He was a friend of former Russian Federal Security Service officer Aleksander Litvinenko, who was killed by a radioactive substance in London in 2006, and his 2007 documentary about the case premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Nekrasov set out to make a docudrama about Magnitsky, but after having trouble believing how Magnitsky was assassinated, set out to do some background research into the story. As he conducts his research, he begins to unravel Browder’s fabrication which was designed to conceal his own corporate responsibility for criminal theft of the billion dollars which was stolen from the Russian government. As Browder’s widely accepted story collapses, Magnitsky is revealed not to be a whistleblower but a likely abettor to the fraud who died in prison not from assassination but from the banal neglect of his medical condiction.