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Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

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Murder, intrigue, corruption, organized crime, double dealing and high stakes international politics involving billions of dollars. Unbelievably, Browder is still alive—even though Russian president Vladimir Putin has placed him in both legal and personal jeopardy more than once.

I pulled my mobile out of my jacket pocket and surreptitiously snapped a picture through the Plexiglas, capturing the backs of the officers’ heads and their police radio mounted on the dashboard. The continuing story of Bill Browder's prodigious efforts to bring retribution to Putin and the Russian oligarchs who murdered his colleague Sergei Magnitsky and have stolen billions from the people of Russia.I may not have been kidnapped, but I was now in the Spanish criminal justice system on a Russian arrest warrant. Browder describes the Putin government’s raid and takeover of his company Hermitage Capital in 2005. Este livro de não ficção, conta factos reais que mostra o quão instável, corrupto e ameaçador a Russia está a ficar, em pleno século XXI, graças ao ditador Putin. Browder’s account of how he stood up to Putin in the face of danger, arrest warrants, and bullying is mandatory reading for anyone who wants to understand the tactics of modern autocracy. I would encourage anyone interested in what goes on in high places to read this book and be educated in such matters.

As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the Americas, they were shocked to discover that Vladimir Putin himself was a beneficiary of the crime. I had several questions about how Browder came to work in and make money in Russia (this may have been covered in his book Red Notice ). This statement would seem to suggest I don't trust the author's view on things, which is not the case.He stepped aside when the doors opened, making room for me to exit first, but once we were in the hall he shuffled past me, stopping in front of a white door. A] zesty new book about the theft, extortion, intimidation, lies and murder that are the Russian state’s daily levers of power. The Russians were NOT there to talk about adoptions as they suggested, but rather the Magnitsky Act. Since the murder of Sergei Magnitsky, Browder's advocacy has led to the passage of the Magnitsky Act in 34 countries.

This book was eye-opening on just how much Russian money has been spent on law firms, banks and politicians.Almost immediately, Russian oligarchs and corrupt government officials found ways to artfully steal from the companies. He and his cronies set up honey traps, hired process servers to chase Browder through cities, murdered more of his Russian allies, and enlisted some of America’s top lawyers and politicians to bring him down.

I leave this this book feeling frustrated that many avoided the consequences of their actions, greed prevailing regardless of the murders, blackmail and coercion and that Putin is still in power, that Trump is once more attempting to grab the presidency and that we seem to be on the verge of something even more terrifying unless these people are stopped. Reading this for book club, I wasn’t sure what I was getting into, and thought this was going to be an exciting spy novel. I explained how, in 2008, Sergei had been taken hostage by corrupt Russian officials and ultimately killed in jail as my proxy. Why at the 2018 Helsinki summit with Trump would Bill Browder be the one person Putin named he wanted to interrogate in trade for the 12 GRU officers Mueller had indicted?From the first chapter to the last, I was hanging on to the edge of my seat during the entire book, as Browder courageously tries to find out who was behind the spiderweb of money laundering and murder and why. He is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, the investment advisor to the Hermitage Fund, which at one time was the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia.

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