Today I'm speaking with Bill Browder.

Bill is the businessman who took on the Russian regime after his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky,

was arrested on false charges and ultimately died in a Russian prison.

Bill's company, Hermitage Capital, was once heavily invested in Russia, but his mission now is to be a

significant and very effective thorn in the side of the monstrous Putin regime. Bill has written a book

called Red Notice. The title refers to notices circulated by Interpol when a country seeks the extradition of a

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

arrest warrant, and the Kremlin briefly tried to use Interpol to get their hands on Browder.

Today, Bill lives and works in London, where he and his family require constant heavy security

in the wake of a horrifying series of financial and other crimes. Bill, thank you for joining me. Great to be here.

This is really the story of Sergei Magnitsky, your lawyer in Russia. But before we turn to that,

can you describe the scheme, the fraudulent scheme that led to Sergei's death in a Russian prison

eight years ago? Well, let me just give you a little context and background. I'm

originally from the United States. I come from a family of American communists. When the Berlin Wall

came down and I was going through my rebellion from my family, I became a capitalist, went to Russia

and began an investment fund in Russia to invest in the Russian stock market.

I encountered massive corruption in the companies that I invested in and started to fight

the corruption by exposing it.

This led to the Putin regime turning very violently against me.

They expelled me from the country.

They raided my offices.

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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