Must-Watch Russian Documentary, Banned in The West: The Magnitsky Act — Behind the Scenes

WHO WAS Sergei Magnitsky, and why are we supposed to believe he was a hero?

The official story:

• Bill Browder was an American businessman who ran a hedgefund in Russia.
• Corrupt Russian cops, with the help of the Russian mafia, stole his business through a convoluted fraud scheme.
• The lead cop grew rich from his stolen money.
• Sergei Magnitsky was one of Browder’s lawyers.
• Magnitsky reported the fraud to the Russian government.
• Magnitsky was arrested and brutally treated in jail.
• 7 riot cops beat Magnitsky to death while he was handcuffed.
• The official cause of death listed ‘heart failure’.
• Browder has since spent all his time and money lobbying Western governments to sanction Russian individuals in honor of Magnitsky, and scored a major breakthrough when US Congress passed the first round of anti-Russia sanctions via the Magnitsky Act in 2012.

Andrei Nekrasov, the Russian film-maker and director of this documentary (The Magnitsky Act — Behind the Scenes) set out as a believer in Browder’s story about the heroic Magnitsky and the evil Russian government. In the course of making a dramatic movie about it, however, Nekrasov and his crew realized that many details didn’t add up. And so their production evolved into an investigative documentary…

What they discovered instead:

• Bill Browder used a simple ‘power of attorney’ to transfer his company to the Russian mafia.
• Magnitsky was never a lawyer, but rather an accountant.
• Magnitsky had worked for Browder since the 1990s.
• Magnitsky met with the Russian mafia to transfer the ownership.
• Browder used this period of unclear ownership to launder over $200 million.
• The mafiosi in question then died mysteriously. Along with several other mafiosi.
• The lead cop bought his house before property values went up.
• The lead cop sold his house to fund a defamation lawsuit against Browder.
• A woman who worked for Browder reported the crime.
• Browder and HSBC called the report false.
• Magnitsky went to jail and was asked to testify.
• No record exists of Magnitsky reporting any crime.
• Magnitsky had diabetes and died of neglect.
• Magnitsky’s mother believes the prison was negligent, but did not intentionally kill her son.
• Browder is using the Magnitsky story to avoid an Interpol warrant for tax fraud in Russia.
• Browder’s sworn testimony in the US contradicted his company’s statements in Russia.
• Browder’s sworn testimony relies on him not remembering details he wrote a best-selling book about.
• Every official Western report concerning this case relies solely on Bill Browder and his sources.

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Source: Signs of the Times