apparently, at the end of august 2024 russian, 4 and telegram founder pat al gerard who had extensive personal contact with nexus was nabbed by french authorities as he landed at paris is liberal j airport on a private plane. so much for the romantic stop over in paris that he had planned with his girlfriends. instead, he was whisked away and charged with complicity and crimes ranging from drug trafficking and broad to pedo criminality. and he's now stuck in france and out on bail pending trial. it's all such a big change from when he was being regularly wined and dined by the french president himself. starting in 2018 mccaul, even personally arrange for durham to get french citizenship in 2021 for services rendered to france, there was reported the talk of moving telegram to france, which never actually had. and so its not even clear which services he rendered to france other than lip service to mac, home over champagne and floods. off, french media outlets and intelligent sources have said that it was considered at seduction operation of sorts to flip unintelligence target that basi