46.9 F
New York
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Hunter Biden Claims that He Can Provide Information on Russian Oligarch Who Was Targeted by the FBI

Related Articles

-Advertisement-

Must read

Edited by: TJVNews.com

It appears that President Joe Biden’s son Hunter can’t seem to stay out of the headlines. His ubiquitous “lap top” computer and all that it holds keeps emerging at regular intervals.

On Tuesday, it was reported that the FBI raided the Washington, DC and New York City  townhouses tied to Russian oligarch and Vladimir Putin associate Oleg Deripaska. the New York City townhouse is located on Gay Street in Greenwich Village.

The New York Post reported that an FBI spokesperson would not say why the raids, which were first reported by NBC News, were being carried out but said it was tied to a federal investigation out of New York.

Now, according to the Post report, Hunter Biden has said that he was in a position to provide solid intelligence on the shady Russian oligarch to authorities.

The Post reported that based on e-mails on the younger Biden’s laptop, Hunter could provide the giant aluminum firm, Alcoa with direct knowledge about the “elite networks” connected to Oleg Deripaska in a proposal from his company Rosemont Seneca

According to the NY Post report, Deripaska was investigated for money laundering and extortion and sanctioned by the US in 2018.  According to an Associated Press report, a spokesperson for Deripaska told reporters that the searches were “connected to U.S. sanctions” and that the homes didn’t belong to him but belonged to relatives. The sanctions imposed on Deripaska in 2018 prevent him from doing business or owning property in the U.S.

In imposing the sanctions against Deripaska in 2018, the Treasury Department said he “has been investigated for money laundering, and has been accused of threatening the lives of business rivals, illegally wiretapping a government official, and taking part in extortion and racketeering.”

He sued, unsuccessfully, to try to force the government to overturn those sanctions and his lawyers argued that the penalties cost him billions of dollars, according to the AP report,

In the lawsuit, Deripaska’s lawyers said that while the Washington home was owned by a limited liability company, which in turn was owned by a British Virgin Island trust established by Deripaska in 2006, he had never lived there.

AP also reported that Deripaska also had ties to Paul Manafort, former President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, who was convicted of eight financial crimes as part Mueller’s investigation. Manafort was later pardoned by Trump.

The Treasury Department, under the Trump administration, lifted financial sanctions on three companies connected to Deripaska, as was reported by the AP.  Officials said at the time they had done so because Derapaska’s direct and indirect shareholding stake in the three companies had been reduced to the point that he no longer has control over them. The sanctions against Deripaska himself remain.

The Post reported that in 2011, Hunter offered to “provide Alcoa with statistical analysis of political and corporate risks, elite networks associated with Oleg Deripaska (OD), Russian CEO of Basic Element company and United company RUSAL,” as was revealed in documents on the laptop he abandoned at a MacBook repair shop in Delaware in April 2019. RUSAL is a Russian aluminum company.

In an email that Hunter wrote to to Daniel Cruise, Alcoa’s then-Vice President of Government and Public Affairs, on June 3, 2011, he said, according to the Post report, “Please see the attached proposal per our last conversation . . . we tried to provide a little better sense of the product by attaching some of the raw data that is produced through the elite mapping procedure.”

Included in the proposal, was a “list of elites of similar rank in Russia, map of OD’s [Deripaska’s] networks based on frequency of interaction with selected elites and countries,” as was reported by the Post,

Hunter wanted to charge Alcoa fees of “$25,000 for phase one of the project and $55,000 for refined analysis.”

The Post also reported that in a June 8, 2011 email that was forwarded to Hunter, Cruise’s colleague at Alcoa, Pei Cheng, wrote to Cruise: “I don’t believe the data analysis is worth the full $55,000. I think the most valuable piece for us would be the list of Russian elites connected to OD [Deripaska] that would not otherwise be on Government Affairs team’s radar, including various Russian Committee Heads, Union leaders or Ministers.”

According to Cheng’s e-mail, in addition to Hunter Biden, also on a co-chairman of Rosemont Seneca was Christopher Heinz, the stepson of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, who later became Secretary of State in the Obama administration.

Hunter’s laptop also reveals that according to the diary on the computer, he had flown to to Russia in 2012 to meet Abramyan immediately after having lunch in Washington with his father, then vice-president Joe Biden, and then-Chinese vice-president Xi Jinping, as was reported by the Post.

On February 16, 2012, Hunter’s diary shows “breakfast board of directors ‘troika dialog,’ lunch w Ara Abramyan his home” in the upscale Odintsovsky district of West Moscow.

The Post reported that during the Obama administration some junior staff at the State Department expressed serious concerns about Hunter’s connections to Russian oligarchs and his role in the Burisma energy company.

Amos Hochstein, special envoy on energy policy, tried twice to address these concerns about Hunter’s role, including with Joe Biden in the West Wing in October 2015, as was reported by the Post.

“I wanted to make sure that he was aware that there was an increase in chatter on media outlets close to Russians and corrupt oligarch-owned media outlets [about] Hunter Biden being part of the board of Burisma,” Hochstein testified to the Senate Republican inquiry into “Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption” by the Finance and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committees, chaired by Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson.

 

balance of natureDonate

Latest article

- Advertisement -