PANews reported on September 28th that Telegram founder Pavel Durov posted on his personal TG channel that about a year ago, while he was in Paris, French intelligence, through an intermediary, asked him to assist the Moldovan government in censoring some Telegram channels ahead of the presidential election. Durov stated that some channels on the initial list that violated the rules were indeed removed, but the intermediary said that in exchange for French intelligence, he would "put in a good word" with the judge who ordered his arrest. Telegram subsequently received a second list, and almost all of the channels on it were compliant, having been flagged only for expressing positions that differed from those of the French and Moroccan governments. Durov stated that Telegram rejected this request and reiterated that it would not remove content due to political pressure.