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Friday August 27, 1:12 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: KMGI.com
Former Russian Banker Speaks Out on Russiagate, Bank of New York Money Laundering Crisis, Kleptocracy
NEW YORK, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Yesterday, Fox News and the Wall Street Journal introduced a new twist in the unfolding ``Russiagate' controversy: the story of Alexandre Konanykhine. According to the Wall Street Journal, ``Mr. Konanykhine was a whiz-kid physics student who became a pioneering Russian capitalist in the early 1990s, building a banking and investment empire valued at an estimated $300 million -- all by his mid-20s. He was a member of President Boris Yeltsin's inner circle. But he fled Russia in 1992 -- because, he says, corrupt former KGB men and mobsters had muscled into his businesses, looted them and threatened to kill him.'
Seven years after initiating a global campaign denouncing what he called Mafiocracy -- the corruption of Russia's post-Communist, pseudo-Democratic government by former KGB operatives and the Russian Mafia -- Alexandre Konanykhine now sees light at the end of a very long tunnel.
``I'm so happy the world is finally coming to the understanding that what we have in Russia today is by no means Democracy,' he said today in a phone interview from his New York office. ``The unfortunate truth is that the influence of Russian Mafiocracy in America is far-reaching. Not only the Bank of New York and the IMF, but the United States government itself has been a subject of extensive manipulation, as evidenced by the court materials I exhibited on <http://www.mafiocracy.com>.'
Konanykhine continued, ``When Soviet Empire collapsed, people in West rejoiced. They welcomed end of Cold War and most considered new Russia as an ally of America. It is understandable -- everybody loves happy ending. But Russian history is no fairy tale. The same KGB and Communist officials who controlled Soviet Empire control new Russia, and they are as 'friendly' to the West as they were in old Soviet days.'
Konanykhine's campaign against the KGB/Mafia subversion of Russia's fledging democracy resulted in what a U.S. government expert described in his testimony in a federal court as a ``classic KGB disinformation campaign' against Konanykhine. Specifically, KGB successor agencies falsely accused Konanykhine of stealing hundreds of millions from his own bank and other crimes. In 1994, the FBI advised Konanykhine of a contract the Russian Mafia placed on his life. The FBI independently confirmed that in 1992 Konanykhine was kidnapped and, after his escape from these kidnappers, was targeted by the very same Mafia group which is behind the Bank of New York transactions which are now being described as the ``largest money laundering operation in U.S. history.'
The FBI also strongly advised Konanykhine not to disclose his whereabouts to the corrupt Russian prosecutors. Yet, two years later the U.S. policy of appeasement toward the new Russian government resulted in the Department of Justice permitting the very same former KGB officers to search Konanykhine's apartment in Washington's Watergate Complex. Much to his surprise, Konanykhine was jailed for allegedly lying on his visa application -- the only legal pretense under which he could be deported since the U.S. and Russia did not have an extradition treaty.
After a year of unlawful detention, the lead INS prosecutor in his case admitted to the court that the INS had presented false and misleading testimony in the case. Ultimately, the court granted Konanykhine and his wife Elena Gratcheva political asylum, ruling that: ``Based on the testimony and evidence_ the Court now finds that [the Russian government] engineered the case against [Konanykhine] in order to ... punish him for exposing corruption amongst Russian government and business officials.' (The full text of this decision can be found on mafiocracy.com.)
The Konanykhines became the first Russians to be granted asylum from the post-Soviet Russian government on political grounds. A federal court further ruled that the detention of Konanykhine was unlawful and ordered that the INS pay a hundred thousand dollars of compensation for legal fees to Konanykhine's attorneys.
Says Konanykhine, ``I'm afraid we've heard only the beginning of this Russiagate scandal which may become a major factor in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.' He adds, ``Since 1992, I've not been able to keep silent seeing that our hopes for Democracy in Russia were being destroyed by the powerful KGB-Mafia alliance. Even though I lost all my property, was targeted by Mafia assassins and defamed in an elaborate KGB disinformation campaign, I do not regret that seven years ago I started to call attention to what is only now being admitted by the West. It only saddens me that my country lost a unique opportunity to become a Democracy.'
Today, Alexandre Konanykhine is a successful businessman in New York, whose KMGI.com corporation (<http://www.kmgi.com>) pioneered Internet solutions described by industry publications as a ``major breakthrough' and ``the new standard' for online advertising.
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