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

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This book should be read by all, not just the doubters, the conspiracy theorists or Russian sympathisers. More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tingingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years.

I explained how, in 2008, Sergei had been taken hostage by corrupt Russian officials and ultimately killed in jail as my proxy. 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.Browder was on holiday at his home in Colorado at the time, and imagined that blacked-out secret service land cruisers would arrive and he’d be rendered away to Moscow to face a rigged showtrial and a mysterious death behind bars. Bill Browder has shown that one man with courage can make a difference, and that even the most powerful regimes have weak spots. but what is most troubling here is how acquiescent the western establishment has been to Russian crimes and lies. The level of details, storytelling style, honesty and factual accuracy make this book unique and extremely compelling. Bill Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005.

As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the Americas, they were shocked to discovered that Vladimir Putin himself was a beneficiary of the crime. As I rushed to pack, I remembered something Elena had said to me after I’d been detained at Geneva Airport that February. 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 told her all about the room, how extravagant and ridiculous it was, and how I wished she were with me. Bill’s courage, determination and tenacity with creating and putting the Magnitsky Act into action are truly remarkable. If this were a kidnapping, and I was starting to believe it was, I could picture what was in there: a bright-white office with a steel gurney, a little table with an assortment of syringes, and Russian men in cheap suits. Bill Browder is the founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management and was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005. It was a time of wild profiteering, as post-Soviet state assets were sold off on the cheap, and a venal oligarchy was created.