Bill Browder’s Book, ‘Red Notice’, Launched in Russian Languagein the West After Being Banned inside Russia

March 31, 2015

Bill Brow­der’s Book, ‘Red Notice’, Launched in Russ­ian Lan­guagein the West After Being Banned inside Russia

31 March 2015 – ‘Red Notice’, the Num­ber One New York Times best­seller by Putin crit­ic Bill Brow­der, has now been released in the Russ­ian lan­guage, after its suc­cess­ful launch in nine lan­guages and thir­teen countries.

Shunned by all major Russ­ian pub­lish­ing hous­es and online book dis­trib­u­tors because of its con­tro­ver­sial con­tent, Browder’s ‘Red Notice’ will now be pub­lished by Kiev-based pub­lish­er, Lau­rus, in the Russ­ian lan­guage and dis­trib­uted out­side of Rus­sia through Google Play, where the read­er can order a hard copy (https://play.google.com/store/books/details/RED_NOTICE_Russian_Edition?id=YQWgBwAAQBAJ&hl=en_GB), and Ama­zon, where an elec­tron­ic edi­tion is avail­able (http://www.amazon.com/Red-Notice-Russian-Bill-Browder-ebook/dp/B00UN2FZTG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1427452245&sr=8 – 3&keywords=red+notice, http://www.amazon.com/Red-Notice-Russian-Bill-Browder-ebook/dp/B00UN2FZTG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1427452245&sr=8 – 3&keywords=red+notice)

“The Russ­ian peo­ple are the nat­ur­al audi­ence for ‘Red Notice.’ But because of the fear among Russ­ian pub­lish­ers of gov­ern­ment retal­i­a­tion for asso­ci­ating them­selves with this work,we had to pub­lish the Russ­ian edi­tion out­side of Rus­sia. Cur­rent­ly, pub­lish­ers from twen­ty dif­fer­ent coun­tries span­ning from Brazil to Japan to Greece havedis­played an inter­est in pub­lish­ing this book, but none inside of Rus­sia,” said Bill Brow­der, author of ‘Red Notice’.

‘Red Notice,’ the per­son­al exposé by Bill Brow­der of the events lead­ing to the arrest and mur­der of Russ­ian anti-cor­rup­tion lawyer Sergei Mag­nit­sky, the sub­se­quent cov­er-up by the Putin regime and the West­ern response, has become an instant inter­na­tion­al best­seller since its release in Feb­ru­ary 2015 worldwide.

In the first week of sales, ‘Red Notice’ hit the New York Times best­seller list, and has stayed on it for the sev­en weeks run­ning (http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2015 – 02-22/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html).

‘Red Notice’ has grabbed read­ers with wide­ly diverse inter­ests com­pris­ing busi­ness, pol­i­tics, and spy thrillers. It is fea­tured this month as num­ber one best­seller in the New York Times’ Crime sec­tion (http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/crime-and-punishment/list.html), num­ber two in Espi­onage, num­ber three in Busi­ness sec­tion, and num­ber six in Politics.

‘Red Notice’ has also been Num­ber One best­seller in ‘Inter­na­tion­al Busi­ness’ on Amazon.com; and it has appeared on the best­seller lists by NPR, USA Today, Wash­ing­ton Post, Pub­lish­ers Week­ly, and Indiebound, among others.

Read­ers on amazon.co.uk com­ment­ed on ‘Red Notice’:

“This is one of the most cap­ti­vat­ing and inter­est­ing books I have read in a long time.”

“If you start this book, you will keep read­ing until you have fin­ished, stop­ping only to weep and also to email your friends to read it, too.”

“This deeply dis­turb­ing, tem­pes­tu­ous and Kafkaesque sto­ry is writ­ten in a no-non­sense and racy style that makes it easy to read and take in.”

“Sur­pris­ing & informative.”

“Grip­ping through­out. One of the best books I’ve read recently.”

‘Red Notice’ is on the best­seller list pub­lished by The Sun­day Times (http://timesbooks.tbpcontrol.co.uk/TBP.Direct/CustomerAccessControl/Home.aspx?collection=10557072&d=timesbooks&s=C&r=10000414&ui=0&bc=0) in the Unit­ed Kingdom.

In Cana­da, ‘Red Notice’ peaked at Num­ber Three as the best-sell­ing book on Amazon.ca.

