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FILE PHOTO: US-born British investor Bill Browder. \u00a9 Reuters \/ Yuri Gripas<\/p><\/div>\n
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British investor Bill Browder has lashed out at Der Spiegel weekly by accusing it of distorting the story of the death of his auditor Sergey Magnitsky. The outlet maintains it is Browder who has some questions to answer.<\/p>\n
Der Spiegel published an investigative bombshell last month, detailing various flaws in the story about Magnitsky\u2019s death that Browder \u2013 a US-born investor who became Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s self-proclaimed \u201cenemy number one\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 used to convince Western governments to impose sanctions against Russian officials over supposedly endemic human rights violations.<\/p>\n In his narrative, Browder portrayed the late auditor as a courageous whistleblower, who was heinously and deliberately killed by the Russian authorities in a bid to silence him.<\/p>\n Following a\u00a0rigorous analysis\u00a0<\/a>of a trove of documents linked to the auditor\u2019s death in 2009, including some materials published by Browder\u2019s own people, Der Spiegel\u2019s Benjamin Bidder concluded that significant parts of this story were not actually true. Magnitsky has never been a whistleblower, and he was not a victim of murder, although he did suffer\u00a0\u201cterrible injustice,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the reporter concluded.<\/p>\n Bill Browder has filed complaint against our reporting. @DerSPIEGEL<\/a> argues his accusations are withouht any base and rejects the criticism. Please find our statement as well as some of our sources below. https:\/\/t.co\/7LejWUkF73<\/a><\/p>\n — Benjamin Bidder (@BenjaminBidder) December 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n