Red Notice

A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

396 pages

English language

Published April 5, 2015 by Simon & Schuster.

ISBN:
978-1-4767-5571-7
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OCLC Number:
883146703

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Bill 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. It continued in Moscow, where Browder made his fortune heading the largest investment fund in Russia after the Soviet Union's collapse. 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. 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. Browder's attorney Sergei Magnitsky investigated the incident and uncovered a sprawling criminal enterprise. A month after Sergei testified against the officials involved, he was arrested and thrown into pre-trial detention, where he was tortured for a year. On November 16, 2009, he was …

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Subjects

  • Political corruption
  • Capitalists and financiers
  • Foreign Investments
  • Biography
  • Finance

Places

  • United States
  • Russia (Federation)