New York, SAEDNEWS: The post on LinkedIn was accompanied by an image with a picture of Putin and the words "Wanted: Dead or Alive. Vladimir Putin for mass murder." "I promise to pay $1,000,000 to the officer(s) who, complying with their constitutional duty, arrest(s) Putin as a war criminal under Russian and international laws," wrote Konanykhin on LinkedIn. "Putin is not the Russian president as he came to power as the result of a special operation of blowing up apartment buildings in Russia, then violated the Constitution by eliminating free elections and murdering his opponents."
"As an ethnic Russian and a Russian citizen, I see it as my moral duty to facilitate the denazification of Russia. I will continue my assistance to Ukraine in its heroic efforts to withstand the onslaught of Putin's Orda," added the businessman.
The Russian word Orda means "horde", a predatory and plundering gang.
Who is Alex Konanykhin?
According to a 1996 article in The Washington Post, Alex Konanykhin studied at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology before dropping out and opening a student construction cooperative. He then went into other businesses, such as banking, stocks and real estate.
In 1992, with a business empire, his companies were worth some $300 million. He was even part of then Russian President Boris Yeltsin's first delegation to Washington that year.
Konanykhin was arrested in the United States
In 1996, Konanykhin and his wife were detained in the United States by federal immigration agents on charges of violating the terms of their U.S. visas. The case was triggered after Russian authorities claimed that he had embezzled $8 million from the Russian Exchange Bank in Moscow.
The case dragged on for weeks. During the trial, according to the Post, Konanykhin testified that some of his corporate assistants at Russian Exchange Bank pressured him for money and threatened him, which led him to move to Hungary.
In Hungary, they threatened him again with violence, leading him to flee to the Czech Republic and then to New York.
Russian authorities claimed that his version of events was false and that he was only seeking to slander his former employees (Source: MARCA).
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