In New Zealand, it was num­ber six on the Nielsen week­ly best­seller list (http://www.booksellers.co.nz/book-news/nzs-bestsellers/nielsen-weekly-bestsellers-lists-week-ending-saturday-28-february).

The Swedish edi­tion of ‘Red Notice’ fea­tured in the top 10 pur­chas­es on Aldib­ris, Sweden’s largest online book retail­er, and the Dutch edi­tion of ‘Red Notice’ fea­tured on the Hol­land “Best­seller 60” list.  The Ger­man edi­tion also fea­tured on the Ger­man best­seller list.

To learn more, vis­it the ‘Red Notice’ web­site: http://billbrowder.com

For more infor­ma­tion, please contact:

Mag­nit­sky Jus­tice Campaign

+44 2074401777

e‑mail: info@lawandorderinrussia.org

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Canada’s House of Commons Passes Motion to Impose Visa Sanctions and Asset Freezes against the killers of Sergei Magnitsky

March 29, 2015

Canada’s House of Com­mons Pass­es Motion to Impose Visa Sanc­tions and Asset Freezes against the killers of Sergei Magnitsky

26March 2015 — The Cana­di­an House of Com­mons has unan­i­mous­ly passe­da motion call­ing for the impo­si­tion of tar­get­ed visa sanc­tions and asset freezes against those respon­si­ble for Sergei Magnitsky’s tor­ture, death, and the sub­se­quent cover-up.

The motion intro­duced by Hon. Irwin Cotler MP, Lib­er­al par­ty spokesman on Inter­na­tion­al Jus­tice and one of 21 par­lia­men­tar­i­ans from 13 coun­tries who form the Jus­tice for Sergei Mag­nit­sky Inter-Par­lia­men­tary Group, calls on the Cana­di­an gov­ern­ment to:

“Explore and encour­age sanc­tions against any for­eign nation­als who were respon­si­ble for the deten­tion, tor­ture or death of Sergei Mag­nit­sky, or who have been involved in cov­er­ing up the crimes he exposed.”  (http://irwincotler.liberal.ca/blog/motion-sanctions-human-rights-violators-magnitsky-case/)

“The unan­i­mous sup­port of this motion sends a clear sig­nal to human rights vio­la­tors in Rus­sia and around the world that they will be held to account for their crimes,” said Irwin Cotler MP. “By impos­ing sanc­tions, we can impose mean­ing­ful penal­ties on human rights vio­la­tors and deter future violations.”

The Mag­nit­sky Sanc­tions motion vot­ed on yes­ter­day in the Cana­di­an par­lia­ment also calls on the gov­ern­ment to sanc­tion human rights abusers around the world, stat­ing that tar­get­ed Mag­nit­sky sanc­tions are “appro­pri­ate against any for­eign nation­als respon­si­ble for vio­la­tions of inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized human rights in a for­eign coun­try.”

“We are pleased to see Cana­da tak­ing such a defin­i­tive stance against human rights abusers,” said Bill Brow­der. “This leg­is­la­tion will be an impor­tant step in ensur­ing that the lega­cy of Sergei Mag­nit­sky will con­tin­ue to pro­tect vic­tims of human rights abuse, both in Rus­sia and around the world.”

The Mag­nit­sky Sanc­tions motion adopt­ed in the Cana­di­an House of Com­mons fol­lows a pri­vate mem­bers bill intro­duced by Irwin Cotler in Octo­ber 2013, call­ing for sanc­tions to be imposed on those respon­si­ble for the tor­ture and death of Sergei Mag­nit­sky (https://openparliament.ca/bills/41 – 2/C‑339/).

A sim­i­lar motion has also been intro­duced in the Cana­di­an Senate.

Sev­en Cana­di­an Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans from four dif­fer­ent polit­i­cal par­ties, along with Bill Brow­der, leader of the Mag­nit­sky Jus­tice Cam­paign, pre­sent­ed their sup­port for the motion in a press con­fer­ence at the Cana­di­an Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day.  Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans in atten­dance includ­ed Irwin Cotler MP, Sen­a­tor  Raynell Andr­ey­chuk, Con­ser­v­a­tive MP and Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary to the Min­is­ter of For­eign Affairs David Ander­son, Lib­er­al For­eign Affairs Crit­ic Marc Gar­neau, NDP MP Mur­ray Rankin, Con­ser­v­a­tive Sen­a­tor Lin­da Frum, and Green Par­ty leader Eliz­a­beth May.

