Putin critic says plants in China, India and Turkey are funnelling up to $1bn a day to Kremlin
Bill Browder’s fight against Vladimir Putin has seen him face threats, lawsuits, false accusations of murder and Interpol arrest warrants. A disinformation-laden film was even made about him.
But 16 years after the death of his friend and lawyer Sergei Magnitsky at the hands of Putin’s regime, Browder is unrelenting in his fight for justice. It is an endeavour that, by his estimation, has cost Putin and his cronies billions of dollars already, via asset freezes and sanctions. Hence the considerable risk to his safety.
Browder has the restless intensity of a man who made his millions in post-Soviet Russia as the chief executive of Hermitage Capital Management, yet took on the even tougher challenge of standing up to the Kremlin.
On a recent visit to the World Economic Forum at the Swiss ski resort of Davos, he pursued chief executives, European leaders and US senators in his quest to impose even more financial pain on Putin and ultimately try to bring about the downfall of a murderous regime.
