Who’s Bill Browder?
Apparently Vladimir Putin says that he has never heard of William Browder of Heritage:
At the Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, in July 2006, a reporter asked Putin about Browder, a U.S.-born British citizen who runs hedge fund Hermitage Capital Management, once the largest foreign holder of Russia stocks. “To be honest, I don’t know why this particular person has been refused entry to Russia,” Putin shot back. “I can imagine that this person has broken the laws of the country, and if others do the same, we’ll refuse them entry, too.” But in a Friday interview with a French newspaper, Putin sang a different tune. “I never heard of that name before,” Putin told Le Monde. “If this person thinks his rights have been violated, let him go to court.”