Russian Corruption Claims Hit YouTube

October 13, 2009

William Brow­der, the founder of Her­mitage Cap­i­tal Man­age­ment, found a new way to get his alle­ga­tions of Russ­ian cor­rup­tion out to the pub­lic: YouTube. Brow­der spoke to CNBC about the strategy.

Brow­der, who claims to have been the vic­tim of a cor­rup­tion ring that took $230 mil­lion, has been fight­ing for his sto­ry to be heard for sev­er­al years, with min­i­mal suc­cess. If true, the case would amount to the biggest tax fraud in Russ­ian history.

“We have a com­pli­cat­ed sto­ry to tell about how the gov­ern­ment stole our com­pa­nies and then used our com­pa­nies to steal $230 mil­lion from them­selves — a bunch of crooks and gov­ern­ment offi­cials,” Brow­der told CNBC Monday.

To read the full sto­ry vis­it CNBC web­site: http://www.cnbc.com/id/33288392

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