Bill Browder is still campaigning for justice for his late lawyer and friend.
Red Notice is a searing expose of the whitewash of this imprisonment and murder. His crime? Testifying against Russian officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight police officers in a freezing cell in a Moscow prison.
A true-life thriller by one of Putin's Most Wanted. A Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. electrifying.' The Times I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. A financial caper, a crime thriller, and a political crusade, Red Notice is the story of one man taking on overpowering odds to change the world.'An unburdening, a witness statement and a thriller all at the same time. 16, 2009, he was led to an isolation chamber, handcuffed to a bedrail, and beaten to death by eight guards in full riot gear.īrowder glimpsed the heart of darkness, and it transformed his life: he embarked on an unrelenting quest for justice in Sergei’s name, exposing the towering cover-up that leads right up to Putin. A month after Sergei testified against the officials involved, he was arrested and thrown into pretrial detention, where he was tortured for a year. Browder’s attorney Sergei Magnitsky investigated the incident and uncovered a sprawling criminal enterprise. In 2007 a group of law enforcement officers raided Browder’s offices in Moscow and stole $230 million of taxes that his fund’s companies had paid to the Russian government. But when he exposed the corrupt oligarchs who were robbing the companies in which he was investing, Vladimir Putin turned on him and in 2005 had him expelled from Russia. It continued in Moscow, where Browder made his fortune heading the largest investment fund in Russia after the Soviet Union’s collapse. A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin’s corruption.īill Browder’s journey started on the South Side of Chicago and moved through Stanford Business School to the dog-eat-dog world of hedge fund investing in the 1990s.
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