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Sergei Magnitsky was murdered as my proxy. If Sergei had not been my lawyer, he would still be alive today.
The Magnitsky law has proven to be a powerful tool. While asset freezes and travel bans against corrupt officials may sound incidental, they have shaken the Putin kleptocracy right down to the core.
While most people in the world probably haven’t heard my name, Vladimir Putin thinks about my name on a very regular basis. He really dislikes me because I’m the guy responsible for the Magnitsky Act.
Getting rid of the Magnitsky Act is one of the top, if not the top, priorities of the Putin regime.
Ever since Barack Obama had become president, the main policy of the U.S. government toward Russia had been one of appeasement.
We have Russia, on a serial basis, abusing Interpol… The moral of this story is that if a country wants to abuse Interpol they can just keep abusing Interpol and it doesn’t really matter how many times they do it.
I grew up in Chicago, but for the last 28 years I’ve lived in Moscow and London, and am now a British citizen. From 1996 to 2005, my firm, Hermitage Capital, was one of the largest investment advisers in Russia with more than $4 billion invested in Russian stocks.
If you put tariffs in place, it creates inflation. If you put inflation in place, you have to raise interest rates. You raise interest rates, and stock markets shouldn’t be so high.
I’m not saying anyone should go to nuclear war with Russia. What we should do is contain them and show them that there are consequences if they do terrible things, which is what sanctions are all about.
On April 27th 2017 the UK approved Magnitsky Sanctions as part of the Criminal Finances Bill. The provision gives the British government the power to seize assets of gross human rights violators.
If you want to go after Putin, go after his money and if you want to go after his money go after the oligarchs.
For the last ten years, I’ve been trying to avoid getting killed by Putin’s regime, and there already exists a trail of dead bodies connected to its desire to see me dead.
I much more enjoy the company of freedom fighters and justice campaigners than I do the company of hedge fund managers.
Russia has a well-known reputation for corruption; unfortunately, I discovered that it was far worse than many had thought. While working in Moscow I learned that Russian oligarchs stole from shareholders, which included the fund I advised.
Putin offered to allow American investigators to interview the 12 Russian intelligence agents just indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in exchange for allowing Russians to have access to me and those close to me.
One thing I can tell you: with the threat of death hanging over you, you live life to the fullest.
I work with so many levels of British law enforcement, I never know who is working for whom.
Don’t engage with corrupt officials under any circumstances. The results are always bad.
I’m not an American citizen.
Putin is a totally inscrutable guy. He gives nothing away. People interpreted what they wanted to see in him.
If I could do it all over again, I would have never gone to Russia.
Sergei Magnitsky was an incredibly intelligent, principled and idealistic man who was this sort of positive face of the new Russia. He was in jail, really, as my proxy, and so it was impossible for me to sleep. I felt guilty taking a shower because I knew he couldn’t.
Vladimir Putin is infuriated by the Magnitsky case. Why is he infuriated by it? It’s because he steals a lot of money himself. He ends up terrorizing people himself. And he keeps that money he’s stolen offshore.
Russia is an interesting place because they’re extremely evil but they’re not that good at implementing their evil.
I do have some very strong thoughts on Glenn Simpson, who is one of the founders of Fusion GPS, based on his conduct in trying to discredit me and Sergei Magnitsky.