Bloomberg: Russia Market Going From ‘Bad to Horrible’

March 31, 2010

Bloomberg: Firestone Flees Moscow ‘Mafia’ Police as Browder Affair Widens

February 19, 2010

Jami­son Fire­stone, who spent 18 years help­ing U.S. com­pa­nies nav­i­gate Russia’s legal sys­tem, said he fled the coun­try because he’s the next tar­get of “mafia” law-enforce­ment offi­cials he says were respon­si­ble for the death of his col­league Sergei Magnitsky.

Fire­stone, 44, a U.S. cit­i­zen and for­mer board mem­ber of the Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce in Rus­sia, said Inte­ri­or Min­istry offi­cials made two attempts to obtain $21 mil­lion in tax­es that a com­pa­ny he’s a direc­tor of paid to the gov­ern­ment. He said the per­pe­tra­tors forged his sig­na­ture and cor­po­rate seals to seek tax rebates, sim­i­lar to the $230 mil­lion in claims made by funds expro­pri­at­ed from Her­mitage Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment, a $1 bil­lion invest­ment firm run by his client William Browder.

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Bloomberg: Jamie Firestone Calls Russian Police System ‘Corrupt’

February 18, 2010

Jami­son Jamie Fire­stone, man­ag­ing part­ner of the law firm Fire­stone Dun­can, talks with Bloombergs Deirdre Bolton and Erik Schatzk­er about his alle­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion with­in Rus­si­a’s police force and the death of his employ­ee, Sergei Mag­nit­sky, who was arrest­ed and died in jail after tes­ti­fy­ing against police offi­cers. Fire­stone also dis­cuss­es his rea­sons for flee­ing the coun­try. (Source: Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Interview with William Browder

January 29, 2010

William Brow­der Says No Coun­try as Cor­rupt as Russia.

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