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“The State We’re In – Seeking Justice” – Bill Browder Interview with RNW
A debt of honour
William Browder managed the biggest investment fund in Russian history and it was stolen from him by corrupt government officials. The lawyer for his firm, Sergei Magnitsky, was imprisoned, tortured, and died after one year in custody. Now William is taking up the fight in honour of Sergei’s belief that justice will eventually prevail. займ на карту онлайн онлайн займы zp-pdl.com https://zp-pdl.com/best-payday-loans.php unshaven girls
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Who was Sergei Magnitsky?
Sergei Magnitsky was a humble Moscow lawyer who stumbled across possibly the greatest corporate tax fraud Russia has ever known. It was a discovery that would ultimately cost him his life.
His investigations uncovered a web of alleged corruption involving senior members of the police, judges, officials, lawyers and the Russian mafia. Despite death threats, he refused to leave Russia, instead deciding to probe deeper into the apparent fraud – uncovering two other suspected cases.
One of the policemen he had testified was at the heart of the crime was appointed to investigate him. Magnitsky was subsequently arrested on suspicion of tax avoidance and jailed.
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From Russia with caution
With investors flocking to oil-producing countries, Russia has seen an influx of foreign money flowing into the country—including $2.5 billion US from mutual funds since December. But those investments are not without serious risk, according to Bill Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital.
Browder was at one point the largest foreign investor in the country. But that was before the government tried to seize his assets and allegedly jailed and killed his lawyer.
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Sergei Magnitsky: The struggle for justice
Unlawfully arrested, tortured and murdered in Russian prison, Sergei Magnitsky paid for his fight against corruption in Russia with his life. While the severity of this human rights abuse has grabbed international attention, an even graver concern is that the Russian investigation has stagnated, providing no conclusion, justice or punishment for those involved.
Downing Street’s lack of response to the incident is embarrassing. Sixty Russian officials have been implicated in the unlawful arrest, torture and death of Mr. Magnitsky through international investigations. The European Parliament, US Congress and Canadian Parliament have revoked visa rights and frozen the assets of those involved.
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Measuring Russian Risk
Bill Browder’s Feb. 24 op-ed, “Sergei Magnitsky and the Rule of Law in Russia,” notes Moscow’s attempts to reassure Western investors of Russia’s openness and attractiveness.
But this ignores the hard, cruel reality that the Russian state has become—a gangster film from top to bottom. And as in all gangster movies, the spoils are doled out by the dons and the dons are ever-wary of being knocked off themselves.
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Hermitage Capital Sues Russian Ministry Over Tax Investigation
Hermitage Capital Management, the $1.2 billion hedge fund run by William Browder, sued Russia’s Interior Ministry, accusing it of opening an improper tax investigation that defrauded the government out of $230 million.
Hermitage filed a lawsuit at Russia’s Constitutional Court last month that says the ministry had no justification for opening a 2007 tax probe into a company the hedge fund advised on investments in the country. The probe allowed the ministry to obtain Hermitage documents that were used to steal taxes the London-based hedge fund had paid to the Russian government, Hermitage said in a statement released today.
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Cameron voices concerns over Russian lawyer’s death
The UK has urged the Kremlin to reveal the findings of an investigation into the death in custody of a Russian corporate lawyer who alleged police corruption.
Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer working for Hermitage Capital, a Russian investment fund, died in a Moscow jail in 2009 after testifying against police for alleged complicity in a $230m tax fraud using companies that belonged to his client.
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British PM “concerned” about Russian lawyer death
British Prime Minister David Cameron is “deeply concerned” about the 2009 prison death of a Russian lawyer and has raised the case with Russia’s foreign minister, he said in a letter made public on Wednesday.
Sergei Magnitsky, a 37-year-old lawyer for Russia’s one time biggest equity fund, Hermitage, died in November 2009 after nearly a year in Russian jails.
Colleagues and human rights activists say he was denied adequate medical treatment and subjected to conditions that amounted to torture in a case that has sparked international condemnation and spooked investors.
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David Cameron tackles Russians over Hermitage lawyer death
David Cameron has said he is “deeply concerned” by the death of London-based hedge fund Hermitage Capital’s lawyer in Russian prison in 2009 and has promised to raise the case in on a state visit to the country.
In a letter written to Bill Browder, the boss of Hermitage, which was once Russia’s biggest equity fund, David Cameron said that the mystery surrounding the death of Sergei Magnitsky had “implications for the rule of law and respect for human rights in Russia”.
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