“The Sergei Mag­nit­sky case is today rec­og­nized as a sym­bol of what can hap­pen when the prin­ci­ples of fun­da­men­tal jus­tice and rule of law are manip­u­lat­ed for per­son­al gain,” said Sen­a­tor Andr­ey­chuk, who intro­duced the motion in the Sen­ate. “I hope that the Sen­ate will soon join with the House of Com­mons and par­lia­ments around the world to express our com­mit­ment to account­abil­i­ty for for­eign nation­als who com­mit the most seri­ous vio­la­tions of human rights.”

“The tragedy of Sergei Magnitsky’s death in Russ­ian cus­tody and appalling posthu­mous show tri­al are stark sym­bols of the pre­cip­i­tous decline of Russ­ian democ­ra­cy,” added Green Par­ty leader Eliz­a­beth May. “Bill Browder’s inex­haustible efforts to com­mem­o­rate the life of his lawyer and friend are laud­able and instruc­tive. I urge the Gov­ern­ment to give full sup­port to Mr. Cotler’s call for sanc­tions that will hold the per­pe­tra­tors of Sergei Magnitsky’s tor­ture account­able. Today’s motion is an impor­tant step in the inter­na­tion­al effort to achieve jus­tice for Mag­nit­sky and help to guar­an­tee the human rights of all Russ­ian cit­i­zens.”

Sergei Mag­nit­sky was killed in Russ­ian pre-tri­al deten­tion in 2009 after uncov­er­ing a $230 mil­lion cor­rup­tion scheme and tes­ti­fy­ing against the gov­ern­ment offi­cials involved.

Fol­low­ing his death, the US passed the 2012 Sergei Mag­nit­sky Rule of Law Account­abil­i­ty Act, which impos­es visa bans and asset freezes against those involved in Sergei’s case.  34 indi­vid­u­als are cur­rent­ly banned from the US under the Act.  (http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/pages/20130412.aspx; http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/ofac-enforcement/pages/20140520.aspx; http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20141229.aspx).

The Euro­pean Par­lia­ment passed a sim­i­lar res­o­lu­tion in 2014, call­ing for 32 indi­vid­u­als to be sanc­tioned.  (http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P7-TA-2014 – 0258).  Motions and res­o­lu­tions call­ing for sanc­tions have also been passed by the OSCE, PACE, the UK, Hol­land, Swe­den, Italy and Poland.

For more infor­ma­tion, please contact:

Mag­nit­sky Jus­tice Campaign

+44 2074401777

e‑mail: info@lawandorderinrussia.org

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Irwin Cotler MP’s press release con­cern­ing the Mag­nit­sky Sanc­tions motion: http://irwincotler.liberal.ca/blog/house-commons-unanimously-approves-motion-calling-magnitsky-sanctions-human-rights-violators/

Bill Browder’s Statement on the Murder of Boris Nemtsov

February 28, 2015

Last night Rus­sia entered a new and dark phase in its slide toward total­i­tar­i­an dic­ta­tor­ship with the mur­der of Boris Nemtsov. Pre­vi­ous­ly, the Putin regime relied pri­mar­i­ly on impris­on­ment and exile to silence oppo­si­tion politi­cians.  Now, they have start­ed mur­der­ing them. I’m sure this won’t be the last.

Boris Nemtsov was one of the few peo­ple in Rus­sia who was­n’t afraid to stand up to the cor­rup­tion, ille­git­i­ma­cy and impuni­ty of the Putin regime and for that he paid with his life. I will always remem­ber how Boris went around the world call­ing for jus­tice for the mur­der of Sergei Mag­nit­sky and demand­ing West­ern sanc­tions against his killers. It is now our duty to do the same for Boris.

I have no con­fi­dence in any Russ­ian inves­ti­ga­tion into his death because the Putin regime proved its inca­pac­i­ty to do this with the cov­er up of the Mag­nit­sky murder.

I can only hope that Boris Nemtsov’s lega­cy will ulti­mate­ly bring about the demo­c­ra­t­ic change in Rus­sia he worked his whole life to achieve.

May Boris rest in peace.

