{"id":127,"date":"2024-12-24T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksokolovarchive.wordpress.com\/2026\/02\/24\/all-for-one-zhang-sokolov-and-swint-interlinked-networks-in-finance-and-acquisitions\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T17:37:00","slug":"all-for-one-zhang-sokolov-and-swint-interlinked-networks-in-finance-and-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksokolovarchive.cc\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"All for One: Zhang, Sokolov, and Swint \u2013 Interlinked Networks in Finance and Acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>December, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zhe Zhang <\/strong>(China-based entrepreneur, founder &amp; CEO of <strong>SIFT Capital Partners Limited<\/strong> in Hong Kong) served as delegated external portfolio manager for <strong>Halcon Innovation Fund<\/strong> (a sub-fund of <strong>Halcon Investment SICAV<\/strong>, managed by ONE Funds AG in Liechtenstein) until March 2023. This fund held significant economic exposure to AMIO Bank (Armenia), with indirect 75% ownership via complex structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"869\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/ksokolovarchive.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1-5.png?w=869\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksokolovarchive.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1-5.png 869w, https:\/\/ksokolovarchive.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1-5-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/ksokolovarchive.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1-5-768x513.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 869px) 100vw, 869px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Zhe Zhang is also Chairman &amp; CEO of <strong>Alpha Star Acquisition Corporation<\/strong> (a US-listed SPAC, ticker ALSAF), where <strong>Konstantin Sokolov<\/strong> (Russian\/Swiss-linked investor, founder of Gotthard Investment AG) served as an independent director from incorporation (2021) until his resignation in October 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Patrick Swint<\/strong> (US\/UK-based, private equity and military background) joined Alpha Star Acquisition as an independent director in October 2022 (replacing Sokolov in some contexts) and has served as a non-executive Board Member of <strong>AMIO Bank<\/strong> CJSC (Armenia) since June 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Interconnections summary<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>SIFT \/ Zhe Zhang<\/strong> \u2192 Managed Halcon Innovation Fund (exposure to AMIO Bank) pre-2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Zhe Zhang + Konstantin Sokolov<\/strong> \u2192 Linked through Alpha Star Acquisition (Zhang as CEO, Sokolov as early director; both tied to acquisition\/investment deals).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Zhe Zhang + Konstantin Sokolov \u2192 linked through ownership of <strong>Fedilco Group Limited<\/strong>, shareholder of VIVA Armenia<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Patrick Swint<\/strong> \u2192 Bridges Alpha Star (director) and AMIO Bank (board member since 2022), overlapping with Halcon&#8217;s economic interest in the same bank.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These connections form a web of delegated management, SPAC governance, and board-level involvement in Armenian banking and alternative investments \u2014 a classic &#8220;all for one&#8221; network across jurisdictions (Liechtenstein, Hong Kong, US, Armenia, Switzerland). No single joint entity or transaction binds all three directly, but their paths cross through Alpha Star and AMIO\/Halcon interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December, 2024 Zhe Zhang (China-based entrepreneur, founder &amp; CEO of SIFT Capital Partners Limited in Hong Kong) served as delegated external portfolio manager for Halcon Innovation Fund (a sub-fund of Halcon Investment SICAV, managed by ONE Funds AG in Liechtenstein) until March 2023. This fund held significant economic exposure to AMIO Bank (Armenia), with indirect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksokolovarchive.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksokolovarchive.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksokolovarchive.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksokolovarchive.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksokolovarchive.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ksokolovarchive.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksokolovarchive.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksokolovarchive.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksokolovarchive.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}