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Its a rare opportunity to brighten a National Image that often skates on the thin ice of corruption. One authority estimates that 20 of the russian economy is skimmed by graft, and a lot of that by government officials. It may be that no one knows more about this than americanborn businessman bill browder. Browder tells a story of thievery, vengeance and death worthy of a russian novel. Hes a thorn in the side of vladimir putin, and he has torn a rift between moscow and washington. When you hear what he has to say about russia, youll know why russia thinks of bill browder as an enemy of the state. Bill browder the russian regime is a criminal regime. Were dealing with a Nuclear Country run by a bunch of mafia crooks. And we have to know that. Pelley bill browder wanted us to know hes dedicated his life and his wealth to putting certain russian officials in prison. In russia, theres a warrant out for browders arrest, but that is not what worries him. You think your lifes in danger . Browder my life is definitely in danger. Pelley why do you say that . Browder weve gotten numerous Death Threats by text, by email. Pelley what do the texts say . Browder things like, whats worse, prison or death . Pelley those werent the two options browder imagined he would face back in 1996 when he first landed in moscow. The new russia was then a vast opportunity where business invested its money and russians invested their hopes. The government was selling off relics of communism, big state owned companies that were inefficient and corruptly managed. Browder invested in those companies and pushed to throw out the crooked management. How did it make sense to you to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into these companies if you knew that the management was stealing from the bottom line . Browder we said to ourselves, if we can own them cheap on a profitafterstealing basis, and we can stop the stealing, then theyll be even cheaper and therefore we can make a lot of money. Pelley stopping the stealing was a way of padding your bottom line . Browder i had the best job in the world, which was making money and doing good at the same time. Theres very few jobs that you can actually do that in. Pelley in those days, billionaires were grabbing companies. Rules were loose and lines were crossed, but it was a world that browder navigated well. He earned a reputation as a tough negotiator with sharp elbows when he needed them. He made enemies and a spectacular fortune. Browder by the top of my career, we were the largest Investment Fund in russia, with more than 4. 5 billion invested in the country. If you had put your money in and then took it out when i left russia, you wouldve made 35 times your money investing in the fund. Pelley it was lucrative and dangerous. Hundreds of billions of dollars were sloshing around in what was essentially a new country, where neither the government nor the courts had come of age. Browder says he learned what that could mean in 2005. After a flight from london back to moscow, his charmed life was suddenly crushed under the stamp of a passport inspector. Browder i was stopped at the Airport Detention Center for about 15 hours, and then they deported me from russia and declared me a threat to national security. Pelley what was dawning on you as you sat in that detention area . Browder i could only think that somehow. This must be a mistake because i couldnt have imagined, at that point, that i didnt think that id gone against the government. I thought i was going against some crooked guys. Pelley according to browder, it turned out there were some crooked guys in the Russian Tax Service, their version of the i. R. S. 19 months after browder was deported, a squad of police raided his office and the offices of his lawyer. The police left with the ownership documents for browders companies. Those documents were then used to reincorporate the companies under new owners. Browder says it was part of a scheme by an organized crime group consisting of tax service bureaucrats, police, bankers and lawyers. Wait a minute the ownership of your company was transferred to someone else without your knowledge or participation . Browder exactly. Pelley the company was stolen . Browder our company, our three companies were stolen using the documents seized by the police. Pelley then, browder says, the new, phony owners applied to the Russian Tax Service for a refund that wasnt due. Browder they basically took our companies, and then applied illegally for a 230 million tax refund, which was approved in one day on Christmas Eve 2007. Pelley merry christmas. Browder merry christmas. It was the largest tax refund in russian history, approved in one day, no questions asked. Pelley how does that happen . Browder we werent sure. We thought there. This certainly must be a rogue operation with highlevel people involved because, to get a tax refund of 230 million, it involves a ministerlevel person to approve it. Pelley bill browder says he needed an honest man to investigate, and found him in Sergei Magnitsky, a moscow tax attorney who colleagues said had never lost a case. Browder sergei was the kind of person that everybody should want to have in their life. He was a man of principle, a man of competence, and a true friend and a true person. Pelley magnitsky was one of those who had invested his hopes in the new russia. Hed married his High School Sweetheart and they were raising two boys. Browder he believed in the new russia. He was the new russia. Pelley magnitsky believed in the rule of law . Browder he believed in the rule of law and he thought the law would protect him. Pelley magnitsky went to work, unraveled the theft and identified suspects. One of them, he believed, was a Lieutenant Colonel with the police, Artem Kuznetsov, the man who led the raid on browders office. Magnitsky took his evidence to prosecutors, testified and demanded an investigation. He got one, but not the one he expected. In an extraordinary turn of events, the police raided magnitskys apartment; his arrest warrant had been ordered by the same Artem Kuznetsov. Tell me about the moment he was arrested. What did