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

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He spoke quickly to the officers, and then said, “These gentlemen will give you a few moments to pack. The level of details, storytelling style, honesty and factual accuracy make this book unique and extremely compelling.

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. Lawyers, politicians and the usual useful idiots have all been successfully recruited to the Russian cause, either through financial inducement, bribery, bovine anti-west sentiments, or perhaps worst of all, complacency. Under EU law, anyone who’s been arrested must be presented with the charges in their native language.

With the inevitable delays, I was looking at a minimum of six months of sitting in a sweltering Spanish jail before I was either released or sent to Russia. 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. Once adopted, however, the Magnitsky law remained mostly unused in the US, and particularly in the UK.

An eye-opening exposé of the lengths Putin’s cronies will go to hide their crimes and punish their accusers. When I arrived at my hotel that evening, the manager scurried over to the check-in desk and ushered the clerk aside. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. He handed me a room key with both hands cupped in a vaguely Japanese manner and stepped from behind the counter.

Could not be more timely in illustrating why the support of Russia’s super-rich and their funds have become crucial to Putin’s powerbase. This is Bill Browder speaking at an international conference in Monaco after the showing of one of his films; this film was about the theft of millions of dollars in fraudulent tax crimes and the subsequent deaths of people on whole the blame was laid all allegedly with the full knowledge of the government at the highest level. 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.