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Freezing Order de Bill Browder

Freezing Order

Autor Bill Browder
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 apr 2022

Imagineați-vă o celulă înghețată dintr-o închisoare moscovită unde opt polițiști bat un om până la moarte. Acesta nu este începutul unui roman de ficțiune, ci momentul care a transformat un finanțist de pe Wall Street în cel mai mare inamic al Kremlinului. Descoperim aici misterul unei averi colosale, clădite pe scheme de returnare de taxe, care duce direct la vârful puterii de la Moscova. Freezing Order nu este doar o cronică a corupției, ci o mărturie despre prețul sângeros al adevărului într-un sistem care nu iartă nicio trădare.

Urmărim cum Bill Browder și echipa sa traversează un labirint financiar ce pornește din Rusia, trece prin bănci din Cipru și statele baltice, ajungând până în inima democrațiilor occidentale. Pe măsură ce autoritățile încep să înghețe activele suspecte, represaliile devin tot mai personale și mai violente. Abordarea jurnalistică evocă Once Upon a Time in Russia prin prisma portretizării oligarhiei, dar perspectiva este mult mai viscerală, fiind scrisă de un om care se află permanent pe lista neagră a serviciilor secrete.

În contextul operei sale, această lucrare continuă misiunea începută în Red Notice. Dacă prima carte a fost un strigăt pentru justiție în numele lui Sergei Magnitsky, Freezing Order extinde investigația către mecanismele prin care banii murdari influențează politica globală, inclusiv alegerile din SUA. Ritmul este cel al unui roman polițist, dar miza este reală: supraviețuirea într-un război asimetric împotriva unui adversar care dispune de resurse nelimitate și de o lipsă totală de scrupule.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781398506084
ISBN-10: 1398506087
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: None
Dimensiuni: 153 x 231 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:Export/Airside
Editura: Simon&Schuster

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor pasionați de geopolitică și investigații financiare. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere clară a modului în care funcționează spălarea de bani la nivel de stat și riscurile enorme pe care și le asumă un avertizor de integritate. Este un document esențial pentru a înțelege tensiunile actuale dintre Rusia și Occident, oferind un motiv concret pentru care sancțiunile economice sunt principala armă împotriva regimurilor autoritare.

Despre autor

Bill Browder, fondator și CEO al Hermitage Capital Management, a fost cel mai mare investitor străin în Rusia până în 2005, când a fost declarat amenințare la adresa securității naționale. După ce avocatul său, Sergei Magnitsky, a fost ucis în detenție în 2009 pentru că a demascat o fraudă guvernamentală masivă, Browder și-a dedicat viața campaniei globale pentru drepturile omului. Este arhitectul „Legii Magnitsky”, adoptată în numeroase țări pentru a sancționa oficialii corupți. Cu studii la University of Chicago și Stanford Business School, el îmbină expertiza financiară cu activismul politic de nivel înalt.

