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Hermitage Capital Sues Russian Ministry Over Tax Investigation

Bloomberg

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.