It's just amazing how badly Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to put Bill Browder behind bars.
Browder is the hedge fund manager who set up shop in Russia just as the country was privatizing, only to later become a critic of its oligarchs, which resulted in his being run out of the country, after which a handful of Russian officials "took over" his company and used it, in classic Russian fashion, to claim a phony $230 million tax refund. Which they received within 24 hours.
Although Browder persuaded most of his staff to move to London with him, his outside counsel, Sergei Magnitsky, refused to leave and instead investigated the tax fraud, after which he was tossed in prison, where his health deteriorated amid the brutal conditions and he died eight months later, at 37, apparently murdered by his captors.
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