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

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One of the most sobering aspects of Browder’s rollicking, dangerous adventure [is] that late-period Putin has found it so easy to manipulate our western democracies from the inside. What concerned him was that his presidential suite would be unavailable so long as it contained my belongings.

There are a few small hints that there might have been a rush to print by the publisher due to current events. A graduate of Stanford Business School, he arrived in Moscow in the late 1990s, via a stint in London, determined to make his fortune. I had to let him know what was going on, so I ducked behind the partition and cupped my hand over the phone. I’m now totally disgusted by people who have to tell us how privileged they are by dropping in details about their family skiing vacations whilst telling us an espionage story. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the Americas, they were shocked to discover that Vladimir Putin himself was a beneficiary of the crime.The truck driver eventually emerged from a nearby building, saw the police car’s flashing lights, and moved his vehicle out of the way. When Putin came to power on New Year’s Eve 1999, promising to stamp out corruption, Browder was a relieved man. I mean some of the stuff would be laughed at if written for a movie - like the attorney who fought the good fight but eventually becomes corrupted by Russian money is named .

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!Browder ally and Estonia's former President Toomas Hendrik Ilves' name is jumbled in the acknowledgments as "Toomas Ilves Hendrik" (sic) (pg. Magnitsky exposed Russian corruption and misconduct alongside Browder and was subsequently tortured and killed by the regime.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Fast paced and engaging, Browder’s book reads like a spy novel, but it also makes a powerful and remarkably prescient case for the need to use all the legal and financial tools available to separate Putin’s financiers from their foreign-held bank accounts and luxury yachts.

He scanned my passport and fed the credit card—a Black American Express Card to which I’d recently been upgraded—into a chip reader. Browder was on holiday at his home in Colorado at the time, and imagined that blacked-out secret service land cruisers would arrive and he’d be rendered away to Moscow to face a rigged showtrial and a mysterious death behind bars.