The FBI was informed by a confidential human source (CHS) in 2017 of a possible bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter coercing executives at the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma into paying them to get rid of a prosecutor investigating the company.
[RELATED: Grassley Claims Ukrainian Exec Has Audio of Bidens Discussing Bribery Scheme]
According to a bombshell FBI document publicly released Thursday by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the CHS had several meetings with Burisma executives starting in late 2015, during the Obama Administration.
The CHS first provided details of those meetings to the FBI in 2017, and later summarized them in a June 30, 2020 re-interview.
The first meeting described by the CHS was in late 2015 or 2016, when Burisma was discussing its interest in purchasing a U.S.-based oil and gas business for the purpose of conducting an IPO in the U.S.
CHS was asked to give “additional counsel” to the Burisma board because CFO Vadim Pojarski told CHS that “Hunter Biden was not smart.”
The Burisma CFO told the FBI’s source that the company had hired Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.”
At another meeting in 2016, one to two months after the first, CHS told Burisma executives Oleksander Ostapenko and Mykola Zlochevksy that Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin’s investigation into Burisma would negatively affect the company’s prospective U.S. IPO.
According to the document, Zlochevsky replied something to the effect of, “Don’t worry Hunter will take care of all those issues through his dad.”
The FBI’s source advised Zlochevsky that it would be “problematic to raise capital in the U.S. given Shokin’s investigation into Burisma as nobody in the U.S. would invest in a company that was the subject of a criminal investigation.”
When the source told Zlochevsky to hire an attorney for $50,000, Zlochevsky laughed and said that “it cost 5 (million) to pay one Biden, and 5 (million) to another Biden.”
In the same meeting, Zlochevksy said that Hunter Biden “was stupid, and his dog was smarter,” but that he need to keep Hunter on board “so everything will be okay.”
“Don’t worry, this thing will go away anyway,” Zlochevsky told source — which the source understood to mean that Zlochevsky had already paid the Bidens to “deal with Shokin.”
Shortly after the 2016 presidential election, Zlochevsky told CHS that he was unhappy Trump won the election.
The source asked Zlochevsky if he was concerned about Burisma’s involvement with the Bidens.
Zlochevsky told the source that he “didn’t want to pay the Bidens” and he was “pushed to pay” them, using a Russian-criminal-slang word for “forced or coerced to pay,” according to the source.
“I hope you have some back up (proof) for you words (namely that Zlochevsky was ‘forced’ to pay the Bidens),” the source said to Zlochevsky, according to the FBI document.
Zlochevsky replied that he “has many text messages and ‘recordings’ that show that he was coerced to make such payments.”
At the end of the FBI document the CHS confirms that he had a total of 17 recordings involving the Bidens; two of the recordings included Joe Biden, and the remaining 15 involved only Hunter Biden.
The source also claimed that Zlochevsky had two documents, which he understood to be wire transfers or bank records, that evidence some payments to the Bidens were made for prosecutor Shokin’s firing.
In a 2018 interview at the Council on Foreign Relations, President Biden bragged that as Vice President in the Obama administration he had threatened to withhold $1 Billion in congressionally approved funding to Ukraine unless the state prosecutor Viktor Shokin was fired.
President Joe Biden has continuously denied that he has had any involvement in his son’s business dealings.
As of Thursday evening, the mainstream media — both nationally and in Maine — had declined to cover the sensational information Grassley revealed.
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With the 2 Tiered Injustice System controlled by the Deep State, the guilty parties will never face prosecution while Donald Trump faces grand jury after grand jury for frivolous and phony charges.
If people on the Left would only realize how corrupt not just their party is, but how corrupt the entire political system is, we might all have a chance of working together to build a better nation. But sadly, most on the left have become tone deaf to any utterance of dissenting opinions of their party of false messiahs. They shelter safely in their Echo Chambers working themselves into hysterical frenzies worthy of copious Thorazine shots.
“As of Thursday evening, the mainstream media…had declined to cover the sensational information Grassley revealed.” Shocking!
I didn’t check them all, but I didn’t see any articles this morning either. The “journalists” were too busy gleefully praising Comrade Mills for signing a FULL TERM abortion bill.
This informant’s statement hasn’t been verified by anyone. Saying something is one thing, proving it is another I would like to see the evidence that backs up the informant’s claim. Just like with President Trump and his claims of voter fraud, never could prove it in court, even courts with judges he appointed including our Supreme Court. So go ahead and jump on the bandwagon if you want. I’ll wait for the evidence before making a decision.
Where are the recordings – he didn’t turn them over to the FBI. He could have turned them over to the committee but hasn’t. Sigh…