Putin claims Browder’s associates never paid taxes on $1.5 billion and contributed $400 million to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
“Business associates of Mr. Browder have earned over $1.5 billion in Russia,” said Putin via an interpreter.
“They never paid any taxes -- neither in Russia or the United States and yet the money escaped the country.”
---and you doubt Putin ?---
there are 40 billionaires that run Russia...
Browder worked with Congress to enact the Magnitsky Act, preventing foreigners who violate human rights from entering the U.S. The legislation is named after Browder’s Russian accountant, Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Russian prison after exposing a tax fraud scheme.
With attempts to reset relations with Russia by former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Browder said appeasement simply doesn’t work with a criminal like Putin.
“Nothing works with this guy,” he said. “He just laughs at this stuff. He looks at it as total weakness.”