Irina Bolgar, who claims to be the mother of Pavel Durov's three children, has filed lawsuits against him in Switzerland, Forbes reports.
In the lawsuit, which was filed in Geneva in March 2023, Bolgar claimed that Telegram CEO Pavel Durov physically abused one of their children. Shortly thereafter, she filed a civil lawsuit for custody of the child. According to Bolgar's lawyer, Durov did not challenge the court's decision on the custody case, which was made in the woman's favor.
Bolgar filed the lawsuits several months after Pavel Durov stopped paying her alimony in the amount of 150,000 euros per month. The case for non-payment of alimony is still pending.
Earlier, Forbes wrote that Bolgar gave copies of the children's birth certificates, Durov's recognition of paternity, as well as notarized translations of those documents into French and English.
Meanwhile, Pavel Durov's brother, Nikolai Durov, was put on wanted list in France, Politico said.
According to the publication, arrest warrants were issued in France on March 25 for Pavel and Nikolai Durov. This happened after the Paris prosecutor's office's cybercrime department conducted an investigation into child pornography on Telegram.
Nikolai Durov took part in the works to create VKontakte and Telegram social media. He also works as a research fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.