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We take all copyright concerns seriously. Putin would bring stability to the markets. Browder estimates, at a But he continued agitating about Gazprom. Then, in , the authorities moved against Hermitage, which had become the largest foreign-investment fund in Russia.
The tireless efforts of Sergei Magnitsky revealed this scam. But instead of going after the perpetrators, Russian authorities arrested Magnitsky in November and held him in pretrial detention for a year. He refused to recant, and as documents later revealed, he was beaten to death with rubber batons by eight officials in full riot gear.
Putin said Magnitsky had died of a heart attack. The case against Mr. Browder and Magnitsky continued. Both were found guilty of tax fraud in March —the first conviction of a dead person in Europe since , Mr. Browder continues the fight from abroad. He has succeeded in getting the Magnitsky Act passed through both the U. But he still gets calls from hedge-fund managers: Do you think we should get in? Review appeared in the Wall Street Journal on 3 rd February Eastern Europe was dipping a toe into the cold bath of free-market capitalism, and Mr. His small investment quadrupled in value within the year and went on to repay him tenfold.
His freewheeling, snappy book describes the meteoric rise, and disastrous fall, of a buccaneer capitalist who crossed the wrong people and paid a steep price. The highs were very high. Browder excelled at sniffing out undervalued companies, rolling the dice and reaping fantastic returns. Browder the largest foreign investor in the Russian stock market.
In , Hermitage was named the best-performing emerging-markets fund in the world, having generated returns of 1, percent to its original investors. The lows, however, were very low. A hefty portion of the book describes Mr. The cut and thrust, and the high stakes, make for a zesty tale. Browder and his Russian team became adept at amassing scandalous information about their foes and then presenting the findings, tied up in a neat package, to Western journalists who could inflict maximum damage. Browder admits to a fatal miscalculation.
He assumed that his American citizenship made him untouchable. In fact, he was living on borrowed time. Putin was intent on reining in the oligarchs, his interests and Mr. But at a certain point, they did not. Browder was kicked out of Russia, and his companies were seized.
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Later the Russian government asked Interpol to issue an all-points bulletin, or red notice, for his arrest on tax evasion charges. Interpol rejected the request, calling it politically motivated. Browder was then convicted by a Russian court in absentia.
After being held in custody for more than a year, Magnitsky was found dead on a prison floor in Moscow after being beaten and tortured. Browder began a relentless campaign to expose and punish Mr. Browder makes an unlikely hero and even more unlikely capitalist. Browder, by contrast, was a slacker. In the ultimate act of rebellion, he set his sights on a business career, a decision that straightened him out academically and no doubt would come as a shock to his grandfather.
Adding insult to injury, Mr. Browder turned his gaze eastward, toward the former Communist heartland, with plunder on his mind. For a while, he was. Magnitzky warned him, Russian stories never have happy endings. Browder concludes on a grim note. If this sounds histrionic, there is more than one dead body littering Mr. Browder discovered on more than one occasion, Russians are not always known for their light touch.
Review printed in the New York Times on February 2nd After a trial lasting four months, the two accused were found guilty of massive tax fraud. Yet the cage in the courtroom from which they were meant to learn their fate was empty. The message of their conviction was clear: Magnitsky is only one of countless people to have died in the Russian penal system. Yet his killing is the only one to have inspired its own US legislation: In this fast-paced book, he tells of his transition from businessman to human-rights campaigner. Browder did not set out to be a crusader.
Born into a family of American communists, he rebelled by devoting his life to making money. And, after a brief period in London working for, among others, Robert Maxwell — surely the perfect preparation for dealing with eastern European autocrats — he set off for Moscow. Russia in the early s was like a giant boot sale. The smart and the well connected scooped up the vouchers and used them to buy stakes in oil and gas companies for a fraction of their true value. Thus the oligarch class was born. But while the returns were huge, so too were the risks.
Browder fought to make them reverse the decision and, to his surprise, won. Emboldened, he went on buying, turning himself into a champion of investor rights and making himself powerful enemies. For a time, he thrived, helped by a campaign by Vladimir Putin to bring the oligarchs to heel. But the political climate changed, and when he flew back to Russia in after a weekend in London, he was barred from entering. He was the lucky one. Browder comes across as a flawed hero.
The determination with which he avenged his friend is commendable. Yet as long as things were going well, he had no qualms about making a fortune. Had he not fallen foul of the wrong people, he may well have continued to do so. Review appeared in the Sunday Times on 1st February There is an unpalatable certainty about life in London these days: Bill Browder, who used to be the largest foreign investor in Russia and made hundreds of millions of dollars over there, sincerely hopes to avoid the same grisly fate. But his would-be assassins show all the signs of being as cunning as they are determined.
