On August 29, according to the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, Telegram founder Pavel Durov spent more than eight hours in a French court before the Paris prosecutor announced that he could be released on bail. Later, a motorcade drove out of the court building, but it was soon discovered that the Telegram founder himself was not in the car. Eventually, Mr. Durov left the building an hour later, but instead of leaving through the main entrance of the courthouse where the journalists had gathered, he went through a side entrance, where a private minibus was waiting for him, along with security personnel and possibly his lawyer. Before leaving, the entrepreneur donned a baseball cap and sunglasses. He did not comment and quickly boarded the minibus. After the men accompanying Durov carried the items and loaded them into the car, the minibus quickly drove to the Paris ring road.