Burisma executive 'paid Joe and Hunter Biden $5million each to end corruption investigations'
The payments allegedly came from the owner of the Ukrainian oil company Burisma, which was being investigated for corruption and hired Hunter
An FBI document seen by Republicans allegedly outlines how Joe and Hunter Biden were paid $5M each to have a Ukrainian prosecutor removed
House Republicans alleged on Thursday that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter each received a $5 million payment from the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma to shake off a corruption probe.
Reps. Anna Paulina Luna and Marjorie Taylor Greene were among those given access to an FBI document from June 2020 that detailed testimony given to agents from an informant who had spoken with Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky.
That informant claimed that Zlochevsky said he had doled out $5 million to each Biden to call off an ongoing investigation by the Ukrainian prosecutor general at the time, Viktor Shokin.
A source close to the Republican investigation confirmed to DailyMail.com confirmed the contents of the FBI document that members have been viewing behind closed doors in a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility).
Ukrainian prosecutors first launched an investigation into Bursima - the company on which Hunter had a board position for five years - over allegations of money laundering, tax evasion, and corruption in 2012.
Greene has now alleged that the $5 million payments were a 'bribe' paid by Zlochevsky to have Shokin fired - thereby killing the investigation.
House Republicans alleged on Thursday that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter each received a $5 million payment from the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma as a bribe to kill a corruption probe
Zlochevsky is a multimillionaire Ukrainian oil and gas oligarch who founded Burisma in 2002. According to those familiar with the document, he told an FBI informant that he paid both Joe and Hunter Biden $5 million each so as to ensure Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin was fired
Shokin was eventually fired in April 2016, a month after Biden, then-vice president, threatened to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraine if he was not replaced as prosecutor general.
Biden has since claimed that he was pushing for Shokin to be fired because he was failing to properly curtail corruption in Ukraine.
'There's no doubt in my mind that Joe Biden is guilty of bribery,' Luna told Fox News correspondent Chad Pergram.
'There was two separate transactions, one that went to Joe Biden for $5million, one that went to Hunter Biden for $5 million.'
Zlochevsky is a multimillionaire Ukrainian oil and gas oligarch who founded Burisma in 2002. He also served in various positions in the Ukrainian government from 2010 until February 2014.
Burisma brought Hunter onto its board in 2014 as it was looking to expand overseas, even though he had no previous experience of the industry.
Hunter supposedly served as a helpful non-executive director who offered advice on legal issues, corporate finance and strategy.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who reviewed the FBI document, has alleged that the $5 million payments were a 'bribe' paid by Zlochevsky to the Bidens to have Shokin fired
President Joe Biden and his son Hunter leave Holy Spirit Catholic Church in South Carolina after attending a mass in August 2022
The June 2020 document that contains the bombshell claims is internally referred to by the FBI as an FD-1023 form and is used by agents to record unverified reporting from confidential human sources.
An anonymous source familiar with the contents of the document told Fox News Digital that the source claimed to have been informed of the alleged bribery by Zlochevsky, who at the time was supposedly consulting the source on how Burisma could acquire a US-based oil company.
Zlochevsky explained to the FBI source that his company had paid the Bidens because Shokin was investigating Burisma, making it hard for the company to enter the US market.
According to the person familiar with the FBI document, the informant said Hunter and Joe Biden were paid 'through so many different bank accounts' that investigators would not be able to 'unravel this for at least 10 years'.
Fox News Digital reported that the source who told the FBI of the payments had been used as a source since 2010 and had been paid around $200,000 in exchange.
After a joint press conference with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday, Biden dismissed the accusations, saying: 'Where's the money?'
President Biden downplayed the accusation on Thursday, saying: 'Where's the money?'
It came at the end of a joint White House press conference with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and after journalists fired questions at the pair.
As the hubbub died away, Biden was asked about the Republican claims and added after his first remark: 'I'm joking. It's a load of malarkey.'
Biden's flippant response infuriated Rep. Nancy Mace, who sits on the Oversight Committee.
'We don't find selling out your country funny,' she tweeted. 'Prove us wrong by releasing your and your family's unredacted bank records. The F.B.I. can't protect you forever.'
White House officials have repeatedly expressed frustration at being asked about what they say are unfounded allegations, and the FBI has cautioned that the information is unverified.
Biden was also asked what he was doing to protect the independence of the Justice Department, after years of attacks by Donald Trump when he was in and out of office.
You'd notice, I have never once – not one single time – suggested [to] the Justice Department what they should do or not do relative to bringing a charge or not bringing a charge,' he said. 'I'm honest.'
Source: Daily Mail
