In his new book Red Notice, American-born investor Bill Browder recounts in detail the Kafkaesque ordeal of his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, a nightmare set in motion in 2006 after the 37-year-old Russian auditor uncovered a massive corruption scheme perpetrated by Russian Interior Ministry officials. In Browder’s account, Magnitsky was a man of determination and idealism, but also of exceptional and tragic naïveté. Magnitsky refused the advice of Browder and colleagues at Browder’s investment fund, Hermitage Capital, to leave Russia. At one point he actually returned to the Russian State Investigative Committee to offer a second sworn witness statement. Magnitsky was …read more
Source: The American Interest
