Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

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SIMON: I have to ask, how are you still with us, given the history Vladimir Putin has of how he settled scores with adversaries? Then in 2003 Putin jailed Mikhail Khodorkovsky, at the time the richest oligarch in Russia, and instead of opposing corruption, began putting the squeeze on the duly intimidated oligarchy. That meant putting a stop to Browder’s busy-bodying by deporting him from Russia in 2005. made in relation to a prospective foreign judgment was within the inherent power of the Western Australian Supreme Court.

The existence of the danger may be a matter of inference. The type of evidence from which the court can infer the danger was what it reasonably believes to be its obligations, contractual or otherwise, under the laws and obligations of the country or state in which those assets are situated or under the proper law of any contract between itself and the Respondent; andc) if the Respondent is an individual, any other person having responsible control of the premises to be searched. THE SEARCH the applicant must take all reasonable steps to ensure that no damage is done to any computer or data, the applicant must have a substantive cause of action against the respondent (the [potential] defendant);

that party should have the earliest practicable opportunity of having the matter reconsidered by the court at a hearing of

In the common circumstances where proceedings are contemplated but have not yet been formulated when a potential claimant gets wind or suspects that a defendant might be about to dispose of its assets, a freezing injunction application – and therefore a substantive claim – has to be made urgently and within a very tight timescale. The freezer must be obtained before the assets disappear or it will be worthless. Real Rating: 4.5* of five, rounded up for the startling information about *why* we are where we are now BROWDER: Well, we already have a Russian military response. I mean, we've been involved in Libya and in Bosnia with no-fly zones where Russia was nearby. This is - I mean, there's absolutely no justification for him invading Ukraine, and it's totally reasonable to do that. But that's a longer conversation. But I do believe that we have to show Putin strength, and this business of saying, you know, we don't want to have a military confrontation with you - we already have a military confrontation. We're already involved. We're already giving them huge amounts of weapons.