Alex Konanykhin, a Russian investor and TV personality, is currently making headlines after reportedly offering a $1 million bounty to anyone who captures Russian president, Vladimir Putin and fans are eager to know his net worth.
Alex Konanykhin is an entrepreneur and former banker who was born Alexander Pavlovich Konanykhin on September 25, 1966. Toward the end of the communist government in Russia, he began his career by founding a private bank.
Konanykhin and his wife left Russia in 1992 and were awarded political asylum in the United States seven years later. In 2004, the asylum grants were revoked, but they were reinstated in 2007.
He spent most of his commercial career in the United States, being a citizen of Italy, Russia, and Argentina.
Alex Konanykhin Net Worth Is More Than $300 Million In Fortune And Earnings
The net worth of the Russian entrepreneur, Alex Konanykhin is estimated to be more than $300 million in fortune and earnings. He has founded companies like KMGi Group and TransparentBusiness.
Konanykhin founded, co-owned, and served as President of the Russian Exchange Bank, which was the first institution to be granted a currency-trading license by the Yeltsin government in 1991.
He was one of the delegates who traveled with Yeltsin to Washington, D.C., in 1992, to meet with President George H. W. Bush, and then to Canada to meet with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
With an estimated net worth of $300 million, Alex was ranked the wealthiest person in Russia by Richard Sakwa in 1991. By the time he was twenty-five years old, he had founded over a hundred different businesses in Russia.
Alex Konanykhin: $1 Million Putin Bounty
Alex Konanykhin has placed a $1 million bounty on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s head, requesting Russian military officers to arrest him as a war criminal.
“I pledge to give $1,000,000 to the officer(s) who, in performing their constitutional duties, arrest(s) Putin as a war criminal under Russian and international laws,” crypto investor and California businessman Alex Konanykhin stated on Wednesday in a Facebook post.
Putin had broken the Russian constitution, according to Konanykhin, by “eliminating free elections” and “murdering his opponents.”
Alex Konanykhin Wife and Career Earnings
The name of the late wife of Alex Konanykhin is Elena Gratcheva. His career earnings and fortune is estimated to be over $300 million.
The Hunted (ISBN 0-446-19559-6), a novel by Brian Haig, is based on the lives of Alex Konanykhin and Elena Gratcheva. The book is dedicated to Gratcheva, who passed away recently.
Federal immigration officers detained Konanykhin and his wife in the United States in 1996, accusing them of breaking the terms of their visas. Russian police accused him of embezzling $8 million from the Russian Exchange Bank in Moscow, which sparked the investigation.