Stop the Untouchables. Justice for Sergei Magnitsky.

Moscow steps up battle against Browder

FCPA Blog

The Anti-Terrorist Department (Department ‘T’) of the Russian Interior Ministry is trying to arrest the American-born head of Hermitage Capital, William Browder, who has conducted a successful global campaign to sanction those involved with the jailing and death of his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky.

Browder, left, a U.K. citizen, was named in an arrest warrant in absentia, Hermitage Capital said Monday.

‘Court records indicate that Lt. Colonel A.K. Gubanov of the Department “T” of the Russian Interior Ministry visited the second secretary of the British embassy in Moscow in March 2013 “searching” for Mr. Browder, who lives in London,’ Hermitage said.

The British Home Office rejected prior Russian requests for mutual legal assistance in relation to Browder, Hermitage said.

Browder is behind a global campaign to punish the Russians implicated in Magnitsky’s jailing and death.

The 39-year-old lawyer died in a Moscow prison in 2009 after uncovering a massive tax fraud. There was evidence he was tortured during his year-long detention and denied medical attention.