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

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But rather I feel fewer mentions of family skiing vacations in Aspen and all the trans-continental jet setting might have made space for some more interesting analysis. The Russians hired a lawyer who had previously worked for Browder, a conflict of interest that eventually had the lawyer barred, but not before Browder feared his personal information had been passed on to the people who were out to get him.

Why, when after the summit Putin added names to Browder’s, were most of the people either involved with the Magnitsky Act or the Prevezon case? Bill Browder's thrilling new book digs deeper into the kleptocratic world enabled and supported by the Russian state, for the benefit of the most powerful and well-connected crooks in Russia and beyond. When I arrived at my hotel that evening, the manager scurried over to the check-in desk and ushered the clerk aside.

Fast paced and engaging, Browder’s book reads like a spy novel, but it also makes a powerful and remarkably prescient case for the need to use all the legal and financial tools available to separate Putin’s financiers from their foreign-held bank accounts and luxury yachts.

Suffice it to say that Browder explains in plain language in this book and his earlier Red Notice why the Russian regime under Putin is an organized crime syndicate masquerading as a government, and he describes how Western banking and legal institutions have wittingly and unwittingly aided Putin's, and the oligarch's, accumulation of wealth. Not just Russian ones that won't mean a lot to most readers, but American and British politicians, diplomats, and officers of the court who behave outrageously, cowardly, or corruptly. Fast-paced and all too relevant, this is a interesting and important read for people hoping to better understand the machinations of power within Russia and how those impact the rest of the world.The author has been trying to get the west to take the threat from Putin's Russia seriously for many years. I mean some of the stuff would be laughed at if written for a movie - like the attorney who fought the good fight but eventually becomes corrupted by Russian money is named .

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 was in Bosnia with the UN and I have to say that the Russians, as a group, were almost as scary as the Serbs.