Telegram founder Pavel Durov has revealed he will leave his entire $13.9 billion (£10.3bn) fortune to more than 100 children he says he has fathered, according to an interview with Le Point.

“They are all my children and will all have the same rights,” Durov told the French political magazine. “I don’t want them to tear each other apart after my death.”

Durov, 40, stated that he is officially the father of six children from three different women, but said a fertility clinic informed him that over 100 children were conceived from his sperm donations over the past 15 years, spanning 12 countries.

The tech mogul, who has lived in self-exile from Russia and is currently facing serious criminal charges in France— which he denies— said the heirs will not access their inheritance for 30 years.

“I want them to live like normal people… to build themselves up alone,” he said, citing the dangers of his work defending digital freedoms.

Telegram, the encrypted messaging platform he founded, now has over a billion monthly active users.