The British newspaper Daily Mail reported that Hunter Biden, the son of the incumbent US president, helped agree on a plan to close cases against the owner of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, Nikola Zlochevsky.
The newspaper noted that the emails on which it based its report, which it received from Hunter’s missing computer, show that Biden Jr. helped coordinate a plan in partnership with Democratic strategists “to close any cases against the Ukrainian gas company owner.” Burisma, as well as to collect intelligence information about the office of the country’s chief prosecutor.
According to the publication, in one of the letters received by Hunter Biden dated May 12, 2014, it is indicated that he received a letter from Burisma CEO Vadym Pozharsky, which says that the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine may investigate the Zlochevsky case.
The newspaper cited part of the text of the aforementioned letter, which said: “We urgently need your advice on how to use your influence to convey a message or signal to stop what we consider to be politically motivated actions,” adding that the company was a victim. extortion.
At the time, Zlochevsky was under investigation by the FBI and British intelligence for money laundering, and after Hunter Biden received this letter, he hired one of his partners from the law firm Boies, Schiller and Flexner, as well as the investigative firm Nardello & Co. , to solve this problem.
Subsequently, Hunter enlisted the help of Burisma, the Washington-based Blue Star Strategies advisory firm run by former Clinton administration officials, stressing that the ultimate goal of their services should be to close any cases against Zlochevsky in Ukraine.
The newspaper pointed out that advisers hired by Biden Jr. were involved in putting pressure on Foreign Ministry officials on behalf of Burisma, noting that Hunter sought help from his father, who was the U.S. Vice President on the matter. .
The newspaper wrote that Joe Biden, during a visit to Kiev in December 2015, publicly called for the reform of the apparatus of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, and in a conversation with former President Petro Poroshenko threatened to withhold $ 1 billion in American aid to Ukraine if Shokin was not expelled.
Source: News+ daily mail
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