Legal Times
September 1, 1997
A settlement agreement between the district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and Alexandre Konanykhine made the long-jailed Russian banker a free man on Aug. 26, and the Justice Department has indicated that the INS lawyers who sought to keep him behind bars will themselves be investigated.
Read moreThe Washington Weekly
September 1, 1997
A Virginia federal judge last week ordered the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility to investigate allegations of DOJ wrongdoing that surfaced during a hearing in his courtroom in July.
Read moreThe Washington Weekly
August 25, 1997
When Alexandre Konanykhine tried to escape the Russian Mafia, he thought himself safe in the United States. What he didn't count on was that the Russian Mafia has contacts in the U.S. Justice Department who are more than willing to bend the law...
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August 22, 1997
WASHINGTON, DC, USA - August 22, 1997 (FPS) -- The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) on Thursday agreed to pay $100,000 compensation in Alexandre P. Konanykhine Habeas Corpus case. Other compensations will be discussed starting next week. Konanykhine points out: "The KGB manipulation is getting expensive to the U.S. taxpayers." In the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, he had filed a Petition in March 1997 for issuance of Writ of Habeas Corpus of appropriate relief of unlawful detention and prosecution, due to: unlawful arrest, malicious prosecution, malicious abuse of legal process by Respondent, abuse of discretion by Respondent, willful misrepresentation of material facts by Respondent and his agents (perjury and fraud), and an array of due process and Constitutional violations.
Read moreInterpreter Releases
August 4, 1997
In 73 Interpreter Releases 1214 (Sept. 16, 1996), we reported on an unusual and complicated case, Konanykhine v. Carroll, Civil Action No. 96-1085-A (E.D. Va. Aug. 16, 1996). The petitioner, Alexandre P. Konanykhine, was a successful entrepreneur in Russia, but flee when he allegedly began to receive threats from corrupt elements both within and outside his business.
Read moreThe Winchester Star
August 4, 1997
A deportation order against a Russian millionaire accused of embezzling money from a Moscow bank has been dropped. Alexandre P. Konanykhine (Koh-nen-EE-kin), who was held at the Regional Jail in Frederick County for most of the 13-month period he was imprisoned by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said his appeal of the deportation order was scheduled to be heard lase week.
Read moreLegal Times
July 28, 1997
It was bad enough for the Immigration and Naturalization Service that it lost its yearlong battle last week to keep a Russian banker behind bars while he fights deportation. By week's end, the INS itself, as well as a high-ranking agency lawyer, had fallen under scrutiny over its handling of the case. It was facing a barrage of ethics allegations from the onetime INS prosecutor on the case and from a former KGB agent who consulted on the matter—charges that seem to have captured the attention of a U.S. district judge in Virginia.
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