{"id":28980,"date":"2025-05-28T11:46:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T11:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28980"},"modified":"2025-05-28T11:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T11:46:44","slug":"telegram-raises-1-5b-in-bond-sale-despite-ceos-legal-battle-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28980","title":{"rendered":"Telegram Raises $1.5B In Bond Sale Despite CEO&#8217;s Legal Battle In France"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Despite its CEO being barred from leaving France due to a criminal investigation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/content\/45029479\/telegram-signal-copier-launches-version-5-1-with-powerful-new-features\">messaging platform <strong>Telegram<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">TON<\/a>) is set to raise at least $1.5 billion through a new bond sale, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>The funding round, expected to be finalized Wednesday, signals investor confidence in the platform&#8217;s financial trajectory and user base, even as its founder, <strong>Pavel Durov<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/24\/09\/40893281\/telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-faces-10-year-sentence-and-500k-fine-in-frances-first-cybercrime-case-under\">faces legal scrutiny abroad<\/a>, The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/finance\/telegram-set-to-raise-1-5-billion-in-bond-issue-despite-ceos-legal-woes-053284f0\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>French prosecutors have charged Durov preliminarily with failing to assist in investigations involving illicit activity, including child exploitation, on the Telegram platform. <\/p>\n<p>Both Durov and the company maintain they&#8217;ve complied with all enforceable legal requests. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We complied with all the binding legal requests we received. So up until this day, we don&#8217;t understand what we did wrong,&#8221; Durov said via &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/05\/45640709\/telegram-raises-1-5b-in-bond-sale-despite-ceos-legal-battle-in-france\" alt=\"Telegram\" raises in bond sale despite ceo legal battle france>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite its CEO being barred from leaving France due to a criminal investigation, messaging platform Telegram (CRYPTO: TON) is set to raise at least $1.5 billion through a new bond sale, according to a report. The funding round, expected to be finalized Wednesday, signals investor confidence in the platform&#8217;s financial trajectory and user base, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-28980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}