Burisma executive 'paid Joe and Hunter Biden $5million each to end corruption ... trends now
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.
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
