The founder of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov is liquidating the British company Telegram Messenger LLP, according to an entry in the UK company register. was the first to draw attention to the corresponding entry RBC . According to the documents, Durov asked to remove the company from the register on December 19, 2018.

Telegram Messenger LLP was established in February 2014 by two companies - Dogged Labs Ltd (British Virgin Islands) and Telegraph Inc. (Belize). The British company was registered during a conflict with the UCP fund, which was trying to gain control over the assets of the messenger.

It was Telegram Messenger LLP that appeared in the Roskomnadzor register of information dissemination organizers when the agency required Pavel Durov to provide information to enter it. Despite providing information about the company, Telegram was blocked in Russia by a court decision. The company refused to comply with the FSB's demands to transfer keys to the service to decrypt user messages.

In an interview with Bloomberg in December 2017, Durov said that he was opening a Telegram office in Dubai. users on its website Telegram now tells that it can share their data with two companies that are part of the Telegram group of companies.

This is the parent company of Telegram Group Inc. (British Virgin Islands) and Dubai-based Telegram FZ-LLC.

The same Telegram Group Inc. appeared in documents for ICO investors as the parent company for TON Issuer Inc, which in turn sold the messenger cryptocurrency – Grams. Both of these companies reported to the US Securities and Exchange Commission that they had raised $1.7 billion from investors in two rounds.

Pavel Durov did not respond to Vedomosti’s request at the time of publication of the news.

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