A Russian businessman, Alex Konanykhin, offers a million dollar bounty to “any police officer who, fulfilling his constitutional duty, arrests Putin as a war criminal under Russian and international law.”
Konanykhin wrote on LinkedIn that “Putin is not the Russian president since he came to power as a result of a special operation of apartment building explosions in Russia, he then violated the Constitution by eliminating free elections and killing his opponents.”
On his Facebook page, the businessman posted a post in which Putin appears on a Wild West-style poster with the caption “Wanted Dead or Alive”. The post, he writes image online, it didn’t last long before being deleted from Facebook. According to Konanykhin, this was probably due to the wording “Dead or Alive”, but he, he added, wrote “arrest”.
Who is Konanykhin
Konanykhin began his career by founding a private bank in Russia towards the end of the communist regime and, writes the Jerusalem Post, has a turbulent history with the Russian authorities. In 1992, his companies were worth around $ 300 million. In the same year, however, he left Russia with his wife and seven years later he obtained political asylum in the United States, where despite a series of legal vicissitudes, he spent most of his entrepreneurial career. «As a Russian citizen of Russian ethnicity – he wrote in his post – 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 resist the onslaught of Putin’s horde ”.