{"id":583620,"date":"2023-07-20T23:07:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T20:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/republicans-release-fbi-form-alleging-unverified-biden-burisma-allegations\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T23:07:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T20:07:13","slug":"republicans-release-fbi-form-alleging-unverified-biden-burisma-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/republicans-release-fbi-form-alleging-unverified-biden-burisma-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"#Republicans release FBI form alleging unverified Biden-Burisma allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/grassleychuck_061323gn02_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Republicans Thursday\u00a0released a copy of an <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/fd_1023_obtained_by_senator_grassley_-_biden.pdf\">unverified tip to the FBI<\/a>\u00a0alleging a scheme to bribe President Biden \u2014 a tip that has not been corroborated but is nonetheless fueling GOP investigations into the Biden family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The information, memorialized in an FD-1023 form documenting interactions with a confidential informant, was released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and House Oversight Republicans who threatened to hold the FBI director in contempt of Congress amid efforts to review and obtain the document.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The tip revolves around an allegation long pushed by former President Donald Trump involving then-Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden and a Ukrainian prosecutor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While carrying out Obama administration policy that had been coordinated with European allies, then-Vice President Biden argued that Ukrainian prosecutor <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Viktor Shokin was corrupt and threatened to withhold $1 billion in funding to Ukraine unless Shokin was fired.<\/p>\n<p>Others in the international community likewise pushed for Shokin\u2019s dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden at that time was on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which was the subject of an investigation under the prosecutor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>There has never been hard evidence that now-President Biden called for Shokin\u2019s ouster in order to help his son. Some reports have said that the investigation was, in fact, dormant by the time Biden called for Shokin\u2019s ouster. But Trump\u2019s insistence that Ukraine investigate the matter or risk the loss of U.S. aid led to his first impeachment in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FD-1023 form released Thursday details secondhand allegations that Burisma\u2019s CEO and founder Mykola Zlochevsky thought having Hunter Biden on the board could help insulate the company from its problems with the prosecutor, that Zlochevsky sent millions of dollars to President Biden as well as Hunter Biden and that two recordings about the matter exist that involve President Biden.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Those key details\u00a0in the form\u00a0are not\u00a0verified or corroborated.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It all comes from a confidential FBI source \u2013 previously described by both Republicans and Democrats briefed on the matter as credible \u2013 who had spoken to Zlochevsky and other Burisma executives over a few occasions. The source could not give an opinion on the veracity of Zlochevsky\u2019s statements about Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have also\u00a0released information\u00a0first collected during the first impeachment effort that included a conversation purported to be with Zlochevsky that contradicts the information relayed in the FD-1023 form.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The White House has vigorously denied any wrongdoing stemming from the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is remarkable that congressional Republicans, in their eagerness to go after President Biden regardless of the truth, continue to push claims that have been debunked for years and that they themselves have cautioned to take \u2018with a grain of salt\u2019 because they could be \u2018made up,\u2019\u201d Ian Sams, White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese claims have reportedly been scrutinized by the Trump Justice Department, a Trump-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointed U.S. Attorney, and a full impeachment trial of the former President that centered on these very issues, and over and over again, they have been found to lack credibility,\u201d Sams continued.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that congressional Republicans are dead-set on playing shameless, dishonest politics and refuse to let truth get in the way. It is well past time for <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> organizations to hold them to basic levels of factual accountability for their repeated and increasingly desperate efforts to mislead both the public and the press.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FBI also admonished the lawmakers for sharing the letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have repeatedly explained to Congress, in correspondence and in briefings, howcritical it is to keep this source information confidential,\u201d the FBI said in a statement.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s release of the 1023 \u2013 at a minimum \u2013 unnecessarily risks the safety of a confidential source.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a June letter obtained by The Hill, the FBI warned Comer and the Oversight Committee about releasing the file publicly as they chose to do Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsistent with our agreement, Committee Members were provided an admonishment prior to reviewing the document that the information contained within the subpoenaed FD-1023 could not be disseminated outside of the House sensitive compartmented information facility. The Committee and its Members were specifically told that \u2018wider distribution could pose a risk of physical harm to FBI sources or others,\u2019 the FBI wrote in the letter to Comer.