Bill Browder, former investment beaker who once boasted the largest investment portfolio in Russia (Image: Getty)
Bill Browder, a US-British financier who claims his investments in Russia were looted by corrupt officials, said that there were many “legitimate targets” in the UK to target financially. Russia’s oligarchs have ploughed more than £450bn into the City since 1994, of which around £260m a year has been revenue. Benefactors have included UK asset management firms and estate agents – who received an annual £100m for Russian property purchases alone.
Bill Browder speaks onstage at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2019 (Image: Getty)
Mr Browder’s lawyer was Sergei Magnitsky, whose death in 2009 led him to successfully lobby for Britain to adopt the Magnitsky Act, which allows countries to sanction those it sees as human rights offenders and freeze their assets.
“We know who these oligarchs are. There’s a ton of evidence from the Paradise papers, the Panama papers and even (jailed opposition leader) Alexei Navalny has given us a list. It’s not…
