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Reuters: Russian money is Putin’s Achilles heel, says Kremlin foe Bill Browder

Published June 15, 2018 at 1:52 pm

CEO of Hermitage Capital Management Bill Browder, a former Moscow financier turned anti-Kremlin activist, walks in the House of Representatives in The Hague on May 23, 2018, where is to speak on the Magnitsky Act. The US Congress in 2012 passed the Magnitsky Act, which has allowed Washington to slap tough sanctions on dozens of senior Russian officials, blocking them from visiting the United States or affecting their finances.

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Once the biggest foreign money manager in Russia, Bill Browder has some advice for the West: If you want to counter Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, then go after Russian money and Russian oligarchs.

Browder, the British 54-year-old head of investment fund Hermitage Capital Management, leads a campaign to expose corruption and punish Russian officials he blames for the 2009 death of Sergei Magnitsky who he employed as a lawyer.