Russia's Most Wanted | Investigation

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4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Bill Browder's fund made billions in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse. But in the new Russia, the cost of doing business could be counted in more than cash. When Bill caught wind of widespread financial corruption in the country, he decided to act - making powerful enemies in the process. Vanessa Kirby unravels a story of money, power and terrible sacrifice. Would YOU challenge the powers that be? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Gemma Newby. Produced by Mariana Des Forges. Music by Nick Ryan. Correction: The original programme stated that Japan, Australia and New Zealand have all passed Magnitsky acts. It has been corrected to reflect that these countries are only debating passing Magnitsky-style acts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Incoming transmission.
0:02.0	Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.
0:08.0	Week by week, mission by mission.
0:12.0	You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.
0:18.0	You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.
0:22.0	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:27.0	And what would you do in their position?
0:31.0	This is True Spies.
0:34.0	For me, it was the most traumatic, shocking, life-changing news I could have ever gotten.
0:40.0	In my worst case scenario, I couldn't have imagined that sort of game like Nitsky would be killed.
0:48.0	Episode 53. Russia's most wanted.
0:58.0	My name is Bill Browder. I'm the CEO of Hermitage Capital Management.
1:02.0	And I'm the head of the Magnitsky Global Justice Campaign.
1:06.0	And for more than a decade, I was the largest foreign investor in Russia,
1:11.0	before I fell out with Putin regime, and became the biggest enemy of Vladimir Putin.
1:17.0	And why was Bill Browder Putin's biggest enemy?
1:21.0	Because I found his killings here. I found the thing that he cares about most,
1:25.0	which is his money and the money of those people close to him.
1:29.0	In the autumn of 2007, a bright young Russian tax adviser,
1:34.0	called Sergei Magnitsky, was hired by Bill Browder to investigate an audacious $230 million tax theft
1:43.0	by Russian state officials, fraudently using his company.
1:48.0	What Sergei discovered went all the way to the highest levels of the Kremlin.
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