Red Notice is a dramatic, moving and thriller-like account of how Magnitsky’s death transformed Browder from hedge-fund manager to global human rights crusader. He believed the law would protect him, that Russia had said farewell to its Soviet ghosts. Magnitsky – a family man with two small boys, who liked Beethoven – refused to leave. When the Kremlin got nasty, most of the lawyers fled.
Once a Putin fan, Browder found himself in trouble in 2005 when he was deported from Russia. That this happened was down to one man: Bill Browder, a US-born financier and the CEO of a successful asset management company. Magnitsky’s case was to become the most notorious and best-documented example of human rights abuse in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. This state-sanctioned torture was meant to make him withdraw his testimony. Magnitsky – who suffered from pancreatitis and gall stones – spent months in pain.
The same officials had Magnitsky arrested he was tossed into a freezing cell and refused medical treatment. He found evidence that a group of well-connected Russian officials had stolen a whopping $230m. 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.I n 2008 a young Russian lawyer called Sergei Magnitsky uncovered a massive tax fraud. On November 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 pre-trial 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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