Pavel Durov claimed on Twitter on Wednesday that US bureaus made two attempts to bribe his developers while they were on a one-week trip to the US last year. He also insisted that the FBI put pressure on him personally.
“During our team’s 1-week stay in the US last year we had two attempts to bribe our developers by US agencies and pressure on me from the FBI,” Durov wrote on Twitter. “It would be naive to think you can run an independent/secure crypto app based in the US,” he added in another tweet.