Bill Browder founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management was the largest foreign investor
in Russia until 2005 when he was denied entry to the country after exposing widespread
corruption. Since 2009 when his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was murdered in Russian police custody
he has been leading a global campaign to expose human rights abuses endemic in Russia.
Consequentially the ¿Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act¿ was signed into US law
in 2012 imposing visa bans and asset freezes on certain officials involved in Magnitsky¿s
death. Browder is currently working to have similar legislation passed across the European
Union and Canada.