Magnitsky Amendment to Serious Crime Bill Introduced in the British Parliament

February 23, 2015

Mag­nit­sky Amend­ment to Seri­ous Crime Bill Intro­duced in the British Parliament

23 Feb­ru­ary 2015 – Dominic Raab MP and a group of 22 mem­bers of the British par­lia­ment from across all par­ties have sub­mit­ted an amend­ment to the Seri­ous Crime Bill, enti­tled the ‘Mag­nit­sky Amend­ment’. Co-spon­sors of the Mag­nit­sky amend­ment include no less than sev­en cur­rent Com­mit­tee Chairs includ­ing Rt Hon Kei­th Vaz MP (Home Affairs Com­mit­tee), Rt Hon Mar­garet Hodge MP (Pub­lic Accounts Com­mit­tee) and Rt Hon Sir Mal­colm Rifkind MP (Intel­li­gence & Secu­ri­ty Committee).

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/20142015/0160/amend/seriouscrimeaddednames.pdf

The Mag­nit­sky Amend­ment will require the gov­ern­ment to pub­lish the names of for­eign cit­i­zens who are not allowed to enter the UK due to their involve­ment in mon­ey laun­der­ing, seri­ous orga­nized crime, tor­ture and gross human rights abuses.

The Mag­nit­sky Amend­ment aims to ensure greater trans­paren­cy con­cern­ing indi­vid­u­als who have been denied entry to the Unit­ed King­dom. It builds on the rec­om­men­da­tion adopt­ed by the For­eign Affairs Com­mit­tee of the British Par­lia­ment in its report review­ing the government’s human rights poli­cies, which urged the pub­li­ca­tion of names of indi­vid­u­als banned from enter­ing the UK due to their involve­ment in the Mag­nit­sky case.

(http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmfaff/116/116.pdf ).

The Mag­nit­sky Amend­ment is also aimed to har­mo­nize British leg­is­la­tion with the U.S. Mag­nit­sky Act of 2012, which requires the US Gov­ern­ment to pub­lish a list of per­sons banned from entry to the Unit­ed States because of involve­ment in cor­rup­tion, includ­ing the cor­rupt crim­i­nal con­spir­a­cy uncov­ered by late Russ­ian lawyer Sergei Mag­nit­sky, respon­si­ble for Magnitsky’s tor­ture and death in Russ­ian cus­tody, and oth­er gross human rights abus­es. At the moment, the US gov­ern­ment has named 32 indi­vid­u­als banned from enter­ing the Unit­ed States under the U.S. Mag­nit­sky Act.

Explain­ing the Mag­nit­sky Amend­ment, Esh­er & Wal­ton MP Dominic Raab said:

“The British pub­lic doesn’t want the hench­men of mur­der­ers and tor­tur­ers, or their bag­men, slip­ping through UK bor­der con­trols, buy­ing up lux­u­ry apart­ments in Kens­ing­ton, send­ing their kids to pub­lic school here and gen­er­al­ly enjoy­ing the high life. Par­lia­ment has a chance to make sure peo­ple know who is being banned from enter­ing Britain, ensure basic moral prin­ci­ple trumps expe­di­en­cy, and send a mes­sage that we’re an open and tol­er­ant coun­try – but not for those with blood on their hands or dirty mon­ey in their pock­ets.”

Rt Hon Sir Men­zies Camp­bell QC MP, said: “This amend­ment would put paid to those whose seri­ous crim­i­nal acts abroad do not pre­vent them from vis­it­ing the Unit­ed King­dom. It is intol­er­a­ble that peo­ple whose behav­iour falls so far short of a prop­er respect for the sanc­ti­ty of life and demo­c­ra­t­ic prin­ci­ples should be able to vis­it Great Britain with­out hin­drance.”

William Brow­der, leader of the Mag­nit­sky jus­tice cam­paign and author of the best-sell­ing book, ‘Red Notice: How I Became Putin’s Num­ber One Ene­my’ said, “At the moment we can’t pros­e­cute the peo­ple who killed Sergei Mag­nit­sky and com­mit oth­er abus­es in Rus­sia because Putin pro­tects them, but Britain should­n’t let these peo­ple into the UK and the gov­ern­ment should make it pub­licly known that they are not wel­come here.”

