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Anonymous ID: b44f2c March 2, 2022, 7:52 p.m. No.15768925   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8939 >>8941 >>8945 >>8997 >>9000 >>9031 >>9068

https://news.yahoo.com/russian-businessman-places-1m-bounty-231620021.html

 

Russian businessman places $1m bounty on Vladimir Putin’s head

 

Wed, March 2, 2022, 5:16 PM

 

A Russian businessman has placed a $1m bounty on Vladimir Putin’s head and urged the country’s military officers to bring the president to justice.

 

Entrepreneur Alex Konanykhin made the promise in a post on social media site LinkedInand called it his “moral duty” to take action and help Ukraine following the unprovoked attack.

 

“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 Mr Konanykhin.

 

“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.”

 

His post included a photo of Mr Putin, with the caption, “Wanted: Dead or alive. Vladimir Putin for mass murder.”

 

And he added: “As an ethnic Russian and a Russia 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.”

 

The word “Orda” is Russian for “horde.”

 

Mr Konanykhin has a complicated history with the Russian government, and in 1996 was arrested while living in the US after Russian authorities claimed he had embezzled $8m from the Russian Exchange Bank.

 

FBI agents testified that the Russian mafia had taken out a contract on Mr Konanykhin, and the case was settled and he was granted political asylum.

 

His asylum was revoked several years later, but his deportation was eventually cancelled by US District Judge T S Ellis, who overruled it, who said that a decision to return him to Moscow “stinks”.

 

Mr Konanykhin’s reference to blowing up buildings relates to a conspiracy theory that the Russian intelligence service, the FSB – which Mr Putin was head of from 1998 to 1999 – was responsible for explosions in four apartment blocks in 1999 which killed about 300 people. The attacks, blamed on Chechen terrorists, helped spark the Second Chechen War, which itself helped consolidate Mr Putin’s popularity in Russia. He became prime minister in 1999 and was named acting president on the last day of the year, subsequently being elected to a full term the following March.

 

The theory was expounded among others by former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was assassinated in London in 2006 – apparently by Russian agents – using the radioactive isotope polonium-210.

Anonymous ID: b44f2c March 2, 2022, 8:05 p.m. No.15769031   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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>Entrepreneur Alex Konanykhin

 

https://konanykhin.com/articles/the-russian-founder-of-a-new-york-based-software-startup-called-transparentbusiness-inc-has-drawn.html

 

Russian Software Entrepreneur Draws Backing Through Specialty Offering

 

The Russian founder of a New York-based software startup called TransparentBusiness Inc. has drawn backing from Fortune 500 executives through a relatively new type of securities offering called 506(c) as part of an effort to raise $10 million this year.

 

Alex Konanykhin, CEO of TransparentBusiness, said he decided to reach out directly to accredited investors by purchasing ads in financial publications. One particularly bold ad includes the figure, 90,000%, with a question mark next to it.

 

Konanykhin said the ad speaks to the large market opportunity for his company's software, which helps governments eliminate fraud by verifying billable hours charged by outside contractors…

 

Thus far, TransparentBusiness Inc. has raised about $500,000 under the 506(c) offering plus an earlier round of about $1.5 million through a convertible offering. It's currently offering 10 percent of the company for $10 million, with a minimum investment of $50,000.

 

The company's investors in the convertible offering include: … Ken Arredondo, former President of CA Technologies and a TransparentBusiness. board member ($150,000); Jorge Titinger, former CEO of SGI ($100,000); Ximena Querol, CEO of Sector3 Social Venture Group ($125,000) and Andrew Winn, former portfolio manager at BarclaysGlobal Investments and now senior vice president of TransparentBusiness ($110,000).

 

One of the investors, Ken Arredondo, told The Deal he invested in TransparentBusiness and agreed to serve on its board of directors because of the company's strong management team and the huge market opportunity to increase transparency of outsourced contracts worldwide. He believes in the company's product and said it's unique.

 

"It's a Saas-based, easy-to-use tool," he said. "There are a lot of technology players out there that are a lot bigger, but none of them have what they have. There will be competition, but they have the product now. They have first-mover advantage.

 

Arredondo plans to keep his investment in the company for at least two to five years. By then, the company could be large enough for an IPO or a sale.

 

A 506(c) offering, unlike other private offerings such as private-investments-in-public-equity, or PIPE deals, don't carry the same restrictions around the marketing of private offerings. The 2012 JOBS Act laid the foundation for these offerings, to allow more public marketing around private offerings to stimulate investment and economic growth.

 

Konanykhin said some U.S. states are in the process of introducing legislation to monitor billable hours, which would mandate the use of TransparentBusiness's software as the only platform available to do this.

 

The passage of any of the bills would drive new business at the company, which uses block chain technology in its software to track billable hours.

 

Konanykhin has led the company since 2015, said the 506(c) offering and accompanying ads will help raise the brand profile of the company and help it reach out to more state and local governments.

 

It's not his first business, by a long shot.He was once known as the Russian Bill Gates as Russia privatized under Boris Yeltsin.