After pacing the room and hyperventilating for several minutes, I made a vow to Sergei, to his family and to myself that I wouldn’t let the people who killed him get away with it. The pain I felt upon hearing of his death was physical, as if someone had plunged a knife into my gut. I knew that he had been mistreated, but the fact that he’d been killed was beyond my worst nightmare.
He’d been arrested and detained in Moscow for nearly a year after exposing Russian government corruption. It was my lawyer, Eduard, who had a horrible message to relay: “Bill, Sergei is dead.” Sergei Magnitsky was one of my lawyers in Russia. He is the author of Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice (Simon and Schuster), from which this article is adapted.
Bill Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005.
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