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The Burisma head at the center of an alleged bribery scheme with Joe and Hunter Biden insisted 'no one' at his company had any contact with Joe when he was vice president, according to a transcript released by top Oversight Democrat Jamie Raskin.
The transcripts came from a 2019 interview with Mykola Zlochevsky, the head of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company where Hunter Biden was paid $50,000 a month to sit on the board.
In the interview, Zlochevsky told an associate of Rudy Giuliani: 'No one from Burisma ever had any contacts with VP Biden or people working for him during Hunter Biden's engagement.'
Zlochevksy is the founder of Burisma. He also served as Ukraine's energy minister. He has since fled the country and is wanted on corruption charges.
The Burisma head at the center of an alleged bribery scheme with Joe and Hunter Biden insisted 'no one' at his company had any contact with Joe when he was vice president, according to a transcript released by top Oversight Democrat Jamie Raskin
Republicans claim there is evidence that a Burisma executive, believed to be Zlochevsky, paid Hunter and Joe Biden $5 million each during the Obama-Biden administration in exchange for Joe putting pressure on the Ukrainian government to fire prosecutorVictor Shokin who was allegedly investigating Burisma.
President Biden has long insisted he pushed the Ukrainian government to fire Shokin due to corruption. In 2018 he boasted that he had threatened to hold up foreign aid if they did not do so.
'I looked at them and said: 'I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money.' Well, son of a bitch. He got fired,' Joe Biden said at the time.
The transcripts came from a 2019 interview with Mykola Zlochevsky, the head of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company where Hunter Biden was paid $50,000 a month to sit on the board.
Republicans have demanded the FBI make public an FD-1023 document where a paid informant details the scheme between Zlochevsky and the Bidens, where the money was paid through a series of 20 shell companies to conceal its source.
Raskin is hitting back with contradicting proof of his own - a three-page transcript of a July 7, 2019 conversation that was uncovered as part of the 2019 impeachment inquiry into
