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

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Once more recounting astounding true events with the pace and page-turning elan of a political thriller, the author of Red Notice details the extraordinary story of what happened when he attempted to expose Putin's role in Russian money laundering. Perhaps some more background on characters like John Moscow and other key players might have added some missing depth. 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. 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. But putting my queries aside there is no arguing with the bravery of Browder and what he and others have achieved in the face of overwhelming Russian deviousness.

Under these acts Putin’s assets which are in Western financial institutions, hidden through shell companies, could be frozen if the true source and trail was identified as Browder did with Prevezon. Magnitsky discovered that while those documents were in the custody of the police, they had been used to fraudulently re-register Hermitage's holding companies to the name of an ex-convict. I made my pitch for the Magnitsy resolution and concluded, ‘As you can see, there’s no difference between the Russian government and organised crime’.I was there to share evidence about how dirty money connected to the murder of my Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, had been used to purchase luxury properties along Spain’s Costa del Sol. A description of the scarcely believable evil of Putin and his pals who rob the Russian people on a vast scale and murder anyone who gets in their way. It was only after the Russian invasion of Ukraine that the UK authorities belatedly noticed the preponderance of corrupt Russian billionaires laundering their money in London. In retaliation, Putin expelled him from Russia as a national security threat, and the officers from the Russian Interior Ministry essentially stole the fund’s holding companies. If you read these books you’ll know more about what’s happening in Russia than not only the people in your neighborhood, but many on TV!

Twenty-five more officers raided the Moscow office of Browder's American law firm, Firestone Duncan, seizing the corporate registration documents for Hermitage's investment holding companies. And as their investigation continues, they uncover an elaborate money laundering scheme of over a trillion dollars, with ties to the very head of the Russian government, who will stop at nothing to threaten Mr. These financial-crimes laws empower governments to freeze assets owned by people or entities not based in the country doing the freezing's legal jurisdiction. I would then have 30 days to respond, and the Russians would have another 30 days to respond to my response. With the information Browder supplied, the Southern District of New York filed a case in 2013 against a Russian held real estate company for money laundering.I had been subjected to dozens of death threats, and had even been warned several years earlier by a US government official that an extrajudicial rendition was being planned for me. Eighteen months later, Hermitage’s offices were raided by the Russian authorities and its paperwork removed. An eye-opening exposé of the lengths Putin’s cronies will go to hide their crimes and punish their accusers. Since the murder of Sergei Magnitsky, Browder's advocacy has led to the passage of the Magnitsky Act in 34 countries.

There are a few small hints that there might have been a rush to print by the publisher due to current events. Browder, perhaps lucky to still be here, tells his story exposing Putin and his cronies as an organized crime syndicate that runs Russia. This is Bill Browder speaking at an international conference in Monaco after the showing of one of his films; this film was about the theft of millions of dollars in fraudulent tax crimes and the subsequent deaths of people on whole the blame was laid all allegedly with the full knowledge of the government at the highest level. But they are related events, and as this book makes all too clear, we’ve taken far too long to recognise the true nature of the regime that connects them.The most troubling aspect is how acquiescent the western establishment has been to Russian crimes and lies. You will then look at the Russia - Ukraine war and understand many a statements and events and actions.