American justice announced yesterday Thursday the arrest and prosecution of a former informant of the federal police (F.B.I) because he allegedly lied and fabricated accusations of his corruption son of President Joe Biden, Hunter Bidenwhich the right seeks to exploit to impeach and impeach the Democratic occupant of the White House.
Alexander Smirnov, the former whistleblower, 43, was arrested Thursday in Las Vegas, according to a statement from the special prosecutor who is investigating the case of Hunter Biden.
He allegedly lied when he accused Joe and Hunter Biden of each taking five million dollars in bribes to help a Ukrainian gas company, Burisma, escape prosecution.
The former whistleblower allegedly provided “false information” to the FBI about Joe and Hunter Biden, according to the indictment released by special counsel David Weiss, according to the Justice Department.
If convicted, he faces up to 25 years in prison.
The new development is a blow to the investigation in the face of impeachment by House Republicans in a Senate trial of President Joe Bidenjust months before the Democrat's potential rematch with Donald Trump in the Nov. 5 election.
The right accuses Joe Biden, without so far presenting convincing evidence, of using his influence when he was Barack Obama's vice president (2009-2017) to facilitate his son Hunter in transactions of dubious legality in Ukraine and China.
What Mr. Smirnoff had said was leaked to the press by Republicans and helped fuel the atmosphere of suspicion. But the story he told was completely fabricated, according to the indictment.
Chronological problem
According to the investigation, the information provided by Mr. Smirnov is problematic in terms of dates. In 2020, the whistleblower told an FBI agent that he met with Burisma officials “in 2015 and/or 2016,” that is, during the days of Barack Obama as president and Joe Biden as vice president.
Members of the Ukrainian company, he claimed, had confided in him at the time that they named Hunter Biden to its board of directors to “protect themselves, through his father, from all kinds of problems.” For this they “paid 5 million dollars” each.
This scenario seemed consistent with the removal (in 2016) of the Ukrainian prosecutor general, who was investigating Burisma. A decision behind which the Republicans saw the hand of Mr. Biden.
But the investigation showed that Mr. Smirnov did not develop relations with Burisma until 2017, after Donald Trump had taken office. At the time, Joe Biden “had no way to influence American politics,” according to the indictment.
The whistleblower turned “routine contacts” with Burisma officials “in 2017 (…) into allegations of corruption” against President Biden, the document continued. And he waited until 2020 to do it, since the current president was now “a candidate of one of the two major parties” for the presidency.
After the prosecution of the FBI whistleblower became known, Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin called for an end to the investigation into the president. James Comer, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, rejected that, assuring CNN that the investigation is not based on Alexander Smirnov's allegations.
Biden Jr., 53, now devoted to painting, facing two federal prosecutions, has long been in the Republican crosshairs, even more so as the presidential election looms. They are trying to fuel suspicions about his dealings in Ukraine and China during the Barack Obama era. But the judicial investigation in progress has not documented anything about them. He was on Burisma's board of directors from 2014 to 2019.
Formerly addicted to substances and alcohol – he assures that he has now become addicted – he is dealing with two criminal charges, for tax evasion and illegal gun possessionaccording to international agencies and the Athens News Agency.
Burisma was at the center of former President Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate in 2019 over his alleged efforts to pressure Kiev to investigate the Bidens to help him get re-elected. The Senate, then controlled by Republicans, acquitted him.
Source: News Beast
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