Thirteen years ago this month, Browder’s Russian lawyer and anti-corruption whistle blower, Sergei Magnitsky, was killed in a Moscow pretrial detention centre. Ever since, Browder has strenuously lobbied for anti-corruption legislation.
In 2009 Sergei Magnitsky testified that the Russian police and tax authorities had attempted to steal two hundred and thirty million dollars in Russian taxes paid by Browder’s Moscow-based investment firm, Hermitage Capital.
The persecution and corporate raiding of Browder by Russia has been well documented. It is from this affair and Russia’s abuse of the Interpol system that the “Magnitsky list” was created by the US senate and then adopted by the EU.
In this video interview with Rhys Davies, barrister and co-editor of Red Notice Monitor, Browder discusses the devastating impact that Interpol abuse by authoritarian regimes is having on innocent individuals.: