irina Bolgar

A lawyer. Yogi. Art lover. Supporting Human rights and Feminism. Based in Switzerland 🇨🇭Mother of 3 children: Leia Durova, Daniel Durov, David Durov.

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Journalists from respected newspapers such as The New York Times, Le Monde, Politico, Libération, and Le Parisien reviewed the facts and evidence provided: photos, official documents, invoices, personal correspondence, and more. They spoke with my lawyers, conducted their own legal analysis, and some, such as Forbes USA, conducted their own journalistic investigations.

Only after this did they publish articles based on my extensive on-record interviews.

Through my social media and in the international press, I am refuting the lies spread by Pavel Durov’s representatives.

The truth is that Pavel Durov was stripped of his parental rights by the Geneva Tribunal after a comprehensive investigation conducted by child protection authorities.

The truth is that criminal cases have been opened against him for child support evasion and physical abuse towards the children.

We are still dealing with the consequences of this abuse on the children’s health.

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At the end of 2022, Pavel Durov assured me that he had never lost an information war.

I have never participated in wars. And I refuse to participate now.

I defending my reputation, my rights and the the rights of our children.

I present facts. And nothing but facts. All my statements are backed by documentation.

False information spread by Durov himself, deliberate lies from his current and former spokesmen, an army of bots with zero-activity accounts leaving hateful comments.

It is a lie that we have never been a couple.

It is a lie that we had a contractual relationship. Show me that contract! I would like to see it.

It is a lie that I spent money intended for the children on myself.

Our expenses, as a billionaire’s family, were indeed high, but everyone was satisfied for 10 years, and all bills were always paid by Pavel personally and voluntarily.

It is a lie that gifts given many years ago suddenly became child support payments for many years into the future.

The last gift was given in 2019, while in 2020, 2021, and 2022, the actual expenses exceeded 3 million euros each year and were paid directly by Durov, and no one mentioning any past gifts.

If Durov was dissatisfied with my spending, why didn’t he reduce the limit on bank cards? Why block everything and say in 2022 that now a gift given in 2019 will be considered alimony?

Why did he disappeared from children’s lives and stopped wishing them on their birthdays?

It was only at the end of 2022 that these past gifts suddenly turned into future child support payments, when financial support for the children was manipulatively cut off, along with the refusal to renew the children’s European documents in an attempt to prevent me from taking legal actions in European courts.
And this is exactly what the preserved personal correspondence confirms.

Now his spokesman is spreading deliberate lies and slander, and his former spokesman is insulting me in public.

Is this what information wars look like?

But the truth remains the truth.

No army of bots, bloggers, or haters can turn lies into truth.

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It’s already clear to everyone that Durov and his spokespeople are lying, claiming that we weren’t a couple, that he never lived with me, and that he paid $2 million in child support back in 2019 to cover all the years ahead.

Now he recalls gifts given to me many years ago and mentions the expenses during all the years of family life, which only illustrate the typical lifestyle of a billionaire family.

But how will his spokespeople explain why he abandoned the children and disappeared, and why I couldn’t reach him even in an emergency?

Why hasn’t he congratulated the children on their birthdays since 2021?

Why, even before the Swiss court stripped him of parental rights, did he already completely disappear from the children’s lives, cutting off all contact?

What was he trying to hide by attempting to force me to move to the UAE with manipulative financial blockages? Why did he blackmail me, promising to resume financial support only if I relocated to the UAE?

How does this align with his current claims that child support was fully paid in 2019 for the children’s entire lives?

Especially since the 2019 transfer labeled as child support didn’t even cover the children’s usual annual expenses.

Why did he threaten to stop financial support and never resume it if I went to court?

The announcement of 100 donor children, the lie about the absence of a family relationship, attempts by his former spokesman to tarnish the memory of my late parents, an army of bots with zero-activity accounts leaving comments that I’m artificial intelligence, a fake, a surrogate mother - how it looks like?

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Look at the situation as a whole. At the end of 2022, Durov warned me that if I went to court, he would stop financial support and our European documents would be annulled, as he refused to sign consent forms for the children.

He gave me an ultimatum, trying to force me to move to the UAE, blackmailing me by promising to resume financial support only if I relocated. It’s clear that in the UAE, I would not have gone to the police or court. I would have kept silent just to have the opportunity to be near my children, as mothers in the UAE have virtually no rights regarding their children.

