Money, Murder and Megalomaniacs

Monica Attard spent 28 years at the ABC, working across radio and television. She was the ABC’s Russia correspondent between 1989 and 1994 and again between 2003 and 2005. She is the author of Russia, Which Way Paradise? 

Bill Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005, when he was denied entry to the country after exposing widespread corruption. Since 2009, when his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was murdered in Russian police custody, he has been leading a global campaign to expose the human rights abuses endemic in Russia. The ‘Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act’ was signed into US law in 2012, imposing visa bans and asset freezes on certain officials involved in Magnitsky’s death. His latest book is Freezing Orders.