Alex Konanykhin

Russian-born entrepreneur Alex Konanykhin offered $1 million to any military officer who catches Russian President Vladimir Putin "dead or alive" for ...

During the trial, Konanykhin had testified that some of his corporate aides at the Russian Exchange Bank began pressurising him for money and issued threats. Konanykhin, who studied at the Moscow Physics and Technical Institute, entered into several businesses, including banking, stocks and real estate. “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 Facebook.

In a social media post, Russian entrepreneur Alex Konanykhin said that the Russian president came to power by "blowing up apartment buildings in Russia.”

It stinks," according a report by the Moscow Times. He was granted asylum again in 2007. Just a few years later, however, the Board of Immigration Appeals revoked the political asylum and ordered that he be deported. A settlement was eventually reached and he was freed from detention and eventually granted political asylum. Russian authorities claimed that his version of events was fake and aimed to slander his former employees. The case was seemingly sparked after Russian authorities claimed that he embezzled $8 million from the Russian Exchange Bank in Moscow. He was even a part of then-Russian president Boris Yeltsin's first delegation to Washington that year.

WASHINGTON (TND) — A $1 million bounty has been placed on Russian President Vladimir Putin by entrepreneur Alex Konanykhin after the invasion of Ukraine.

In 1996, while living in America, Konanykhin and his wife were arrested by federal immigration agents for allegedly violating conditions of their American visas, according to the 1996 WaPo report. Vladimir Putin for mass murder." By 1991, he was the founder, co-owner, and president of the Russian Exchange Bank, and by 1992, he was reportedly called the "wealthiest person in Russia."

Alex Konanykhin has offered $1 million for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes committed during the invasion of Ukraine.

It was eventually reinstated in 2007. Vladimir Putin for mass murder.” In his initial post, Konanykhin claimed that “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.”