The state Department has not commented on the statement Durov of trying to bribe his employees
WASHINGTON, 13 Dec — RIA Novosti, Dmitry Zlatarev. The US state Department did not comment on the statement by the founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov that the us agencies tried to bribe his employees.
“We convey you for explaining to this man (Durova — ed.)” — said Tuesday RIA Novosti the official representative of the state Department.
He Durov had previously written in the microblog in Twitter that last year during a week-long visit to the US programmers from his team tried to bribe employees of American government agencies. The Durov, he said, was pressure from the FBI.
During our team’s 1-week visit to the US last year we had two attempts to bribe our devs by US agencies + pressure on me from the FBI.
— Pavel Durov (@durov) 11 Jun 2017
The U.S. Department of justice and the FBI has not yet responded to requests to RIA Novosti.