The founder and CEO of popular instant messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, reportedly plans to leave his nearly $14 billion fortune to 100 children from 12 countries he is said to have fathered.

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

According to the report, Mr Durov noted that of the more than 100 children, he’s the “official father” to six by three separate women, with the others coming via way of surrogacy he notes stating the clinic “where I started donating sperm fifteen years ago to help a friend, told me that more than 100 babies had been conceived this way in 12 countries.”

He also reiterated that he denied any wrongdoing in connection with serious criminal charges he faces in France. There is, however, a caveat to the arrangement as his children won’t be able to access the trust fund until 2055.

“I want them to live like normal people, to build themselves up alone, to learn to trust themselves, to be able to create, not to be dependent on a bank account,” he said.

The tech entrepreneur who has been embroiled in a legal battle fighting various charges, including drug trafficking, child sexual abuse, notes that he had written a will now because his job involved “risks – defending freedoms earns you many enemies, including within powerful states”.

Charges for which he has vehemently maintained his innocence.

Telegram, known for its emphasis on privacy and its strongly encrypted messaging, has over a billion monthly active users.