The Daily Telegraph reports that Russian prosecutors have
asked a court to issue an international arrest warrant for William Browder, the
millionaire British hedge fund manager who has become a major thorn in the
Kremlin’s side over his criticism and exposés of official corruption.
Investigators in Moscow
have charged Mr Browder, the founder of Hermitage Captial Management, with tax
evasion in a case which human rights groups have largely dismissed as
political. His co-accused is Sergei Magnitsky, the whistleblowing lawyer who
died in police custody.. Browder has
been accused of illegally buying Gazprom stock when foreign ownership of the
world’s largest natural gas producer was restricted. He says the charges are
politically motivated.
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