I'm Sarah Kensier, the author of the best-selling books, The View from Flyover Country, and Hiding in Plain Sight.

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine.

And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United States and rising autocracy around the world.

And today we are talking to Bill Browder, the author of the must-read book,

Red Notice. So Bill is joining Gaslit Nation for an important conversation as part of our

Gaslit Nation Summer Reading series, but we're going to play an excerpt of our discussion because it is so

timely, given a lot of big news that has happened in terms of Kremlin aggression and the West's

ongoing weak response. But first, Bill Browder's bio from his website, I'll read from that now,

Bill Browder is the founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, which was the

investment advisor to the largest foreign investment fund in Russia until 2005.

When Bill was denied entry to the country and declared a, quote, threat to national security

as a result of his battle against corporate corruption.

Following his expulsion, the Russian authorities raided his offices,

seized Hermitage funds and investment companies, and used them to steal 230 million of taxes

that the companies had previously paid. When Browder's lawyer, Sergei, Magnitsky, investigated

the crime, he was threatened by the same officers he implicated,

tortured for 358 days, and killed in custody at the age of 37 in November 2009.

Since then, Browder has spent years fighting for justice for Mr. McNitsky. The Russian government

exonerated and even promoted some of the officials involved. So Browder took the case to America, where his campaigning led to U.S. Congress adopting the

Sergei McNitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act in 2012, which imposed visa sanctions and

asset freezes on those involved in the detention, ill-treatment, and death of Sergei McNitsky,

as well as in other human rights abuses.

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