Bill Browder, who spearheaded the Magnitsky Act, now confirming it was Akhmetshin.

[Gabi Hayes]

18. Still alive, but.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11453125/Bill-Browder-why-I-fear-for-my-life.html

"Greatest capitalist in the world" turned human rights campaigner, Bill Browder is fighting for justice for a Russian friend whose murder he blames on the Kremlin

With his sober navy suit, frameless glasses and cropped salt-and-pepper hair, Bill Browder looks more like a high-street bank manager than the once self-proclaimed greatest capitalist in the world. His soft voice does not obviously denote a man dedicated to human-rights activism.

And you wouldn’t mark him down as a potential target for Russian gangsters whose links may go all the way to President Vladimir Putin.

Yet Browder is all these things, especially the latter. He admits today, from his anonymous London office: ‘‘If Putin wants me dead, I’ll be dead. I could have a thousand bodyguards and it would make no difference. But I’m not petrified. I’m not the kind of person who will cower in fear.’’

His words carry an extra edge today; he is still shocked at the death of Boris Nemtsov, the 55-year-old former deputy Russian prime minister shot four times in the back a week ago. Nemtsov, the most prominent opposition figure to be killed during Putin’s 15-year rule, was murdered while strolling across a bridge within sight of the Kremlin.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/russian-lawyer-corruption-investigation-falls-apartment-article-1.3004984

The lawyer for the family of a Russian attorney, who died following a corruption investigation, has been hospitalized in "critical" condition after falling from the fifth floor of an apartment building in Moscow, associates said.

Nikolai Gorokhov fell from a window on Tuesday, a day before he was supposed to represent the mother of Sergei Magnitsky, whose death has been a focal point in souring U.S.-Russian relations.

Magnitsky said he had uncovered a $230 million fraud scheme by Russian government officials, but was imprisoned and convicted posthumoiusly after being accused of the same fraud.