According to Durov, this happened when he was looking for funding for the Ton project, and in some countries they tried to block Telegram. Durov then lived in a rented Townhouse and he had a “strange” house neighbor. Once this neighbor left something at the Durov door before he returned home. An hour after Durov returned, it became bad.
“I felt pain all over my body. I tried to get up and go to the bathroom. But while I was going there, my body began to refuse. At first my eyesight and hearing became difficult to breathe. All this was accompanied by very sharp pain. My heart, stomach, all the vessels. It was difficult to explain, but in one thing I was sure:“ That's all, ”said Durov.
According to him, he thought he was dying. Durov said that he woke up on the floor the next day, but felt a strong weakness and could not get up. Vessels burst all over his body.
“I couldn’t walk for two weeks later,” Durov said. According to him, he has perfect health, and nothing of the kind happened to him before.
According to Durov, he then did not tell anything to the members of his team or someone else.
Durov did not specify in which country this happened and whom he suspects of the alleged attempt to poison.
Context
Durov was born in St. Petersburg, in 2021 he received France citizenship, and now he lives in Dubai (UAE), where the main Telegram office is located. He launched the VKontakte social network in 2006, and the encrypted Telegram messenger in 2013.
In 2022, Durov and other entrepreneurs associated with Russia turned to Forbes With a request not to call him a “Russian”. The representative of Durov then noted that “Pavel left Russia many years ago and is not going to return.”
