Bill Browder

“If the oil price goes down, Russia will go down. You can track the Ruble, you can track the stock market, just off the price of oil.”

“Putin is a totally inscrutable guy. He gives nothing away. People interpreted what they wanted to see in him.”

“I'm not saying anyone should go to nuclear war with Russia. What we should do is contain them and show them that there are consequences if they do terrible things, which is what sanctions are all about.”

“If you can present your case clearly and visually, anyone can understand it. No one has an attention span.”

“On April 27th 2017 the UK approved Magnitsky Sanctions as part of the Criminal Finances Bill. The provision gives the British government the power to seize assets of gross human rights violators.”

“I much more enjoy the company of freedom fighters and justice campaigners than I do the company of hedge fund managers.”

“Don't engage with corrupt officials under any circumstances. The results are always bad.”

“Denmark and Estonia both refused to prosecute the Danske Bank case when we filed in 2013.”

“Since 2012, Putin has made it perhaps his largest foreign policy priority to have the Magnitsky Act repealed. But none of his efforts have worked. Not only has it not been repealed, it's spread to six additional countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, the Baltic states and Gibraltar.”

“If I could do it all over again, I would have never gone to Russia.”

“I am definitely not under British protection. I have to protect myself. I am not M.I.6. I am not C.I.A. I am not anything.”

“My grandfather was a justice fighter. I go to Russia and I find worse injustice than he had ever discovered. My task was investing people's money. But this was far beyond that. I became this sort of crusader.”

“On November 13, 2005, as I was flying into Moscow from a weekend away, I was stopped at Sheremetyevo airport, detained for 15 hours, deported, and declared a threat to national security.”

“I grew up in Chicago, but for the last 28 years I've lived in Moscow and London, and am now a British citizen. From 1996 to 2005, my firm, Hermitage Capital, was one of the largest investment advisers in Russia with more than $4 billion invested in Russian stocks.”

“I'm very realistic about who's coming to my defense. I am my defense.”