Former partner of Pavel Durov, Roman Novak, initiated a criminal split within the Telegram ecosystem

Former partner of Pavel Durov, Roman Novak, initiated a criminal split within the Telegram ecosystem

11 ноября 2025 г.

Sergey Varchenko

Roman Novak wrote that he had no plans to shut down the project. He explicitly stated in the Fintopio chat on September 27 that he would rebuild the product from scratch "without notcoin, major (Roxman’s brainchild)," and leave the scam and ragpool (fraud) to the Ton crowd.

Novak wrote that he (@delux) was becoming the project’s ambassador, hinting that Durov and his friends had scammed the product. Now he’ll be "at the helm."

Meanwhile, Roman Novak cut himself off in one of the chats: he wrote that he’d already said too much.

It’s worth noting that all of these harsh messages from Roman Novak were deleted in the Fintopio chat. They can be found in a bot that specializes in parsing messages from public Telegram chats.

Under pressure from the news and circumstances, Roxman commented very cautiously on the situation, distancing himself from his friend and partner:

"Regarding @novak , who was on our wall and told us various stories, I’ll also add a few words of my own. A little over a year ago, we met in a chat for number and username holders. Then I offered him the username @miniapp —he’d already bought @webapp and others before, and that’s how we started talking.