Telegram founder offers free use of his sperm to would-be mothers to conceive a child after pledging to leave £17bn fortune to his ‘106 children’

A Moscow fertility clinic is offering would-be mothers the chance to conceive a child by, Pavel Durov, one of Russia’s most successful entrepreneurs for free.

 Durov, the billionaire founder of messaging platform Telegram, has fathered six children with three different partners. But the 40-year-old is believed to have around 100 more after he donated sperm on a mass scale to dozens of couples in 12 different countries. 

AltraVita IVF clinic, a facility located in Moscow’s southwestern Akademicheskaya region also disclosed that the tech tycoon will finance the whole procedure.

‘Pavel Durov is willing to finance all the IVF protocols that use his sperm. It is a very generous contribution to society from someone who wants to help those dreaming of becoming parents,’ the offer on AltraVita’s website reads.

Speaking to Russia’s RTVI outlet, AltraVita CEO Sergei Yakovenko – also an associate professor of biophysics at the prestigious Moscow State University – confirmed the offer is real and explained he was a long-time friend of the Telegram founder.

In an interview this week with France’s Le Point magazine, the tech mogul declared he plans to leave his £17 billion fortune to all of his offspring, adding that he saw no difference between the children he conceived naturally and those who came from sperm donations. 

‘They are all my children and will all have the same rights’, Durov said. ‘I don’t want them to tear each other apart after my death.’ 

But none of them will get any cash for 30 years, he added.

‘I want them to live like normal people, to build their lives on their own, to learn to trust themselves, to be able to create – not to be dependent on a bank account’.