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Then cases were filed against these companies.

The stolen documents and seals were used for transferring the ownership of Hermitage’s holding companies.

In 2007, Browder’s office and his lawyers’ offices were raided.

Find undervalued companies around the world and buy them. His plan was then to build Hermitage Global. He soon covertly sold all the Russian holdings and moved the money out. Then he learned from Russian security police (FSB) insider that this is just the beginning. This was when he was the biggest foreign investor in Russia. And as per Browder, oligarchs, all gave 50% of their company to Putin. That conviction made the oligarch realize the power of Putin.

Vladimir Putin was aligned with Browder all along. And he would use that to fight the Russian oligarch for better governance. Russians, especially, deep inside the company out of jealousy for the oligarch, would share information with him.Russia, rather than taking a loan from the World Bank, decided to default even on its domestic debt. In 1998, the fund was doing great till the Asian financial crisis hit.He fought back and get the offering canceled. Sidanco, one of his best investments, wanted to issue new bonds that excluded minority shareholders like Hermitage (4% owner).He invested in preferred shares which were undervalued and ended up as the best performing fund of 1998. After multiple attempts, he was able to convince billionaire Safra to invest 25M dollars.He decided to start his own fund, Hermitage Capital in 1996 instead. But then he saw that the whole bureaucracy there wants to stratify the division and take the credit for it. He invested and made millions for the firm. These vouchers valued the whole share market of Russia for less than Walmart.

Russia, at that time, handed vouchers to the citizens to be eligible for equity.Finding no other team to join, he declared himself the in-charge of Russia. He, then, joined the Salomon Brothers in London. Later, the company turned out to be a big accounting fraud. While trying to establish himself as an authority on Eastern Europe investments, he came across and joined Maxwell.He, using his Polish friends, decided to apply to invest 2000$ (all of his net worth then). While helping restructure a failing bus company in Poland, he came across a privatization offer.

This was the 90s and these countries were just getting out of the shadow of communism. He insisted on working in Eastern Europe. Bill as a rebel towards his family decided to go into capitalism. His father suffered discrimination because this guy’s grandfather was the leader of the communist party of America.

Bill Browder was born in a Jewish family in the United States.

The story of the rise and fall of the biggest foreign investor in Russia.