The full list of co-spon­sors of the amendment:

Dominic Raab MP
Rt Hon Kei­th Vaz MP, Chair­man, Home Affairs Committee

Rt Hon Sir Mal­colm Rifkind MP, Chair, Intel­li­gence & Secu­ri­ty Committee
Rt Hon Mar­garet Hodge MP, Chair, Pub­lic Accounts Committee
John Wit­ting­dale MP, Chair, Cul­ture, Media & Sport
Dr Sarah Wol­las­ton MP, Chair, Health Committee
Charles Walk­er MP, Chair, Pro­ce­dure Committee
David Davies MP, Chair, Welsh Affairs Committee

Rt Hon Sir Men­zies Camp­bell QC MP
Sir Edward Gar­nier QC MP
RT Hon Nor­man Bak­er MP
Rt Hon Ben Brad­shaw MP
Tes­sa Munt MP
Steve Bar­clay MP
Sir Peter Bot­tom­ley MP
Andrew Rosin­dell MP
Tim Loughton MP
Nick de Bois MP
Zac Gold­smith MP
Dr Julian Lewis MP
Dr Phillip Lee MP
Jacob Rees-Mogg MP

Sergei Mag­nit­sky was a lawyer for the Her­mitage Fund, the largest for­eign port­fo­lio investor in Rus­sia. In 2008, he uncov­ered how a group of Russ­ian offi­cials and crim­i­nals stole three invest­ment com­pa­nies from his client and $230 mil­lion they had paid in tax­es to the Russ­ian gov­ern­ment. Russ­ian offi­cials exposed by Sergei Mag­nit­sky had him arrest­ed on false charges. He was kept in deten­tion for 358 days and killed on 16 Novem­ber 2009. Russ­ian offi­cials involved in his case were pro­mot­ed and giv­en state hon­ours in Rus­sia. In the Unit­ed States, they have been sanc­tioned under the Unit­ed States Sergei Mag­nit­sky Rule of Law Account­abil­i­ty Act, which denies them U.S. visa and blocks their assets in U.S. finan­cial institutions.

The strug­gle for jus­tice in Mag­nit­sky case is described in the thriller by Bill Brow­der, Red Notice, which has reached No 8 on New York Times best-sell­er list in the first two weeks since its launch and No 9 on the Sun­day Times best sell­er list in the UK.

For more infor­ma­tion, please contact:

Mag­nit­sky Jus­tice Campaign

+44 2074401777

e‑mail: info@lawandorderinrussia.org

web­site: www.lawandorderinrussia.org

Face­book: http://on.fb.me/hvIuVI

Twit­ter: @KatieFisher__

Bill Browder Issues ‘Red Notice’ on Putin’s Russia Today With Simon & Schuster

February 3, 2015

Bill Brow­der, once the largest inter­na­tion­al investor in Rus­sia, lifts the lid on Krem­lin cor­rup­tion and describes in a dev­as­tat­ing new book titled “Red Notice” how Putin and his regime will stop at noth­ing for the crim­i­nal acqui­si­tion of wealth, includ­ing mur­der. The book is released today, 3 Feb­ru­ary 2015, by Simon & Schuster.

This is the first insider’s descrip­tion of what real­ly hap­pens in Rus­sia today.

Described as “jaw-drop­ping” and “heart-in-your-throat page turn­er,” ‘Red Notice’ destroys every myth that Putin regime has cre­at­ed that it is any oth­er than a mafia state.

“Browder’s busi­ness saga mesh­es well with the sto­ry of cor­rup­tion and mur­der in Vladimir Putin’s Rus­sia, mak­ing Red Notice an ear­ly can­di­date for any list of the year’s best books,” says Nor­man Pearl­s­tine in Fortune.

“The cut and thrust, and the high stakes, make for a zesty tale… It’s a Hol­ly­wood end­ing, right down to the stand­ing ova­tion giv­en by more than 700 Euro­pean mem­bers of Par­lia­ment after pass­ing the leg­is­la­tion,” writes William Grimes in the  New York Times.

“Bill Brow­der writes the way he talks — which is always a good strat­e­gy,” says Nick Cohen in Dai­ly Beast.

“This was a ter­rif­ic book. Part biog­ra­phy, his­to­ry, and thriller it looks at the author’s career in the world of invest­ment and finance,” says G.I Gur­d­ji­eff, one of Amazon’s top 500 review­ers in his 5‑star review.

Among oth­er com­ments on Amazon.com:

“I stayed up way too late read­ing this book…”

“If you only read one book this year, read Red Notice. You won’t regret it a bit.”

“It’s thrilling and it’s real.”

“Excel­lent.”

To learn more, vis­it the ‘Red Notice’ web­site: http://billbrowder.com

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