Burisma paid Joe Biden $900,000 for lobbying – Ukrainian MP
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KYIV. Oct 9 (Interfax-Ukraine) – 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.
"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 also said that NABU-leak materials will be published on his Facebook account and materials that he got from investigating journalists have already been passed to Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigations and the Prosecutor's General Office.
He also said he 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. The court session is scheduled for October 21, he said.
Burisma Holdings is a Cyprus-registered gas producing company holding assets in Ukraine. It is one of Ukraine's top-three independent gas producers headquartered in Kyiv. Zlochevsky is the founder and the ultimate beneficiary owner of the company.
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"Burisma paid Joe Biden $900,000 for lobbying – Ukrainian MP"
Not "Prudent" at this time !
The "Left" can only concentrate on one "issue" at a time.
Did you know the "Left" still hasn't figured out they actually have more fingers than the middle finger yet ?
And don't ask them about the "Thumb". It will really confuse the hell outa them.
Why wasn't Hunter Biden paid as much as Manafort? Bargain basement lobbyist, Hunter Biden?
So where is the illegal part? Hunter worked for a private company, they could have paid him trillions of dollars and there is still nothing wrong with it. If making money in other countries was a crime, all of trumps kids would be in prison right now.
Still waiting for someone to actually do an honest report on it.
All we have so far from the media is ….."Pishposh, But Trump" !
So you don't know where the illegal part is either.
Are you just "Essencing like Schifty" too....or just letting us know you've been given NO Info on this, yet you'll defend anyway ?
How about our President having a conflict of interest with Turkey? Hey, go in an invade Syria and thanks for that Trump Hotel! Ching Ching.
I swear there is more than "One" country on this planet !
Hey look, double standard.
Hey look....two different subjects !
One "IS" the "Topic" of the "Seed"....one "ISN'T" !
Can you guess which is which ?
I am talking about our President having a hotel in Turkey. You don't think that he might have made some decisions over his own self interests?
Off Topic ?
CoC #4. Stay on topic per the article
I have just read that Joe got bucks from Ukraine Lobbying.
your thoughts ?
But the topic is about what may or may not be questionable ethics.. and I am just showing a comparison. That is very much on topic.
I've noted the same thing.....but get things like this:
Deleted Off Topic (per author/seeder) [Perrie Halpern R.A.]
Goose Gander thing I'd say !
Sex has nothing to do with this seeded article.
maybe jest didn't want their name put out there. did you think of that ?
I'm not going to meta on BF's article.
Okay.
I'm just doing a comparing thing to the comment I was responding to....which was the Topic at that time line.
BF, I love you more than my enormous collection of body-enhancing Spanx, so please tell me you have seeded this just to get a bite...or two.
I see that we are now getting our anti-American foreign propaganda straight from the source. That is pretty brazen. In other news two of Rudy Giuliani's close Ukrainian associates were arrested today on campaign finance charges. These guys appear to also be tied up in these smears on Biden. It is no wonder Putin and his pawns are so desperately trying to divert everyone's attention. I tell you, this kind of stuff would make Tokyo Rose and Axis Annie blush. Plainly some people really must hate America. They are playing for the other team. THE RUSSIAN TEAM...