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==Robert Maxwell==
==Robert Maxwell==
In the late 1980s Browder worked for [[Robert Maxwell]], the father of [[Ghislaine Maxwell]] and former confidant of [[Jeffrey Epstein]]. Epstein, who had maintained a ring for the sexual exploitation of minors for years, died in prison in 2019. Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 in connection with the Epstein affair.
Maxwell was building up an [[Eastern European]] investment fund and Browder was responsible for part of Maxwell's investments and traveled extensively through the former [[communist]] bloc.
Maxwell's business empire, however, collapsed at the beginning of the 1990s. He was sitting on a mountain of [[debt]]. In order to be able to continue running his companies, Maxwell resorted to [[fraud]]. He stole 460 million pounds from the pension fund of the Maxwell Communications Corporation, leaving thousands of employees and pensioners destitute. At the time, the [[BBC]] described the multi-billionaire as the biggest fraudster in [[British history]]. Maxwell died mysteriously in November 1991 while on vacation in the [[Canary Islands]].
"For Browder, working for Maxwell was poison for his career. For a while, no other employer wanted to hire him," writes [[Alex Krainer]], who traced Browder's rise in detail in his book ''The Killing of William Browder''.
==Activities in Russia==
==Activities in Russia==