Poison, bullets, threats: How those probing Putin riches are silenced
the Kremlin in 2015 after lobbying the U.S. Congress and European Parliament to investigate suspected Putin corruption.
A physicist and liberal politician, Nemtsov was deputy prime minister – and likely successor – to President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s before Putin's rise to power. He later campaigned on exposing corruption and injustice, and denouncing Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea. AMore:A rising-star young Russian tax lawyer, Magnitsky died in 2009 at age 37 in a Russian prison after being beaten and denied medical attention.
Magnitsky had been hired by the American-born William Browder, at the time the biggest Western investor in Russia, to investigate the theft of taxes paid to the Russian government. As Browder would later testify, Magnitsky helped blow the whistle on what he said was a $230 million fraud scheme implicating Putin. Eleven months later, he was dead. The Kremlin said he died of a heart attack, but Magnitsky's family and investigators said he was tied to a bed and beaten to death by eight prison guards with rubber batons.Founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital, Browder helped persuade the U.S. government to pass the Magnitsky Act in his former lawyer’s name in 2012.
According to Browder’s testimony, “There are seven people who have died either from murder or suspicious circumstances, and there's a number of other attempted murders” in connection with the Magnitsky Act and related efforts to uncover Kremlin corruption.
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