The Death of Sergei Magnitsky
Bribe, Swindle or Steal
Alexandra Addison-Wrage of TRACE International
4.9 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital describes the brazen fraud and violence of Putin's Russia.
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| 0:00.0 | Today I'm speaking with Bill Browder. |
| 0:07.0 | Bill is the businessman who took on the Russian regime after his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, |
| 0:13.0 | was arrested on false charges and ultimately died in a Russian prison. |
| 0:17.0 | Bill's company, Hermitage Capital, was once heavily invested in Russia, but his mission now is to be a |
| 0:23.7 | significant and very effective thorn in the side of the monstrous Putin regime. Bill has written a book |
| 0:29.6 | called Red Notice. The title refers to notices circulated by Interpol when a country seeks the extradition of a |
| 0:35.8 | criminal. They function a bit like an international arrest warrant, and the Kremlin briefly tried to use Interpol to a country seeks the extradition of a criminal. They function a bit like an international |
| 0:38.0 | arrest warrant, and the Kremlin briefly tried to use Interpol to get their hands on Browder. |
| 0:43.2 | Today, Bill lives and works in London, where he and his family require constant heavy security |
| 0:48.2 | in the wake of a horrifying series of financial and other crimes. Bill, thank you for joining me. Great to be here. |
| 0:55.3 | This is really the story of Sergei Magnitsky, your lawyer in Russia. But before we turn to that, |
| 1:01.0 | can you describe the scheme, the fraudulent scheme that led to Sergei's death in a Russian prison |
| 1:07.7 | eight years ago? Well, let me just give you a little context and background. I'm |
| 1:11.8 | originally from the United States. I come from a family of American communists. When the Berlin Wall |
| 1:18.0 | came down and I was going through my rebellion from my family, I became a capitalist, went to Russia |
| 1:23.6 | and began an investment fund in Russia to invest in the Russian stock market. |
| 1:28.9 | I encountered massive corruption in the companies that I invested in and started to fight |
| 1:33.8 | the corruption by exposing it. |
| 1:35.7 | This led to the Putin regime turning very violently against me. |
| 1:40.5 | They expelled me from the country. |
| 1:41.9 | They raided my offices. |
| 1:47.0 | The police seized all of the documents from our offices, and then those documents were used to fraudulently re-register our |
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