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Alex Konanykhin said in posts on Facebook and LinkedIn that he would pay the money for the ‘arrest of Putin as a war criminal under international laws’
Konanykhin claimed that Putin was not the President of Russia because he ‘murdered his opponenets’.
The post included a mocked up poster which read: ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive. Vladimir Putin. For Mass Murder’.
After Facebook banned the post, Konanykhin insisted he was not asking for people to kill Putin and wanted him ‘brought to justice’.
Konanykhin’s offer came a week after Putin approved the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has led to the deaths of more than 2,000 Ukrainian civilians.
Konanykhin, 55, is a wealthy entrepreneur who served on a Russian delegation to the US in 1992 under its then President Boris Yeltsin.
But he fell out with the Kremlin after it accused him of embezzling $8m from the Russian Exchange Bank in Moscow and he was granted asylum to stay in the US in 2007.
In the post on LinkedIn, Konanykhin wrote: ‘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.
‘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’.
After the story was reported on - and Facebook banned the post - Konanykhin further explained himself.
He said: ‘Some reports suggest that I promised to pay for the assassination of Putin. It is NOT correct. While such an outcome would be cheered by millions of people around the world, I believe that Putin must be brought to justice’.
- Russian businessman Alex Konanykhin has offered a $1 million bounty for Vladimir Putin’s arrest - by posting a ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive’ poster online
- Konanykhin, 55, said in posts on Facebook and LinkedIn that he would pay the money for the ‘arrest of Putin as a war criminal under international laws’
- After the story Facebook banned the post - Konanykhin further explained himself.
- He said: ‘Some reports suggest that I promised to pay for the assassination of Putin. It is NOT correct'
- 'While such an outcome would be cheered by millions of people around the world, I believe that Putin must be brought to justice’
- Konanykhin is a wealthy entrepreneur who served on a Russian delegation to the US in 1992 under its then President Boris Yeltsin
- Konanykhin’s offer came a week after Putin approved the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has led to the deaths of more than 2,000 Ukrainian civilians
Alex Konanykhin said in posts on Facebook and LinkedIn that he would pay the money for the ‘arrest of Putin as a war criminal under international laws’
Konanykhin claimed that Putin was not the President of Russia because he ‘murdered his opponenets’.
The post included a mocked up poster which read: ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive. Vladimir Putin. For Mass Murder’.
After Facebook banned the post, Konanykhin insisted he was not asking for people to kill Putin and wanted him ‘brought to justice’.
Konanykhin’s offer came a week after Putin approved the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has led to the deaths of more than 2,000 Ukrainian civilians.
Konanykhin, 55, is a wealthy entrepreneur who served on a Russian delegation to the US in 1992 under its then President Boris Yeltsin.
But he fell out with the Kremlin after it accused him of embezzling $8m from the Russian Exchange Bank in Moscow and he was granted asylum to stay in the US in 2007.
In the post on LinkedIn, Konanykhin wrote: ‘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.
‘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’.
After the story was reported on - and Facebook banned the post - Konanykhin further explained himself.
He said: ‘Some reports suggest that I promised to pay for the assassination of Putin. It is NOT correct. While such an outcome would be cheered by millions of people around the world, I believe that Putin must be brought to justice’.