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe are concerned that Members disregarded the Committee\u2019s agreement that information from the document should not be further disclosed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said that the form backs up his committee\u2019s investigation of the Biden family\u2019s business dealings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the FBI\u2019s record, the Burisma executive claims that he didn\u2019t pay the \u2018big guy\u2019 directly but that he used several bank accounts to conceal the money. That sounds an awful lot like how the Bidens conduct business: using multiple bank accounts to hide the source and total amount of the money,\u201d Comer said in a\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/news\/news-releases\/grassley-obtains-and-releases-fbi-record-alleging-vp-biden-foreign-bribery-scheme#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20%E2%80%93%20Sen.%20Chuck%20Grassley%20\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The FBI\u2019s confidential human source \u2013 identified as CHS in the document \u2013 reported that during a meeting at Burisma\u2019s offices in late 2015 or early 2016, Burisma CFO Vadim Porjarskii said that Hunter Biden was hired to be on the board in order to \u201cprotect us, though his dad, from all kinds of problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Porjarskii provided no further or specific details about what that meant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About two months later, the FBI source attended another meeting in Vienna, Austria in 2016 with Burisma executives to talk about acquiring a U.S.-based oil and gas company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCHS told Zlochevsky that due to Shokin\u2019s investigation into Burisma, which was made public at the time, it would have a substantial negative impact on Burisma\u2019s prospective IPO in the United States. Zolochevsky replied something to the effect of, \u2018Don\u2019t worry Hunter will take care of all those issues through his dad,\u2019\u201d the form said. \u201cCHS did not ask any further questions about what that specifically meant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the FBI source questioned why Zlochevsky would pay $20 million to $30 million to buy a U.S. company rather than just form a new U.S.-based entity, Zlochevsky responded that it would be hard to raise capital given the prosecutor\u2019s investigation \u2013 and laughed when CHS suggested just paying $50,000 for a lawyer to deal with the matter in Ukraine in part because it included the number \u201c5.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt cost 5 (million) to pay one Biden, and 5 (million) to another Biden,\u201d the FBI source recalled Zolochevsky saying, noting it was unclear whether those payments were already made.<\/p>\n<p>When the FBI source suggested hiring some normal U.S. oil and gas advisors because the Bidens had no experience in that sector, Zlochevsky said that Hunter Biden needed to be on the board \u201cso everything will be okay,\u201d saying that both Hunter and Joe Biden said that he should retain Hunter Biden and that it was too late to change his decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCHS understood this to mean that Zlochevsky had already paid the Bidens, presumably to \u2018deal with Shokin,\u2019\u201d the form said.<\/p>\n<p>Later, in a 2016 or 2017 phone call, Zlochevsky complained that he was \u201cpushed to pay\u201d the Bidens, the FBI source said.\u00a0Zlochevsky said he had recordings that somehow served as evidence that Zlochevsky was coerced into paying the Bidens to ensure that the prosecutor Shokin was fired \u2013 with a total of 17 recordings, two of which involved President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZlochevsky responded that he did not send any funds directly to the \u2018Big Guy\u2019 (which CHS understood was a reference to Joe Biden.\u201d Zlochevsky additionally said it would take 10 years to find all the bank records of illicit payments to President Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FBI source explained it is common for businessmen in Russia and Ukraine to brag and show off, and also to make \u201cbribe\u201d payments to various government officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and Republicans have been at odds over the significance of the document.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting indicates the FBI was never able to corroborate the information relayed by the informant, something Oversight Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said stopped it from being escalated up the investigative chain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re talking about here is a confidential human source reporting a conversation with someone else. So we\u2019re talking about is secondhand hearsay,\u201d Raskin said after reviewing the document in June, adding that the source \u201chad no way of knowing about the underlying veracity of the things that he was being told.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd they did whatever investigative due diligence was called for in that assessment period, and they found no reason to escalate it from an assessment to a so-called preliminary investigation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Information\u00a0first collected during the first impeachment effort included a conversation purported to be with Zlochevsky that contradicts the FD-1023 claims of communications with President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one from Burisma ever had any contacts with VP Biden or people working for him during Hunter Biden\u2019s engagement,\u201d Zlochevsky says in\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/oversightdemocrats.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.oversight.house.gov\/files\/VPanswersJuly7th2019.pdf\">the exchange<\/a>, which appears to be with Vitaly Pruss, whom the letter describes as \u201canother long-time associate of Mr. [Rudy] Giuliani who was a close friend of Mr. Zlochevsky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the conversation was turned over to Giuliani by Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian who was later convicted of making illegal campaign contributions to former President Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zlochevsky also answered \u201cno\u201d when asked if then-Vice President Biden or his staff \u201cassisted you or your company in any way with business deals or meetings with world leaders or any other assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parnas also\u00a0wrote in a letter to Comer earlier this week, urging him to abandon efforts to uncover wrongdoing by the Biden family in Ukraine, calling the matter \u201cnothing more than a wild goose chase\u201d that has been \u201cdebunked again and again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. 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