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Sir William Felix Browder, is an American-born British financier and political activist. He is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, the investment advisor to the Hermitage Fund, which was formerly the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia. The Hermitage Fund was founded in partnership with Republic National Bank, with $25 million in seed capital. The fund, and associated…
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business · British financier and political activist · economist · human rights defender · businessperson · politician · investor · entrepreneur · financier · also Bill Browder, William F. Browder, Browder
Born 23 April 1964 · Q377538
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I hope that my story will help you understand the methods of Russian operatives in Washington and how they use U.S. enablers to achieve major foreign policy goals without disclosing those interests. I also hope that this story and others like it may lead to a change in the FARA enforcement regime in the future.
I estimate that he has accumulated $200 billion of ill-gotten gains from these types of operations over his 17 years in power. He keeps his money in the West and all of his money in the West is potentially exposed to asset freezes and confiscation. Therefore, he has a significant and very personal interest in finding a way to get rid of the Magnitsky sanctions.
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“I hope that my story will help you understand the methods of Russian operatives in Washington and how they use U.S. enablers to achieve major foreign policy goals without disclosing those interests. I also hope that this story and others like it may lead to a change in the FARA enforcement regime in the future.”
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“I estimate that he has accumulated $200 billion of ill-gotten gains from these types of operations over his 17 years in power. He keeps his money in the West and all of his money in the West is potentially exposed to asset freezes and confiscation. Therefore, he has a significant and very personal interest in finding a way to get rid of the Magnitsky sanctions.”
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“Merkel fought hard to make Germany and Europe dependent on Moscow and open to blackmail. Putin”
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Public attention spiked: 3,401 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.5× the usual 454, with 4 article edits. Editors noted: Der Spiegel articles Wording adjusted
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Public attention spiked: 3,639 Wikipedia readers in one day, 8× the usual 454, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: add article about Bill's son Alexander (17), which was also sanctioned
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“This won’t seriously deprive Putin of his war dollars unless we sanction the eight refineries that buy the oil in China, India.”
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It was reported that director Doug Liman had signed on to helm an eight-part series adaptation of Browder’s book
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Browder received the Lantos Human Rights Prize from the Lantos Foundation for his work as the "driving force behind the Magnitsky Sanctions, the most consequential enforcement mechanism of the modern human rights movemen
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VOA rated the claim “"Forensic examination of biological samples taken from [Browder’s partners] Gasanov, Korobeinikov, Kurochkin and Magnitsky makes it possible to conclude that the mentioned persons had symptoms of chronic poisoning with toxic, soluble inorganic substances introduced into their bodies."” False.
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FactCheck.org rated the claim “"Business associates of" William Browder "sent a huge amount of money – 400 million – as a contribution to the campaign of Hillary Clinton."” No Evidence.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Says associates of financier Bill Browder “sent a huge amount of money, over $400 million, as a contribution to the campaign of Hillary Clinton.”” Pants on Fire.
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Browder was named the 67th most powerful person in the world by Worth magazine
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Browder received the Aspen Institute Henry Crown Leadership Award, a prize honouring "an outstanding leader whose achievements reflect the high standards of honor, integrity, industry, and philanthropy
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GQ magazine named Browder one of its Men of the Year for standing up to Vladimir Putin
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“... [Putin] needs to be at war so that there’s a foreign enemy and not people getting angry with him for a lousy life that he’s created for most Russian people. And so if he were to stop the war, he would lose power.”
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A film adaptation written by William Nicholson was reportedly in the works
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The European Parliament voted for sanctions against 32 Russians believed complicit in the Magnitsky case; this was the first time it had taken such action
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Both Magnitsky and Browder were tried in absentia in Russia for tax fraud
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By The New York Times, "over the next two years (according to Browder) several of his associates and lawyers, as well as their relatives, became victims of crimes, including severe beatings and robberies during which doc
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After 10 years of business deals in Russia, Browder was blacklisted by the Russian government as a "threat to national security" and denied entry to the country
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Became the president of the American Mathematical Society
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Avisma filed a RICO lawsuit against Browder and other Avisma investors, including Kenneth Dart, alleging they illegally siphoned company assets into offshore accounts and then transferred the funds to U
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Was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Bill Clinton, for his "key role in the explosive growth of nonlinear functional analysis and its applications to partial differential equations in recent years"
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Browder became a British citizen and relinquished his U
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The Hermitage Fund was the best-performing fund in the world, up by 238%
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For the purpose of investing initial seed capital of $25 million in Russia during the period of the mass privatisation after the fall of the Soviet Union
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Born 1964-04-23.
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Earl Browder became the leader of the Communist Party USA from 1930 to 1945 and ran for U
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