Welcome back to the podcast, Brib, Swindle, or Steel.

I'm Alexandra Rogge, and today I'm catching up with a guest from earlier in the year,

as there have been some new developments.

Bill Browder owns the Hermitage Hedge Fund, which was once heavily invested in Russia.

After a trip back to London, Bill was

denied re-entry to Russia. His company was ultimately seized by criminal elements in Russia and his

lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was imprisoned and died in prison in 2009, after being denied urgently

needed medical care. He had been severely beaten.

Bill has been leading international efforts to get some sort of justice for Magnitsky ever since

and has infuriated Putin in the process.

Bill and I spoke at length on this podcast back in June,

but we're catching up now on more recent developments.

Bill, thank you so much for joining me again.

Great to be here. A lot has happened since we spoke earlier this year and you've been busy.

Why don't we start with the new Canadian law? The Canadians passed the justice for victims of

corrupt foreign officials act, which is also being called the Sergei Magnitsky Law, and it received

royal assent, which is the final step for a law to come into force in Canada on October 19th.

Can you give us a little bit of background on that law and how it might differ from the U.S. law,

if at all?

First of all, that law took a lot longer to get past than the U.S. law.

We started the Canadian political process at the same time we started the U.S. political process.

The U.S. process took two years from 2010 to 2012 to become law.

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