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The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes
2016 · Film · documentary · 147 min
Directed by Andrei Nekrasov
What started as a drama about a Russian police plot to steal a billion dollars from a US financier and to murder his faithful tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, has become a real life investigation of contradicting versions of the crime.
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> It's available now through the app DoNotPay, created by 22-year-old wunderkind coder and entrepreneur Joshua Browder.
This "wunderkind coder and entrepreneur" is son of Bill Browder, wanted in Russia for tax fraud [0].
I realise that most HN readers (and the entire western mainstream media) are sympathetic to Browder senior, no doubt due to his personal war with Putin.
Indeed it's difficult to find any detailed criticism of Browder, however if you are interested, here are a few [1], [2].
The docco "The Magnitsky Act. Behind the Scenes" is especially interesting. During it's creation, the film-maker Andrey Nekrasov went from being anti-Putin and believing Browder, to being threatened with libel suits by Browder.
[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-browder/russia-asks-interpol-to-arrest-kremlin-critic-bill-browder-again-letter-idUSKCN1RL0PY
[1] https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/?s=browder
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magnitsky_Act_%E2%80%93_Behind_the_Scenes
""Magnitsky act: behind the scenes" where Bill Browder allegedly laundered his corporate holdings for tax fraud through various handicapped people, and eventually gangsters who were conveniently murdered."
Look, I'm not saying that's a bullshit documentary, but that's literally the kind of smear campaign Putin would execute to try to get talks of the magnitsky act thrown out. I wouldn't take any of that information as factual.
Yes, most likely you're kremlinbot, spreading FUD around.
Movie by the 'top anti-Putin Russian director' is called "The Magnitsky Act. Behind the Scenes", not "The Magnitsky Files".
The support for claims "effort to bury that film" or "top anti-Putin director" is on you though.
And movie “The Magnitsky Files: Organized Crime Inside the Russian Government.” is a different movie and was presented by Browder itself: [0] (looks like it's a story from WaPo but I cannot open WaPo link, so here's the copy) [0} http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/06/magnitsky-documentary-suggests-fraud-collusion-between-russian-officials-police-detectives-2/
Perhaps you could provide some more detail so others might be able to find it as well? For that matter, what's the name of the director? I'm assuming you are not referring to "The Magnitsky Act. Behind the Scenes"[0], right?
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6028446