German Press Council tosses complaint brought by Bill Browder after his Magnitsky fable debunked

The German Press Council today rejected Bill Browder's complaint against newsmagazine Der Spiegel. Browder had brought the complaint in December after the magazine published a story largely debunking Browder's version of what happened in the case of Sergei Magnitsky, a former Browder employee who died in a Moscow prison in 2009.

According to Browder, Magnitsky had unearthed a $300million tax fraud being perpetrated by a couple of crooked cops, who had him killed in prison to shut him up. It's a yarn that fell on receptive ears in Western capitals, where politicians will eagerly swallow any nonsense they can use to smear Putin.



That's our former Foreign Minister with her "old friend" Bullshittin' Bill Browder in 2016. Meanwhile, Browder has been found guilty of tax evasion and fraud in Russia, which he claims was a politically motivated hoax intended to intimidate him. Freeland was one of many who should have looked into Browder's story more closely before falling for it hook, line, and sinker.