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World Affairs Council of Greater Houston

Bill Browder: ‘Putin’s Most Wanted Man’ on Russia, the West & the Future

June 18, 2020 @ 12:00 PM to June 18, 2020 @ - 01:00 PM
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About The Event

In a surprise proposal this summer at the Helsinki Summit with President Trump, President Putin offered to allow Robert Mueller’s special investigators to question 12 Russian military intelligence officers in relation to interference in the 2016 U.S. Election. But in return, Russia would have to be allowed to interrogate various people from the West. At the top of the list and personally singled out by Putin was Bill Browder – the founder of Hermitage Capital and formerly the largest portfolio investor in Russia managing over $4 Billion.

When Browder and his attorney, Sergei Magitsky, alleged massive corruption and tax fraud by Russia officials, Magnitsky was soon arrested, beaten badly and died in jail. In his honor, Browder became the driving force behind the Magnitsky Act which imposed the toughest sanctions in 35 years on Russia and Putin’s inner circle. And after years of denying involvement and labelling Magnitsky’s death merely as a tragedy, in a Kafkaesque turn, Putin now claims Magnitsky was indeed murdered … on the orders of Bill Browder.

About The Speaker

Bill Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005. Since 2009, when his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was murdered in prison after uncovering a $230 million fraud committed by Russian government officials, Browder has been leading a campaign to expose Russia’s endemic corruption and human rights abuses. Before founding Hermitage, Browder was vice president at Salomon Brothers. He holds a BA in economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Stanford Business School.

Click here for more information on his book, Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice.

 

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June 18, 2020 @ 12:00 PM to June 18, 2020 @ - 01:00 PM
 

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