In the absence of any other means of foolproof security, therefore, his chief defence against low railings or undetectable poisons may well be telling his story via this pacy international thriller. Red Notice is, though, not simply an attempt to raise the concept of life insurance to a new level by lifting the lid on the evils at the heart of the Russian system - and it is not fiction. Since Browder has been leading a campaign to expose endemic human rights abuses perpetrated from the Kremlin downwards because the young Russian lawyer who tried to protect him from trumped up charges after Browder annoyed the authorities by revealing the large-scale misdeeds of certain oligarchs paid with his life.
Emaciated and desperately ill, in November Sergei Magnitsky was led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to the bed, and beaten to death by eight police offers for refusing to betray his client. Rattling through the high-finance world of New York and London, and then on to the seedier side of life in Moscow, Red Notice sometimes stretches credulity. But just as Browder really is a hedge fund manager turned human rights activist, so this story of courage combined with a dash of obsessiveness is about the real here and now. He found the Foreign Office embarrassingly limp-wristed and morally cowardly, so Browder lobbied Congress instead.
Now Browder is working on persuading European governments to follow suit. An obsessively-driven twice-married money-making machine, Browder is not necessarily all that likeable. But he reminds us that heroism sometimes lies in unlikely places. Browder deserves our respect, and most of all, our protection through reading this book. This is the tale of an accidental activist. An American goes to Russia in the Wild East s.
He makes a pile of money investing in the stock market, runs afoul of Vladimir Putin and his thugocracy of thieving oligarchs, and gets deported. His lawyer is killed. Instead of lying low, he fights back. He becomes an international crusader for justice. The same skills that brought him financial success — stubbornness, creativity, and media savvy — now bring about an act of Congress. Not a proverbial one, but an actual act passed by the House and Senate and signed into law by President Obama. Bill Browder, the unexpected hero and author of this suspenseful memoir, is no ordinary investment banker.
Purposefully rebelling against his left-wing family, Bill Browder became an ardent capitalist. As a young management consultant in London, he expressed a vague interest in Eastern Europe, and just after the Berlin Wall falls, he had a hilarious escapade trying to restructure a Polish bus company. This led to him launching his own investment firm, Hermitage Capital. In December at age 31, Browder moved to Moscow. It is fascinating to follow him as he navigates the kleptocratic Russian economy, with its stonewalling secretaries and opaque, if not nonexistent official annual reports.
Browder became the largest foreign investor in the country. Then in while flying back from London, Browder was detained at a Moscow airport for 15 hours and expelled from Russia with no explanation. Moscow convicts him of tax evasion in absentia. His Russian lawyers fight these absurd, almost Kafkaesque developments.
The government imprisons one of them, a thirty-something tax attorney named Sergei Magnitsky who is tortured and in killed in detention. During his decade in Moscow, whenever he discovered something shady happening to a company he had invested in, Browder researched and cobbled together a dossier and then shared it with journalists to bring pressure for changes. Browder the investor morphs into Browder the human rights activist. He comes to Washington and lobbies hard, pulling out his Rolodex and getting meetings with key people.
He pushes stories to the press and creates YouTube videos about the corrupt Russian civil servants who on small salaries manage to buy posh apartments and vacation overseas. You might remember this measure because right after it became law, Russia retaliated by forbidding American families from adopting Russian children.
Browder even works for a time at the same notorious firm that Lewis did, Salomon Brothers. One small, but obvious note of tone deafness. Underneath the drama of his career is a rarefied private life. It seems that every time there is a crisis at work, Browder is vacationing at a five-star hotel. But there has been a heavy price paid for such luxuries. Review appeared in the Boston Globe on 31st January The former financier's autobiography is a gripping account of his rise and fall from Russia - and his fight for justice.
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Angry in a quiet, measured kind of way, but angry all the same. He is also full of guilt. Browder was once the biggest foreign investor in the Russian stock market and a big cheerleader for President Vladimir Putin. We have heard this story before. But it is so powerful it bears repeating again — not least because Browder is about to release his autobiography Red Notice. Indeed, the book so hooked our editor Matthew Gwyther that he came along as well to ask a further round of questions.
