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Ivison: Bill Browder's never-ending quest for justice

John Ivison speaks with Bill Browder, the man behind Magnitsky legislation which targets human rights violators, about why he believes Canada's Magnitsky Act needs an update

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Bill Browder said he was the least likely MBA student at Stanford Business School in the late 1980s to become a human rights activist. In the early 2000s, he was the largest foreign investor in Russia through his Hermitage Fund investment vehicle and made a lot of money.

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But that came to a crashing end in 2009, with the murder in custody of his employee, Sergei Magnitsky, after he uncovered a corruption scandal that reached to the very top of Russian society.

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Magnitsky was held in arrested, tortured and killed after 358 days at the age of 37.

“That changed my life completely and I gave up my life as a businessman. I’ve spent the last 17 years on a mission to get justice for Sergei, and a mission to get justice for other victims of authoritarian regimes,” he told the Post’s John Ivison.

He detailed that crusade in his best-selling true-life thrillers, Red Notice, and Freezing Order.

With the help of political allies like former presidential candidate, John McCain, in the U.S. and ex-justice minister, Irwin Cotler,........

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