Of course, I refused. Then Durov blocked everything and disappeared. He didn’t congratulate the children on their birthdays and completely vanished from their lives.

He reappears now, claiming that the $2 million sent as child support in 2019 is the total amount of child support that should be enough until the children finish their university education. Meanwhile, the amount of child support requested in court is almost $6 million per year, and these expenses are backed by attached invoices from previous years.

He is not bothered by the fact that during all 10 years of our family life, I had access to bank accounts, with authorization to spend up to 150,000 euros monthly on bank cards, plus all other expenses were paid by him directly.

Now, he claims that we were never a couple, despite living together from 2013 to 2017 and living separately from 2018 to 2022, but still maintaining a family relationship. Such is the logic of Pavel Durov, who abandoned his children, was stripped of parental rights, does not pay child support, and is involved in a criminal case for physical abuse of the children.

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During my family union with Pavel Durov and our 10-year relationship in an unregistered marriage, in which our three children were born, no significant family assets were registered in my name. I only had access to them through agreements which, while allowing their use, did not fully protect my rights and interests and, as it turned out, could be violated at any time.

Being professional lawyer I have been constantly advising Durov on Telegram matters, as I considered the company our family asset.

I was consistently given assurances and promises, which I sincerely believed, that my children and I would always have access to our family resources, despite the fact that our marriage was not officially registered and the jointly acquired property, including the main asset—Telegram—was registered solely in his name. I also trusted his promises and assurances that trust funds would be created for the children to guarantee their financial security.

Several years were spent searching for expensive real estate that could become a suitable and permanent home for the children, but this property was never purchased for us.

I had notarized, perpetual agreements in my name, granting me access to bank accounts and giving me the right to rent any real estate with Mr. Durov’s obligation to cover the rent without any time limits and without restrictions on the rent amount.

All of our verbal and written agreements were violated by him, and his promises went unfulfilled.

From a legal perspective, in some countries, unregistered relationships are treated as official marriages with regard to property rights. In other countries, there is the possibility of recognizing a de facto marriage as official. In yet others, it is possible to claim a share of jointly acquired property under civil law.

This appears to be a social issue that requires legislative attention, as in a rapidly changing modern world, where the institution of marriage is becoming less relevant, there is an increasing need to provide legal protections for participants in de facto family relationships. And while some countries have already addressed this problem, in others, one must fight for their rights in court.

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The principle of freedom that Durov promotes is broken down by his actions towards me and my freedom as a person, when he does not respect my freedom and infringes on it, manipulating his right to sign consents to extend the valid documents of our children and neglecting the duty to support the children in order to put pressure on me and to force me to act against my will.

If the values that are proclaimed to me do not correspond to the principles in life that guide a person in his actions, then do these values really exist?

I have chosen freedom by giving up the « Dubai golden cage », into which he tried to lure me by promising to continue child support and to maintain the same level of life.

At the end of 2022, Pavel Durov announced an ultimatum to me in order to force me to move to the UAE against my will. At that time, our personal relationship had already been over due to a number of events that took place in 2021-2022.

Durov blocked access to all the cards that I have used for many years for our family expenses. He also stopped paying bills for the children’s expenses that he usually paid directly from his bank accounts, such as for education, travel, medical expenses and others.

When I said that I would defend my rights and the rights of children in the legal field, he refused to sign the consent for the extension of our European immigration documents by children and the registration of new ones. Obviously, to prevent us from staying in Europe.

To my opinion, the ultimatum was announced in order to prevent me from applying to the European courts to protect my rights and the rights of my children.

Next, he blocked the possibility of personal contact.

This is not a fight for material resources or for revenge. This is a fight for human rights. For women’s rights. For the rights of children. I defend my freedom as an inalienable human right and protect the rights of my children to safety and provision for their needs, in accordance with the laws.

I am a free, independent European woman and no one has the right to control my life.

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To the attention of journalists of the world's largest media. Please contact me urgently. I have some important information regarding Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram messenger. I am Irina Bolgar, the mother of three officially recognized children of Pavel Durov.

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To the attention of journalists of the world's largest media. Please contact me urgently. I have some important information regarding Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram messenger. I am Irina Bolgar, the mother of three officially recognized children of Pavel Durov.

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