Hunter Biden appeared in Los Angeles federal court last month, denying tax evasion charges (Documents)
Los Angeles, USA:
The special prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden using his father’s power and popularity to accept millions of dollars in bribes from a Ukrainian company has accused a former FBI informant of lying, according to a federal indictment.
Alexander Smirnov, 43, is accused of making up the lie that the US president’s son requested the money to protect Burisma, of which he served on its board at the time, from investigation.
Smirnoff’s evidence has been touted by Republicans as evidence of the Biden family’s collective criminal activity, which some in the party have used as a pretext for the so-far unsuccessful impeachment of President Joe Biden.
A grand jury indictment filed Wednesday in California federal court alleges that for at least a decade, Smirnov acted as a “confidential source (CHS)” for the FBI, providing his superiors with information used in criminal investigations.
“Despite repeated admonitions that he must provide truthful information to the FBI and not fabricate evidence, defendant provided false and derogatory information about Joe and Hunter Biden to the FBI,” the filing states.
The indictment alleges that in June 2020, Smirnoff first told his superiors about a meeting he claimed had taken place four or five years ago in which Burisma executives said they hired Hunter Biden to ” Protecting us from all forms of harm through His Father”. The problem. “
He told the FBI that executives said “they paid” Joe Biden and Hunter Biden $5 million each “specifically so that Hunter Biden would deal with all of these issues through his father.”
The document said this was in reference to the ongoing criminal investigation of Burisma by the then Ukrainian Prosecutor General.
“The incident first reported by the defendants to handlers in June 2020 was a fabrication,” the lawsuit states.
“Defendants turned their routine and unusual business contacts with Burisma in 2017 into bribery charges against Joe Biden after expressing bias against Biden and his candidacy.”
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The New York Times reported that Smiroff, a permanent resident of the United States, was arrested at Las Vegas International Airport on Wednesday while returning from overseas, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a press release on Thursday.
He faces one count of making false statements during an FBI investigation and one count of creating false and fictitious records.
If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to 25 years in prison.
The idea that Hunter Biden exploited his father’s fame for personal gain is central to the Republican narrative — that Joe Biden, fueled by Donald Trump, is corrupt.
The president’s troubled son is taboo among conservatives, with outlets such as Fox News repeatedly airing salacious details of his drug-related past.
They have used the charges to bolster an impeachment inquiry into the president, which has little chance of ending in a conviction.
But it was used as a platform to damage Biden ahead of the November presidential election and distract from multiple criminal and civil charges against Donald Trump, including an alleged conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.
Hunter Biden appeared in Los Angeles federal court last month and denied tax evasion charges.
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