>>2198616

Article from may 2018 about his arrest and release from Spanish police station on foot of interpol warrant that had expired.

British businessman Bill Browder, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was briefly detained Wednesday morning by Spanish police on a Russian arrest warrant for alleged fraud.

Browder, who was arrested in Madrid, posted on Twitter: “Urgent: Just was arrested by Spanish police in Madrid on a Russian Interpol arrest warrant. Going to the police station right now."

A few minutes later he sent another tweet: "In the back of the Spanish police car going to the station on the Russian arrest warrant. They won’t tell me which station."

The warrant that Browder posted shows that he is being arrested for fraud.

Later on Wednesday morning, Browder shared a post of him being released, saying: "Good news. Spanish National Police just released me after Interpol General Secretary in Lyon advised them not to honor the new Russian Interpol Red Notice. This is the 6th time that Russia has abused Interpol in my case"

Confusion over arrest

Following Browder's release, confusion remained over why the American-born businessman was detained. Spain's National Police tweeted: "Bill Browder has remained in police custody this morning for the minimum necessary time, after being verified by INTERPOL Spain that the arrest warrant issued by the Russian authorities for tax evasion was invalid."

Interpol headquarters then replied to that tweet, writing: "There is not, and never has been, a Red Notice for Bill Browder. Mr Browder is not wanted via INTERPOL channels."

Interpol has previously urged member countries to ignore attempts by Russia to use its network to apprehend Browder.

https://www.euronews.com/2018/05/30/putin-critic-bill-browder-arrested-in-spain-on-russian-arrest-warrant-

Putin's thorn

But Browder has become a thorn in Putin's side ear since he transformed his hedge fund into a London-based pressure group for Western sanctions on Russia.

Browder's campaign has seen the Baltic states, Canada, the UK, and the US impose visa bans and asset freezes on Russian officials deemed guilty of having murdered Browder's former lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, as part of a mafia scam.

It has also seen the US and some European countries seize millions of euros of illicit Russian funds, some of which trickled to Putin's close friends.

Meanwhile, the fact the US has no jurisdiction on Browder does not mean Trump's words were harmless.

They were likely to embolden Russia-friendly EU states, such as Cyprus, which had earlier attracted opprobrium for helping Russia to attack Browder.

They might also embolden law enforcement officers further afield in Europe, amid Russia's ongoing attempts to use Interpol, the international police agency, to get Browder extradited.

The British campaigner already has to seek guarantees of safe passage whenever he leaves the UK, for instance to speak to Danish or Dutch MPs.

He was arrested in Spain in June when he tried to meet a Spanish anti-mafia prosecutor on the Magnitsky case.

He was also briefly prevented from visiting the US in 2017 due to Russia's Interpol intrigues.

https://euobserver.com/foreign/142393

Hes avoiding russian prison.

Some Russian tycoons, especially those who made their fortunes before Putin’s rise to power in 1999, say they have little to do with the Kremlin and that US sanctions help Putin by forcing Russian capital back to Moscow.

A Russian court sentenced Browder to nine years in prison in absentia in December after finding him guilty of deliberate bankruptcy and tax evasion.

Browder, who has repeatedly dismissed the allegations, was briefly arrested in Spain last month before being released.

https://cyprus-mail.com/2018/06/15/kremlin-foe-browder-to-west-russian-money-putins-achilles-heel/

6 days ago…

Bill Browder, CEO of investment fund Hermitage Capital Management, on Wednesday filed a criminal complaint in Denmark against Danske Bank, which is suspected of Russian money laundering, Financial Times reports.

In his complaint to the Danish public prosecutor for special economic crimes and international crime, Browder alleges that at least 190 accounts were used to launder $203 million.

https://news.err.ee/846300/bill-browder-files-criminal-complaint-against-danske-bank

Schumer just called for POTUS to release his tax returns

https://www.c-span.org/video/?448413-1/senate-considers-presidents-executive-judicial-nominations&live

>>2198956

Spamming with spam

Following the Russian financial crisis of 1998, Browder remained committed to Hermitage's original mission of investing in Russia, despite significant outflows from the fund. Hermitage became a prominent activist shareholder in the Russian gas giant Gazprom, the large oil company Surgutneftegaz, RAO UES, Sberbank, Sidanco, Avismaand Volzhanka. Browder exposed management corruption and corporate malfeasance in these partly state-owned companies. He has been quoted as saying: "You had to become a shareholder activist if you didn’t want everything stolen from you".

In 1999, 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 US accounts at Barclays. Browder and his co-defendants settled with Avisma in 2000; they sold their Avisma shares as part of the confidential settlement agreement.

In 1995–2006 Hermitage Capital Management was one of the largest foreign investors in Russia,

and Browder amassed millions through his management of the fund. In both 2006 and 2007, he earned an estimated £125-150 million.

In March 2013, HSBC, a bank that serves as the trustee and manager of Hermitage Capital Management, announced that it would end the fund's operations in Russia. The decision was taken amid two legal cases against Browder: a libel court case in London and a trial in absentia for tax evasion in Moscow.

https://everything.explained.today/Bill_Browder/

>>2199146

A lot if them must be in on it to be persuaded to go ahead with sanctions against russia. They're all about to get caught and I hope the russian people are compensated in some manner. I didn't know that about the vouchers. Greedy fuckers!!

>>2199174

>>2199174

It will implicate too many americans.

Former presidential adviser Andrei Illarionov argues that some employees of the Central Bank, including Aleksashenko, actively participated in operations in the market of short-term government bonds. Aleksashenko refutes this information, stating that he did not play on the GKO market, especially with the use of insider information.

According to a RIA Novosti source in law enforcement agencies, on the eve of a default in Russia in 1998 from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to the Republic National Bank account belonging to Browder's companion Edmond Zafra, 4.8 billion dollars were transferred to the stabilization operations of the Central Bank of Russia - To trace this money subsequently it was not possible. According to him, after this, the Hermitage Capital Management fund, managed by Browder, started active investment activities in Russia.

Torshin believes that parliamentarians in the US should also pay attention to this point.

"It is necessary to understand the American parliamentarians, to analyze once again the facts that prompted them to adopt the" Magnitsky list. "Perhaps, after the investigation, a list of Browder, which will touch US officials, should appear next to him," Torshin said.

Translated from:

https://rapsinews.ru/international_news/20130201/266267672.html