British investment fund manager Bill Browder was released from a Madrid police station on Wednesday because an Interpol arrest warrant for him was no longer valid, a Spanish police source said.
The source could not confirm that the Interpol arrest warrant came from Russia. Neither could she confirm why the arrest warrant was no longer valid.
The head of the investment fund Hermitage Capital Management is a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Browder led a campaign to expose corruption and punish Russian officials he blames for the 2009 death of Sergei Magnitsky, who he employed as a lawyer.
“In the back of the Spanish police car going to station on the Russian arrest warrant. They won’t tell me which station,” Browder sent from his Twitter account, including a photo of two police officers in the front of a squad car.