What an extraordinary story, what an honourable cause, what a scary man is Mr Putin. I really could not put this book down. One heck of a read. Reads more like a financial thriller than a real-life story" The Economist "It reads like a non-fiction version of a Mario Puzo thriller. And we challenge you to finish it and not be incensed. Bill Browder is an amazing moral crusader, and his book is a must-read for anyone who seeks to understand Russia, Putin, or the challenges of doing business in the world today. It is also a moving account of a man who found his calling, and ended up winning in the end.
It's exciting to read about Browder's roller-coaster ride to wealth in Russia, and then how compassion for Sergei Magnitsky, his murdered lawyer, inspires his memorable struggle against the venal apparatchiks of a corrupt state. This is the gripping - and absolutely true - story behind the Magnitsky Law, a signal advance in human rights. The Struggle For Global Justice.
Reviews of Red Notice The Guardian: Daniel Treisman is a professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the Russia Political Insight project. Hermitage Capital William Browder entered this scene, and entered into such rosy scenarios, in a big way, as CEO of the activist Hermitage Capital Management, the firm he founded in , with help from Edmond Safra.
Sidanco He was in the business of looking for undervalued companies, especially in cases where the undervaluation resulted from the under-exposed nature of the assets: Bill Browder was a highflying businessman in Moscow, until Putin turned on him. His new memoir details how dangerous it is to end up on the strongman's bad side. Browder became the largest foreign investor in the country Then in while flying back from London, Browder was detained at a Moscow airport for 15 hours and expelled from Russia with no explanation.
Browder has been criticised for being blind to the very obvious flaws of the Russian state until the very moment it turned on him. Not so, he says. My idea was just that it had to progress from Nigeria to Brazil. But I thought the personal risks were actually overstated. He is also adamant that no one should campaign for change from within Russia.
The outlook for the former Soviet state is currently pretty bleak. He still manages his own money, though. How much is that? His deadpan composure flickers. Published in Management Today on January 30th Red sky in the morning. A salutary tale of robbery and redress. He had the perfect job and was making himself rich.
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He bought underpriced shares in badly run Russian companies and chivvied the management into behaving better so the share price would go up. What could go wrong? Plenty, it turned out, including expropriation, beatings, intimidation and death.
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Born into a leftish academic household his grandfather led the American Communist Party , he rebelled by turning to capitalism. He spotted the potential of eastern Europe before it became fashionable, took big risks and reaped the rewards. He describes the exhilaration of buying scruffy little privatisation vouchers with suitcases of cash and watching their value soar when everyone else cottoned on to the size of the enterprises involved.
He learned how to use the media to voice concerns about corruption, hit back at tycoons who tried to bully him, and to promote Russia as a vastly under-valued market. It was not the first sign that something was awry in Russia, but the first time it affected him. The intervention came directly from the FSB, the state security service. Russian officials then raided his offices, beat up someone who unwisely resisted them and confiscated documents.
Mr Browder rightly assumed that he had overstepped the mark in his lambasting of Russian tycoons for corruption and asset-stripping. He secretly liquidated his holdings and shifted his investments to other countries. But his downfall in Russia was the beginning of the story, not the end. In response Magnitsky was arrested and told that he would be freed only if he gave evidence against his client. He held out for a year while he was kept in pre-trial detention in abominable conditions.
On November 16th Magnitsky died of untreated pancreatitis, aggravated by a severe beating. In a particularly grotesque touch, the Russian authorities then prosecuted him posthumously for perpetrating the fraud he had uncovered. He has shown how the money was stolen, who did it and, more to the point, how they laundered it in the West.
He has publicised these findings in documentary films and spread them in acres of news coverage. When the Kremlin tried to use Interpol to have him extradited to Russia on trumped-up fraud charges, he fought back, bringing about another change in the rules. Other countries followed suit. Yet two central messages of the book are moving and simple. The second is that the book exemplifies both the corrupt and brutal way in which the Putin regime does business at home and the cynical help it gets from foreigners when it launders profits abroad.
Mr Browder says he has changed. His life in finance, he says, was like watching television in black and white. Printed in the Economist on 31st January Written by Norman Pearlstine. He was jailed after disclosing the fraud and subsequently killed while in prison. For his efforts, Browder now finds himself subject to extradition to Russia, where the government has convicted him in absentia of tax evasion and sentenced him to nine years in prison.
The son of left-leaning academics and grandson of Earl Browder—the labor organizer and head of the American Communist Party—Bill Browder rebelled by becoming a capitalist. He recounts his early training through a series of pitch-perfect descriptions of J. Whether consulting for a Polish bus company, advising a Murmansk fishing fleet, or finding undervalued, newly privatized companies in Russia, Browder encounters real-life opportunities and absurdities that read better than fiction.
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