Going to the police station right now.”īrowder told them that there would be no medical examination. “Urgent: Just was arrested by Spanish police in Madrid on a Russian Interpol arrest warrant. He stepped back into his room and, rather than pick up his toothbrush, sent a tweet. The police were accompanied by the general manager of the hotel, who requested that Browder be allowed to pack. They asked Browder for ID before informing him that they had an Interpol warrant and that he was being placed under arrest. Browder intended to share evidence he had uncovered regarding €30m in criminal proceeds that had been used to buy luxury properties on the coast of Spain.Īt 09.40 the following morning, as he was leaving for an 11:00 meeting, Browder found two officers from the Spanish National Police waiting outside his hotel room. On May 29 2018, the financier-turned-campaigner Bill Browder made a trip to Madrid to meet José Grinda González, a special prosecutor at the Spanish attorney general’s office who has had significant success in dismantling Russian transnational crime syndicates.
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