Recenzii

'Riveting...An eye-opening exposé of the lengths Putin’s cronies will go to hide their crimes and punish their accusers.'
'Mind-blowing. Bill Browder takes us down the rabbit hole of Kremlin lawfare where down is up and wrong is right, and powerful Russian interests are trying to upend our legal and political systems. This personal account of Browder's battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching - and leads inexorably to a vast money-laundering scheme the Kremlin will seemingly stop at nothing to cover up.'
'[Freezing Order] tells the story of Browder’s quest to establish a global regime for sanctioning Russians involved in corruption and criminality. But it reads like an international spy thriller. If its subject matter weren’t so grave, the book could be said to have all the elements of a high-octane drama. Murder. Conspiracy. Piles of dirty money. Sexual intrigue. Freezing Order shudders with the constant threat of assassination, abduction or sudden, extreme violence. It is a tense and gripping read.
'Freezing Order is a gripping tale of assassinations, legal battles and billions in cash. It would be entertaining fiction, but as a true story it’s a warning and a roadmap for fighting back against the waves of crime and corruption emanating from Putin’s Russia and other dictatorships. Bill Browder has shown that one man with courage can make a difference, and that even the most powerful regimes have weak spots. It’s an inspiring message we should all heed, and with urgency.'
'This tale is full of villains - not just the Russians...but also the politicians, lawyers and judges in the West who carry out the Kremlin's dirty work. Despite the complexity of the affair, Browder has made his story into a real page turner. Amid the horrors being reported every day from Ukraine, it also provides a highly readable insight into the true nature of the regime that is responsible for them..'
'Browder’s account of how he stood up to Putin in the face of danger, arrest warrants, and bullying is mandatory reading for anyone who wants to understand the tactics of modern autocracy.'
'[A] zesty new book about the theft, extortion, intimidation, lies and murder that are the Russian state’s daily levers of power...a breakneck financial thriller compelling breathless attention...splendidly readable... One of the most sobering aspects of Browder’s rollicking, dangerous adventure [is] that late-period Putin has found it so easy to manipulate our western democracies from the inside.'
'Absolutely gripping. Bill Browder’s new book on the Magnitsky affair follows the money all the way to the top of Russia’s murderous kleptocracy. Freezing Order ought to be compulsory reading. Luckily it reads like a thriller.'
'It’s an incredible story, told with pace and panache, that reads like a thriller. There’s something deeply offending to our sense of justice about an innocent man framed by powerful forces...but what is most troubling here is how acquiescent the western establishment has been to Russian crimes and lies.'
'Bill Browder's thrilling new book digs deeper into the kleptocratic world enabled and supported by the Russian state, for the benefit of the most powerful and well-connected crooks in Russia and beyond. This exploration of the dark heart of corruption asks the question of what one person can do in the face of such insidious corruption, and makes us ask what we can find in ourselves to stand up and resist those forces that would steal, decieve and murder for their own gain.'
'An essential work by someone who understood long before the rest of the world did just how far corrupt Russian officials and businesspeople will go to defend their ill-gotten wealth, and how foreign lawyers, lobbyists and public relations firms enable them... He expertly walks us through the ins and outs of various legal strategies and developments that include enough high drama, plot twists and colourful characters for a movie. Browder’s Freezing Order is not just a cracking good read - it is a reminder of the urgency of addressing the global plague of money laundering.'
'Could not be more timely in illustrating why the support of Russia’s super-rich and their funds have become crucial to Putin’s powerbase.'
'Fast paced and engaging, Browder’s book reads like a spy novel, but it also makes a powerful and remarkably prescient case for the need to use all the legal and financial tools available to separate Putin’s financiers from their foreign-held bank accounts and luxury yachts.'
'Gripping reading... there is no question that Browder’s dogged persistence against a backdrop of undoubted stress and personal courage have made an important contribution in highlighting the failures of contemporary Russia and the west alike, and offered new tools with potential to try to redress them.'
'A must-read for fans of Red Notice... Revealing and damning, exposing Putin and his minions as little more than greedy international criminals. A timely book combining mystifying financial shenanigans with a fast-paced crime saga.'

Descriere

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 2 BESTSELLER  **  THE NEW YORK TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER
‘More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true’ Stephen Fry
‘Mind-blowing...Browder's battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching’ Catherine Belton
‘A jaw-dropping exposé by Putin’s anti-corruption nemesis’ Daily Telegraph

Following his explosive international bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin’s number one enemy by exposing Putin’s campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill anyone who stands in his way.

When Bill Browder’s young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life’s mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the Americas, they were shocked to discovered that Vladimir Putin himself was a beneficiary of the crime.

As law enforcement agencies began freezing the money, Putin retaliated. He and his cronies set up honey traps, hired process servers to chase Browder through cities, murdered more of his Russian allies, and enlisted some of the top lawyers and politicians in America to bring him down. Putin will stop at nothing to protect his money. As Freezing Order reveals, it was Browder’s campaign to expose Putin’s corruption that prompted Russia’s intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.

At once a financial caper, an international adventure and a passionate plea for justice, Freezing Order is a timely and stirring morality tale about how one man can take on one of the most ruthless villains in the world.

Notă biografică

Bill Browder is the founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management and was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005. Since 2009, when his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was murdered in prison after uncovering a $230 million fraud committed by Russian government officials, Browder has been leading a campaign to expose Russia’s endemic corruption and human rights abuses. Before founding Hermitage, Browder was vice president at Salomon Brothers. He holds a BA in economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Stanford Business School.