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For a response. an official here at the russian embassy in washington referred us to a previous statement calling browder a businessman with a stained reputation who putin has accused of stealing $1.5 billion from russia when browder was a financier there. an accusation which bill browder vehemently denies. >> and browder has eluded several attempt business the russians to bring him back to moscow. >> reporter: that's right. he has dodged six warrants seeking his arrest. in one incident this year in spain, spanish police apprehended him but he was released an hour later. he believes if he's ev...

Leveled a stinging broadside at the russian president. asked by "vanity fair" magazine if he'd compare putin to joseph stalin, american born financier said, i see him as a modern day pablo escobar. putin has no modern day ideology whatsoever. all he wants is money and to hurt his monies. escobar, the late kingpin of the colombian drug cartel was notorious for his thirst for blood, once blamed for blowing up a passenger plane to strike at his enemies. browder believes putin wants to strike at him and spoke about it when we interviewed him in washington. what are the security threats you've rece...

Officials could interrogate browder. trump didn't push back. putin has a seething hatred for browder because browder pushed for the passing of the magnitsky act. >> i have found his achilles heel. i've created a legal mechanism to seize that money and he feels personally aggrieved and he has a vendetta against me. >> reporter: even with his critics embolden pd, one analyst believes the only person who can toss vladimir putin from power is vladimir putin. >> i don't think that putin is vulnerable to an overthrow from the streets, and i don't think that putin is, for the moment, vulnerable to so...

Russia then accused browder and magnitsky of tax fraud and that's what putin was referring to when he brought up browder. the magnitsky act was one of the reasons for the infamous trump tower meeting, may have been the only reason really as putin has worked very hard to get it repealed. i want to bring in bill browder, author of "red notice, a true story of high finance murder and one man's fight for justice." bill, what's your reaction to being named in this press conference by vladimir putin, really as being his biggest target, the guy he'd like to see justice brought toward? >> basically wh...