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

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I explained how, in 2008, Sergei had been taken hostage by corrupt Russian officials and ultimately killed in jail as my proxy. Creative poisoning being the method of choice to nix opposition it is no insignificant step to be so loudly in opposition to one Vladimir Putin. Twenty-five more officers raided the Moscow office of Browder's American law firm, Firestone Duncan, seizing the corporate registration documents for Hermitage's investment holding companies. There will never be enough people in the world with the courage that he, and those that experienced all this and continue to fight, possesses. Bill Browder's thrilling new book digs deeper into the kleptocratic world enabled and supported by the Russian state, for the benefit of the most powerful and well-connected crooks in Russia and beyond.

The truck driver eventually emerged from a nearby building, saw the police car’s flashing lights, and moved his vehicle out of the way. If something like this ever happens again,” she said, “and you can’t reach anyone, post it on Twitter.

I would then have 30 days to respond, and the Russians would have another 30 days to respond to my response. Held for almost a year without charge, Magnitsky died a few days before he was due to be released – murdered, says Browder, and a number of independent investigators, by prison guards who beat him to death.

We were soon stuck in traffic again, this time in front of the Royal Palace, among a throng of tour buses and schoolchildren. He set up Hermitage Capital Management, with the help of the Monaco-based billionaire Edmond Safra (later to die in a fire started by one of his servants). I’d started using Twitter a couple of years earlier, and now had some 135,000 followers, many of them journalists, government officials, and politicians from around the world. This personal account of Browder's battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching - and leads inexorably to a vast money-laundering scheme the Kremlin will seemingly stop at nothing to cover up.In the infamous Helsinki meeting with Putin, Trump described Putin's proposal to trade 12 GRU agents for Bill Browder as an "incredible offer"; and Trump for days refused to reject it, but fortunately Putin over-played his hand by then also asking for the former US ambassador to Russia to be handed over, and ultimately the outcry from real Americans forced Trump to politely turn down his pal Vladimir's offer.

The Magnitsky Act in the US that Bill Browder worked so long to get passed into law and similar laws in Canada, the EU, the UK, and Australia (with similar bills pending in several countries) finally gives national justice / law enforcement agencies the tools they need to seize assets and prosecute criminals. I've just complete Bill's book and have been left feeling incredibly angry, shocked and fearful but predominantly, amazed at the tenacity and bravery shown by those mentioned in this deep expose of Putin and his cabal of liars, thieves and murderers. Part of me thinks it's a miracle this guy is still alive, and part of me thinks, you can't possibly kill someone that rich and connected!

He handed me a room key with both hands cupped in a vaguely Japanese manner and stepped from behind the counter.

When Putin came to power on New Year’s Eve 1999, promising to stamp out corruption, Browder was a relieved man. In December 2012 President Obama signed into law the Magnitsky Act which had passed Congress with broad bi-partisan support. Under EU law, anyone who’s been arrested must be presented with the charges in their native language. The author has been trying to get the west to take the threat from Putin's Russia seriously for many years.Suffice it to say that Browder explains in plain language in this book and his earlier Red Notice why the Russian regime under Putin is an organized crime syndicate masquerading as a government, and he describes how Western banking and legal institutions have wittingly and unwittingly aided Putin's, and the oligarch's, accumulation of wealth. He and his cronies set up honey traps, hired process servers to chase Browder through cities, murdered more of his Russian allies, and enlisted some of the top lawyers and politicians in America to bring him down. You will then look at the Russia - Ukraine war and understand many a statements and events and actions. These last are through periodic Interpol 'red notice' warrants initiated by Russia to hopefully get Browder caught in Customs by a foreign country unaware of the malicious intents of the instigators.