Bill Browder, the financier and bestselling author of "Red Notice," helped create the Magnitsky Act, aimed at freezing the assets of those involved in human rights violations, thereby making himself a target of Vladimir Putin.
Geraldine Proudler, pictured, boasts a formidable reputation in the upper echelons of Britain s legal profession. A senior partner at giant London firm CMS.
A female neighbour of Mikhail Watford, 66, said the property mogul - who made his fortune in oil and gas - feared he was a prime target for the warring Russian president.
Mikhail Watford, 66, was reportedly found hanged by a gardener at his Wentworth estate in Virginia Water, Surrey on Monday, days after Russia declared war on his birth country Ukraine.