BILL BROWDER Part One

William F. Browder was one of the most prominent foreign investors here, a corporate provocateur who brought the tactics of Wall Street shareholder activists to the free-for-all of post-Soviet capitalism. Until, that is, the Kremlin expelled him in 2005.

Mr. Browder then focused on protecting his billions of dollars of stakes in major Kremlin-controlled companies, like Gazprom, and on fighting to return to a land where he had deep and unusual family ties. So when he ran into Dmitri A. Medvedev, the country's future president, at the World Economic Forum in Davos last year, he saw his chance.

In a brief conversation at a dinner at the Swiss resort, he pressed Mr. Medvedev for help in regaining his Russian visa. Mr. Medvedev, then a top aide to President Vladimir V. Putin, agreed to pass along his request.

A short time later, Mr. Browder's office received a phone call from a senior Moscow police official, who said he had learned of Mr. Browder's new visa application and might be able to help.

''My answer will depend on how you behave, what you provide, and so on,'' the official said, according to a recording of the call supplied by Mr. Browder. ''The sooner we meet and you provide what is necessary, the sooner your problems will disappear.''

Mr. Browder's problems, in fact, were just beginning.. In this talk Bill Browders reveals all and much more!!

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