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Hermitage Capital, once the largest foreign investor in Russia, has filed documents in the US alleging that Russian authorities and other Western investors conspired to steal hundreds of millions of dollars which were laundered through New York banks. Browder, who was expelled from Russia in 2005 after making statements which were critical of the government, he said that "subsidiary companies he had formed in Russia to invest in Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly, were used by others to acquire a fraudulent tax refund of $230 million," according to The New York Times.