Bill Browder biography

Interview

A Conversation With Bill Browder, author of Red Notice, a devastating exposé of corruption and cronyism in Putin's Russia.

Bill, your story reads like a spy novel—isn't it dangerous to be telling this story in a book, for all the world to see?
In many senses, it's dangerous for me NOT to be telling this story. The Putin regime goes after their enemies all over the world and often tries to kill them in a plausibly deniable way. By going public and telling the world the whole story, if anything happens to me, you will know exactly who did it. And the people who are thinking about doing something terrible to me will know that you know. That may not prevent the worst from happening, but it does create a real and profound consequence for Putin and his henchmen.

Is the Russian government still trying to affect your life? In what ways?
The Russian government is using all tools to go after me. They have organized multiple trumped-up criminal cases in Russia, and are asking Interpol to arrest me and have me extradited back to Russia. They are using Western courts to subpoena our servers and confidential information to find out where all our people and assets are and how we protect ourselves. They are employing private detective agencies to organize an illegal rendition, and they are using their massive television and media propaganda machine to...