Stop the Untouchables. Justice for Sergei Magnitsky.

Hedge-fund magnate Browder says if he’s assassinated, you’ll know where to look

Market Watch

Hedge-fund magnate and outspoken Kremlin critic Bill Browder told CNBC on Friday that if he’s ever assassinated, there won”t be much mystery about who was responsible.

“At the moment, nothing keeps me protected…if I get assassinated, everyone will know who did it…It would effectively be a declaration of war with the West if they decide to kill me,” he said.

Browder, the CEO and founder of Hermitage Capital Markets, is an American who has been living in London since being kicked out of Russia in 2007 for accusing tax officials of embezzlement. Browder — a one-time fan of Russian President Vladimir Putin and a grandson of the former leader of the Communist Party U.S.A. — has been on an anti-corruption crusade against the Kremlin since the death of his tax attorney, Sergei Magnitsky, in a Moscow prison. Magnitsky is the namesake of the Magnitsky Act, which U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law last December, and gives the Treasury and State Department authority for cracking down on Russian human-rights abusers. That led Russia to retaliate by banning U.S. citizens from adopting Russian children.