New Criminal Case Launched In Russia Against William Browder - Prosecutor General's Office

A new criminal case has been launched against Hermitage Capital head William Browder in Russia, Nikolai Atmonyev, an adviser to Russia's prosecutor general, said Monday.

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 19th November, 2018) A new criminal case has been launched against Hermitage Capital head William Browder in Russia, Nikolai Atmonyev, an adviser to Russia's prosecutor general, said Monday.

"Last Friday, a decision was made regarding Browder to initiate a criminal case for creating a criminal organization and directing it, that is, for the crime provided for by Part 1 of Article 210 of Russia's Criminal Code," Atmonyev said at a briefing of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.

He said Russia would soon put Browder on an international wanted list under the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime.

Atmonyev also said companies of Cyprus, Latvia and Switzerland, which had been laundering hundreds of millions of Dollars for Browder, had been established.