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WEF 2012: Swiss TV Interview with Bill Browder
Bill Browder von der Hermitage Foundation warnt: Nicht in Russland investieren. Er berichtet von seinen Geschäften in Russland, die das Leben seines Anwalts gekostet haben und ihn selbst um seines fürchten liessen. Die Protest-Bewegungen gegen das Putin-Regime lassen bei ihm die Hoffnung aufkeimen, dass die Menschen die Zustände nicht mehr hinnehmen.
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Russia Plans to Retry Dead Lawyer in Tax Case
The police in Russia plan to resubmit for trial a tax evasion case in which the primary defendant died in detention more than two years ago, his former employer said Tuesday.
The trial of the defendant, Sergei L. Magnitsky, would be the first posthumous prosecution in Russian legal history, according to a statement by the former employer, Hermitage Capital.
The death of Mr. Magnitsky, a lawyer, in November 2009 drew international criticism over Russia’s human rights record, especially after accusations arose that he had been denied proper medical care. The State Department has barred officials linked to Mr. Magnitsky’s prosecutions from entering the United States. Parliaments in nine European countries are considering similar bans.
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Russian Authorities Are Continuing Their Trial Against A Hedge Fund Lawyer — Even Though He Already Died In Prison
Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer for Hermitage Capital, tragically died in Russian custody in 2009, and a somewhat official report last year found that police torture contributed to his death.
However, despite his death, Magnitsky is still on trial.
Ria Novosti reports that the Russian Interior Ministry have told the Magnitsky family that they have concluded an initial investigation and they were ready to submit the case against the late Magnitsky to court.
Magnitsky had been arrested for tax evasion shortly in 2008, not long after he had accused tax and police officials of carrying out a hefty $230-million tax scam. The CEO of Hermitage Capital, William Browder, also faces charges but had fled the country. The case against Browder had reached the statute of limitations but now appears to have been reopened.
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Russia better clean up its act if it wants investment dollars
Russia is opening up and looking to grow, but investors are scared, says Bill Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital Investment. Watch and listen as he and Chrystia Freeland dish in a closed-door session on Russian investment opportunities, held last week in Davos, Switzerland.
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Does the Trail to Magnitsky’s Killers Lead All the Way to the Top?
An interesting bit of news from a Financial Times blog with Davos gossip:
The most gripping exchange came right at the end when Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital – once the biggest foreign investors in Russia and now a bitter critic – asked the panel about the notorious death in police custody of Sergei Magnitsky, his lawyer and auditor.
The response of Igor Shuvalov, the deputy prime minister was – I think – meant to sound reasonable and reassuring. He described the case as “horrendous” and said that some people had already lost their jobs and been charged over it. But it was very difficult to get to the bottom of the case, because the “system” was protecting some guilty people.
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Russia Davos party has unusual opposition flavour
* Russian moderates feel squeezed
* Power can be lost like Gorbachev-Putin deputy
* Kudrin plays key role in Russian Davos delegation
By Dmitry Zhdannikov
DAVOS, Jan 28 (Reuters) – Kremlin clan in-fighting spilled into the open this week when government officials sympathetic with Russia’s fragmented opposition warned the country’s ultimate leader Vladimir Putin he may soon lose power if he doesn’t undertake sweeping reforms.
Putin, Russia’s president from 2000 to 2008 and now prime minister, is expected to return to the presidency after March elections, but is looking increasingly out of touch after the opposition brought tens of thousands of people onto the streets in December to demand a re-run of parliamentary elections.
Putin first dismissed the protesters as chattering monkeys financed from abroad, then backed a proposal from his protégé President Dmitry Medvedev for gradual political reform, but later had a former KGB spy appointed as Kremlin chief of staff.
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Russia Criticized for Corruption at Davos Forum
Russia is hugely represented here at the World Economic Forum.
Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital takes issue with that. “There are so many examples of high level government crime in Russia that it’s almost ridiculous that Russia is allowed to come here as a country displaying its wares. It’s like inviting the Cali drug cartel to Davos.”
Browder was one of the biggest foreign investors in Russia and a vocal anti-corruption campaigner. He was expelled from Moscow in 2005. His offices were raided in 2007. Subsequently his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky was arrested.
Browder says, “he was tortured for 358 days and ultimately killed in prison.”
Magnitsky uncovered $230 million in tax money Browder’s company had paid to the state, but which was ultimately stolen, according to Browder, by tax police who squirreled it away in bank accounts in places like Switzerland.
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Russia, Davos and the rule of law
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Planning to invest in Russia? Here’s a reason to think again, courtesy of our colleague Gideon Rachman, blogging from the World Economic Forum in Davos. Even Igor Shuvalov, Russia’s deputy prime minister (pictured), was unable to give potential investors the assurances they wanted when speaking about the notorious death in custody of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
Shuvalov, himself a lawyer, acknowledged that the case was “horrendous”, but blamed “the system”.
Rachman wrote on Friday in this FT’s Davos liveblog:
The question of what is, or is not, “on the record” at Davos remains a tricky one. Yesterday, I attended a Russia session that I was advertised as “off”. However, there were scores of people in the room, and I later discovered that several had tweeted or blogged about it. Now newspaper accounts are emerging. So let me belatedly join the party.
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Davos rolling blog: day 3
09.15: What happens in Davos stays in Davos… or not? Gideon Rachman attended a session yesterday on Russia, and part of the conversation there – while ostensibly “off the record” – is reverberating outside the meeting room:
The question of what is, or is not, “on the record” at Davos remains a tricky one. Yesterday, I attended a Russia session that I was advertised as “off”. However, there were scores of people in the room, and I later discovered that several had tweeted or blogged about it. Now newspaper accounts are emerging. So let me belatedly join the party.
The most gripping exchange came right at the end when Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital – once the biggest foreign investors in Russia and now a bitter critic – asked the panel about the notorious death in police custody of Sergei Magnitsky, his lawyer and auditor.
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