November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing
isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to deat
h by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior M
inistry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of tax
es paid to the state by one of the world's most successful hedge funds.
Magni
tsky's brutal killing has remained uninvestigated and unpunished to this day. Hi
s farcical posthumous show-trial brought Putin's regime to a new low in the eyes
of the international community. Red Notice is a searing expose of the wholesale
whitewash by Russian authorities of Magnitsky's imprisonment and murder, slicin
g deep into the shadowy heart of the Kremlin to uncover its sordid truths.
