Very strange. TON is a very reputable company, and affiliated with Telegram, or at least it used to, as far as I know. You wouldn't expect them to mess up this way. Either that, or this was communicated very poorly.
I agree, I was caught by that news that it seems a genuine partnership from TON and UAE but it's good that this partnership isn't real. And the authorities are clarifying and denying that there is no such golden visa ticket just by staking $100k worth of TON + processing fee. Well, it's nice that they have made it clear.