Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

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Having taken it by force, he keeps it, for the time being, by an ever-readiness to be more savage than anyone else, by always pushing further, demanding more. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)'s office actively promoted the screening, sending out invitations from the office of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats, which Rohrabacher chaired at the time; he was described by The Daily Beast as "a long-standing Russia ally". He said that purchasing Gazprom shares was an investment in the Russian economy, and the desire to influence the Gazprom management was driven by the need to expose a "huge fraud going on at the company". Bill Browder’s new book on the Magnitsky affair follows the money all the way to the top of Russia’s murderous kleptocracy.

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In April 2014, the European Parliament unanimously passed a resolution to impose sanctions on more than 30 Russians complicit in the Magnitsky case; the first time in the parliament's history that a vote was held to establish a public sanctions list. In the final chapters, as part of investigation into a European bank, he puts a top-line figure on the total flow of Russian corrupt proceeds flowing out, on the figure for money stolen from ordinary Russians by a broken, illicit regime, and it is staggering. Every news outlet—ABC, Sky News, the BBC, CNN, Time, the Washington Post—all of them wanted to know what was going on. He has been quoted as saying: "You had to become a shareholder activist if you didn't want everything stolen from you".Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, was one of the leading investors in Russia during the 2000s, and his strategy of “stealing analysis” made Hermitage one of the leading hedge funds in the world. Bill Browder second book is a worthy follow-up to Red Notice, his chronicle of his life and times investing in Russia before coming up against the modern Russian kleptocracy (to borrow from William Gibson’s “The Peripheral” and “Agency”: the klept). In December 2012 President Obama signed into law the Magnitsky Act which had passed Congress with broad bi-partisan support.

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Putin has asserted that the Russians are different, that they have not been corrupted by western values, carry on the true orthodox Christian religion. In March 2013, HSBC, a bank that serves as the trustee and manager of Hermitage Capital Management, announced that it would end the fund's operations in Russia. When Bill Browder’s young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life’s mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice.

Kleptocracy is a fashionable tag: let’s say instead that Putin’s Russia, a territory brilliantly and shockingly anatomised in Catherine Belton’s recent Putin’s People, is not so much a state, in the political sense, as a gangland boss’s sphere of operation. Magnitsky discovered that while those documents were in the custody of the police, they had been used to fraudulently re-register Hermitage's holding companies to the name of an ex-convict. He was instrumental in establishing a science and technology center in conjunction with Princeton University and Bell Labs. Friends and colleagues who I met in my International Democrat Union days have been exiled, imprisoned, and murdered.