the Police Officers tell you . Magnitskys wife, natalia, says that he was arrested for tax evasion. Natalia translated they didnt tell me anything. Sergei tried to calm me down. He said to me, i will be back tomorrow. And we expected that he would be back the next day or the day after that. And he was in prison for about a year. Browder they put him in pretrial detention, and then they began to torture him to get him to withdraw his testimony. Pelley what do you mean torture him . Browder they put him in cells with no windows and no heat in december in moscow, so he nearly froze to death. They put him in cells with no toilet, just a hole in the floor where the sewage would bubble up. And after about six months of this, his health started to really break down. Pelley instead of being hospitalized, magnitsky was transferred to butyrka, a jail with limited medical facilities. He wrote hundreds of complaints, and theres even a prison record of a beating that the guards gave him. In all, he was held for nearly a year without trial. Browder he and his lawyer desperately applied in writing on 20 different occasions for medical attention. All of his requests were either ignored or rejected. Pelley this is magnitsky, in the light jacket, in the prison in 2009. He was being transferred to a medical facility. He was 37 years old and would be dead in a few hours. Prison officials called it a heart attack. Magnitskys hands and wrists tell a story which is less clear. His mother natalia wanted an independent autopsy, which the government denied. Natalia magnitskaya translated in the photos, we saw deep, deep wounds, suggesting that violent force was used against him, and that he was defending himself or they were pulling him by his arms, because those kinds of marks couldnt be just from wearing handcuffs. Pelley magnitskys death was something of a sensation. To citizens weary of corruption, he was a martyr. In america, browder brought magnitskys mother, wife and son to capitol hill. Nice to see you again, my friend. Pelley browder told his version of magnitskys death to congress, and in 2012, convinced members of the senate and house to pass the magnitsky act. Browder well never be able to bring sergei back. Pelley the act bans 18 russians from entering the u. S. , including Artem Kuznetsov and other police and tax officials allegedly involved in the theft of browders companies. Days later, in retaliation, the Russian Parliament banned american adoption of russian children. U. S. russian relations havent been the same since. In a news conference, vladimir putin, who has run russia for 14 years, insisted magnitskys heart had failed. And he added, do you think no one dies in american jails . Of course they do. So what . How did you hear of his death . Browder it was november 17, 2009. I got a phone call from our russian lawyer. And it was by far the most unexpected and horrible news that i could ever have gotten. It was like a knife being plunged right into my heart when i got that call. Pelley that was a knife that russian authorities would twist. Last year, prosecutors put magnitsky and browder on trial. Empty benches sat in the court as the defendants one deported, the other dead were tried for tax evasion. Why should we believe it isnt true . Look, you went to business there in the early period after the fall of the berlin wall when everything was possible. And you went in there and you made spectacular amounts of money. Now, the russians say one of the ways you did that was by beating russian taxes. Browder well, one possibly could believe that, if you didnt look at the circumstances of events. If the person who organized the criminal cases against us was the person who stole 230 million and then we exposed; then, they killed my lawyer and now theyre putting him on trial. It kind of destroys the credibility of any allegations they make. Pelley bill browder has turned part of his London Office over to his own group of investigators, who have followed the money from the theft. Browder this tells you whos in the organized crime group. Pelley the results of the investigation are on his web site. His evidence includes titles for 81,000 cars owned by Police Officers, and deeds for three vacation homes and a mansion owned by a midlevel tax service bureaucrat. And the estimated value of that house is what . Browder 20 million. Pelley 20 million . Browder 20 million. And just to remind you, these are people on a joint Family Income on 38,000 a year. I can even show you their tax return. Pelley where do you get all this stuff . How is it that you have their tax return . Browder in this particular case, we were approached by a russian whistleblower, a guy who decided that, you know, murder was beyond what he was comfortable being involved with. Pelley whats happened to these people now that youve exposed them . Browder a number of them received state honors. Theyre still valued people, no matter what anyone says about them abroad. Pelley what does that tell you . Browder that tells me that this goes right up to the president of russia. Pelley why do you say so . Browder because the president of russia has basically gone on record, and hes denied that there was any crime that was committed by any official. Hes on the record saying Sergei Magnitsky was a crook, and hes gone on the record saying that im a crook. Hes clearly involved in the coverup. Pelley putin denies browders allegations. Lieutenant colonel kuznetsov did not respond to our calls, but a lawyer has denied wrongdoing on his behalf. Just last summer, the moscow court convicted the two empty benches and issued a warrant for bill browders arrest. Browder what they didnt anticipate was that, after sergei died, that i would make it my lifes work to make sure that this information saw the light of day, and that the people who killed sergei didnt get away with it. Pelley your lifes work . Why . Browder sergei worked for me. They arrested him for working for me. They tortured him for working for me. And they killed him. Basically killed him as my proxy. And i. I owe him, his memory and his family justice. Pelley in the latest development, the u. S. 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