Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

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prove that judgment has been given in its favour or that it has a good arguable case on an accrued or prospective cause of the applicant must have a substantive cause of action against the respondent (the [potential] defendant); applicable law and practice in the foreign court, evidence as to the nature of the proposed proceedings to be commenced and

The Applicant will [swear and file an affidavit] [cause an affidavit to be sworn and filed] [substantially in the terms of the draft affidavit produced to the court] [confirming the substance of what was said to the court by the Applicant’s counsel/solicitors]. b) if a Respondent is not an individual, to or in the presence of a director, officer, partner or responsible employee. As soon as he was gone, I called Elena, my wife, who was at home in London with our four children. I told her all about the room, how extravagant and ridiculous it was, and how I wished she were with me.

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debtor or another person might be removed from wherever they are, or might be disposed of, dealt with or diminished in value:

No lawyer? What the hell did that mean? This was an EU country. I was sure I had the right to a lawyer. Mind-blowing. Bill Browder takes us down the rabbit hole of Kremlin lawfare where down is up and wrong is right, and powerful Russian interests are trying to upend our legal and political systems. This personal account of Browder's battle for justice is at times terrifying, at times deeply touching - and leads inexorably to a vast money-laundering scheme the Kremlin will seemingly stop at nothing to cover up.' - Catherine Belton When they heard his name, all the color drained from their faces. They practically fell over themselves to offer me a ride to Grinda’s office. iv) copies of the affidavits [or draft affidavits] and exhibits capable of being copied containing the evidence relied upon by the applicant; At last I was able to get ahold of my Spanish lawyer. While I’d been sitting at the police station, he’d been busy calling everyone he knew in Spanish law enforcement, to no avail.to discharge it, and should not appeal to the Court of Appeal without first going before the court at first instance for reconsideration I grabbed my bag and returned to the two waiting officers. I expected to be formally arrested, but they didn’t behave like cops in the movies. They didn’t cuff me, frisk me, or take my things. They just told me to follow them. This example may be modified as appropriate in any particular case. In particular, the court may, if it considers it appropriate, require the applicant’s solicitors, as well as the applicant, to give undertakings.

I was sort of fascinated by Browder himself. He comes across very sympathetically, and he has a kind of everyman quality about him--kind of like a John Grisham protagonist if, instead of being a small town Southern lawyer, he's an international hedge fund manager and master of the universe. Because this isn't a little guy getting accidentally tangled up in a major conspiracy. This is an obscenely wealthy man with resources and connections you and I can't fathom. Part of me thinks it's a miracle this guy is still alive, and part of me thinks, you can't possibly kill someone that rich and connected! Throughout the book, though, he references his fear, and it doesn't feel even a little unrealistic. In fact, the book opens with a truly terrifying episode. His paranoia feels earned. In the common circumstances where proceedings are contemplated but have not yet been formulated when a potential claimant gets wind or suspects that a defendant might be about to dispose of its assets, a freezing injunction application – and therefore a substantive claim – has to be made urgently and within a very tight timescale. The freezer must be obtained before the assets disappear or it will be worthless. I learnt a tremendous amount here about Russian money laundering and the Magnitsky act, all of it interesting but I would have loved a more objective account. This statement would seem to suggest I don't trust the author's view on things, which is not the case. But rather I feel fewer mentions of family skiing vacations in Aspen and all the trans-continental jet setting might have made space for some more interesting analysis. Where the applicant has not yet obtained judgment in its favour the strength of the applicant’s case is relevant in two distinctof control or influence concerning, assets of the judgment debtor or prospective judgment debtor; or (c) there is or may ultimately court — if there is “sufficient prospect” that the judgment will be registered in or enforced by the court: r25.14(2). The Chancery Associates, Ground Floor, The Rolls Building, 7 Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1NL quoting the case number. The telephone number is 020 7947 6733. I bent over the sheet of paper. It was all boilerplate except for a little space for whatever alleged crimes I’d committed. The only word there was “Fraud.” Nothing else.

I then called Ruperto, my Spanish lawyer who’d arranged the meeting with Prosecutor Grinda. No answer there, either. The existence of the danger may be a matter of inference. The type of evidence from which the court can infer the danger was

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He makes a convincing case that Putin’s support for Trump as presidential candidate in 2016 had a great deal to do with getting the US’s Magnitsky legislation repealed (though he may be exaggerating to say that “repealing it was Putin’s top foreign policy objective”). “The Magnitsky Act put all of his wealth and power at risk,” writes Browder. “That made him a very angry man. His crusade against the Magnitsky Act wasn’t just philosophical, it was personal. We had genuinely hit Vladimir Putin’s Achilles’ heel.”