Alex Christoforou
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The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the news coming from Interfax Ukraine that Ukrainian MP Andriy Derkach claims that former US Vice President Joe Biden received $900,000 from Burisma Group for lobbying activities.
Derkach cited materials related to an investigation, which he has yet to reveal, which can document the corruption and payoff between Ukraine’s shadow energy company and Joe Biden.
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Ukraine MP claims to have documents linking Joe Biden to $900K payoff by The Duran
The Duran Quick Take: Episode 333. The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the news coming from Interfax Ukraine that Ukrainian MP Andriy Derkach claims that former US Vice President Joe Biden received $900,000 from Burisma Group for lobbying activities.
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden received $900,000 for lobbying activities from Burisma Group, Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada member Andriy Derkach said citing investigation materials.
Derkach publicized documents which, as he said, “describe the mechanism of getting money by Biden Sr.” at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine’s press center in Kyiv on Wednesday.
“This was the transfer of Burisma Group’s funds for lobbying activities, as investigators believe, personally to Joe Biden through a lobbying company. Funds in the amount of $900,000 were transferred to the U.S.-based company Rosemont Seneca Partners, which according to open sources, in particular, the New York Times, is affiliated with Biden. The payment reference was payment for consultative services,” Derkach said.
He also publicized sums that were transferred to Burisma Group representatives, in particular Hunter Biden, a son of the former U.S. vice president.
“According to the documents, Burisma paid no less than $16.5 million to [former Polish President, who became an independent director at Burisma Holdings in 2014] Aleksander Kwasniewski, [chairman of the Burisma board of independent directors] Alan Apter, [Burisma independent director] Devon Archer and Hunter Biden [who joined the Burisma board of directors in 2014],” Derkach said.
“Using political and economic levelers of influencing Ukrainian authorities and manipulating the issue of providing financial aid to Ukraine, Joe Biden actively assisted closing criminal cases into the activity of former Ukrainian Ecology Minister Mykola Zlochevsky, who is the founder and owner of Burisma Group,” he said.
“Biden’s fifth visit to Kyiv on December 7-8, 2015 was devoted to making a decision on the resignation of [then Ukrainian Prosecutor General] Viktor Shokin over the case of Zlochevsky and Burisma. Loan guarantees worth $1 billion that the United States was to give to Ukraine was the point of pressure. Biden himself admitted exerting pressure in his speech at the Council of Foreign Relations in January 2018, calling Shokin ‘son of a bitch who was fired’,” Derkach said.
The timeline of events proves that the U.S. linked the Zlochevsky case to loan guarantees, he said.
After the decree dismissing Shokin was published on April 3, 2016, the governments of the United States and Ukraine signed a loan guarantee agreement worth $1 billion, several months later, on June 3, he said.
“In this case, there are facts should be subject to investigation. There is an agency that has powers to investigate them; the U.S. Department of Justice. If the Ukrainian Prosecutor General signs documents and send them to U.S. Department of Justice without any requests, he will accomplish his mission,” he said, adding that the Ukrainian Prosecutor General has such powers.
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What I find I guess you can say “interesting” is that so many people think “There must be a plan because nobody could be this stupid”. The depressing fact is that they are this stupid and that probably “We ain’t seen nothing yet”. The overreach, arrogance and hubris of elites at the end of empire is mind boggling. It’s that these elites have over the decades reached a point where they have inbred themselves to such levels of incompetence that a rational person looking at it from outside says “What the F*ck were you thinking?”. They do formulate plans but… Read more »
” reached a point where they have inbred themselves to such levels of incompetence”
So very true .It is sometimes hard to watch the stupidity of it all .
A bigger rug indeed is needed but just will not cover it all up.
This is sort of a catch 22. They can’t assert these documents as being fake without raising the question of why any previous documents of Ukrainian origin shouldn’t be suspected of being fake.
From the UK’s Telegraph. Notice the universal pattern:
“Since spring, Giuliani has been the leading promoter of the theory that Mr Biden, as vice president, lobbied to remove a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the company that employed his son.”
It’s not a ‘theory’. It’s not a ‘conspiracy theory’. It’s a documented (by Biden himself) fact.
And Biden didn’t ‘lobby’. He threatened to withhold a billion dollars if they didn’t do as ordered.
How do these intel-infiltrated, blatant propaganda rags get away with this stuff? It’s mind boggling.
Pelosi’s reference to Ahab makes sense now!