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Ukrainian MP Andriy Derkach revealed on Wednesday that former Vice President Joe Biden received $900,000 from Burisma Group for lobbying activities, citing materials related to an investigation.
Via Interfax:
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. –Interfax
“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,” said Derkach.
Derkach also puiblicized sums of money transferred to Burisma Group representatives – including Joe Biden’s son Hunter.
“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 added.
“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.”
“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 added.
Via Interfax:
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.
“Considering international corruption in public is a way-out for President Zelensky. I am certain that he is not involved in international corruption,” Derkach said.
It was reported earlier that Derkach publicized correspondence between the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and officers of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. According to publicized correspondence, starting from July 14, 2017, the lists of criminal proceedings undertaken by NABU officers were sent from the electronic mailbox of Polina Chyzh, an assistant to NABU first deputy head Gizo Uglava, to the electronic mailbox of Hanna Yemelianova, a legal specialist of the anti-corruption program of the U.S. Justice Department at U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.
Derkach says he will publish the leaked documents on his Facebook account, and will initiate the creation of an ad hoc parliamentary investigative commission, “and has already requested launching a criminal case against Ukrainian officials into interference into U.S. elections,” according to the report.
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Another opposition scam that will blow up in the face of Democrats.
I can’t wait for 2020 to see the Demoncrats lose and blaming it all Susan Sarandon and Jill Stein.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, did it really fall?
The Dems have already blown themselves to bits, but CIANN will not report it.
Sounds like a good Walking Dead sequel.
Democrats will claim that this Ukrainian MP is a Russian agent.
They just pretend he never said it – no news in all US media.
I’m going to call it MLM, for all the mainlining dope they promote to their readership.
All this theatrics by paid actor politicians pretending to run a real government,
when will it be finished so that healthcare, immigration and all our wars can be resolved? Never.
Well done the Daily Mail. Shocking story, only appears in one single newspaper or media today in UK or US despite it coming out on Wednesday morning in English on the Ukraine agency interfax.
https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/press-conference/617936.html
Funny, even the Daily Mail misplaces it as translated from ‘Russian’ Interfax.
Anyway, did anyone really expect Biden Sr. to keep his snout directly out of the trough while Jr. reaped the benefits?
Quote: “Derkach says he will publish the leaked documents on his Facebook account……”
Where they’ll be dispatched to the cyber graveyard post haste.
Well, that was quick. Already disappeared. Fast work there, Zuck.
“This is one of the documents released by Derkach on Wednesday, which purports to show payments leading from Burisma to an entity linked to Joe Biden” (Blank)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7557085/Rudy-Giuliani-claims-Joe-Biden-received-900-000-lobbying-fees-Burisma.html
Isn’t it high time someone subjected the manafort payledger to a forensic handwriting and ink specialist by now? I mean, c’mon. Not that Manafort’s not a sleazeball but I give it 5:1 odds that the SBU forged it.
I hope these 4uckers burn, I think about the people of Donbass, Lughansk, and more in the UA east and how they’ve been marginalized to less than collateral damage. Just for the sake of lining already full pockets. These pigs should burn.
A slow roast on a tandem spit along with ol’ Porkshanks to be exact.
No, I’d rather see him lose one arm and half his family, like the Tuvs, or have half his face blown off and die on camera like Inna Kukuruza, or be blown in two while pushing a baby carriage in a Donetsk park and so much more, all for practicing self-determination. After all, Biden’s directly responsible.
Purposely shelling civilians is a war crime, even if you did let neo-nazis do your dirty work. You welcomed them with open arms, in the US no less, Uncle Joe, you and your pirate crew. And remember that and weep, whoever may read this.
Just a bitter taste of some of Biden and company’s handiwork:
Hang her on your parlor wall, Joe. You earned it.
If that had happened to the opposing side, it’d have immediately been on the front cover of Newsweek and been used as an excuse for a NATO bombing of Donetsk. Ponder that for a while.
Yep, and even if it didn’t happen as advertised, they’d just make it up. That’s Newsweek for you, the PR dept. for the Atlantic Council and Pompeo’s lying, cheating, stealing 101 courses at Langley U.
Good! The rats are turning on each other.
Now let’s see if Smilin’ Joseph and Cunter Bidensky his lovely son make a run for Israel and ask for asylum as they are being so very persecuted.
Joe Biden has always postured as politician working to advance the welfare of the working man. His supporters promoted him as ‘lunch bucket’ Joe. Of course, his political beneficiaries were primarily huge corporate enterprises, primarily in the financial services sector. I think it’s safe to say Joe’s ‘bucket’ is indeed very well stuffed. $900,000 will provide for a very nice lunch.
Biden’s just a wannabe labor union boss. You know, the sort that with few exceptions throughout America’s history, have been on the take.
Well, if he walks like one and he talks like one and he can’t keep his hands in his own pockets like one, then ………..
Afterthought: He’s a friggin’ corrupt war criminal turd. I’m tired of mincing words.
Can’t blame Biden. He needed some landscaping and a new pool liner and he had to fire his illegals because he was under too much scrutiny from past corrupt deals. Otherwise, he could have settled for $300,000 in porksheesh and let Jr. keep the rest and finally put some socks on his kids.