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Also see: Magnitsky
Act; Rinat Akhmetshin;
Undated:
William Felix Browder
(born 23 April 1964)[1]
is an American-born British financier and economist. He is the
CEO and co-founder of
Hermitage Capital Management, an
investment fund that at one time was the largest foreign portfolio investor
in Russia.[2]
He gave up his U.S. citizenship in 1998 to avoid paying taxes related to foreign
investment.[3]
After having business in Russia for ten years, Browder was refused entry to
Russia in 2005 as a threat to national security; he has said it was because he
exposed corruption.
After the death in prison in 2009 of
Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer and auditor who had represented his
company and conducted an investigation into massive tax fraud related to it,
Browder lobbied for Congress to pass the
Magnitsky Act, a law to punish Russian human rights violators, which was
signed into law in 2012 by President
Barack
Obama.[4][5]
In 2013, Browder was tried in absentia in Russia for tax fraud, jointly in a
posthumous prosecution of Magnitsky.[citation
needed] He was convicted and sentenced to nine years in
prison.
Interpol rejected Russian requests to arrest Browder, saying the case was
political. In 2014, the
European Parliament voted for sanctions against 30 Russians believed
complicit in the Magnitsky case; this was the first time it had taken such
action.
In July 2017, Browder testified to the
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Russia's alleged interference in the
2016 U.S. presidential election through use of persons in Washington, D.C.
On October 21, 2017, as part of a criminal conviction for tax evasion,[7]
the Russian government attempted to place Browder on
Interpol's
arrest list. After a protest by U.S. Congressional leaders, his visa was
restored the following day.[8]
Russia's arrest-warrant request was rejected by Interpol on October 26, 2017.[7]
While visiting Spain in May 2018, Browder was arrested on 30 May 2018 by Spanish
authorities on a new Russian Interpol warrant and transferred to an undisclosed
Spanish police station,[9]
yet he was released two hours later, after Interpol confirmed that this was a
political case.[10]
On July 27, 2017, Browder testified to the
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Russia's alleged interference in the 2016
U.S. presidential election in regards to the
Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and
Fusion GPS.
The latter is the
opposition research firm based in
Washington D.C. that commissioned former
MI6 staffer
Christopher Steele to collect information on
Donald
Trump's ties with Russia. The hearing was set up to examine the firm's
separate work on a legal case involving the Magnitsky Act. He directly discussed
the President of Russia Vladimir Putin. Browder testified that President Putin
is "the biggest oligarch in Russia and the richest man in the world", building a
fortune by threatening Russian oligarchs and getting a 50% cut of their profits:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Browder
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