Bill Browder said the links between the companies show a region-wide level of corruption. “It’s interesting because what it says is that the criminality in that part of the world is all one big group,” Browder said. “And if not one big group specifically, they’re working with the same money launderers. Once you start pulling on the thread of one thing, you find everybody else, which is one of the reasons they were so terrified of [Magnitsky’s] investigation.”