(PM.) On Thursday, Senator Chuck Grassley released an FBI informant file where a confidential human source (CHS) allegedly explains a $10 million bribe that was paid to President Joe Biden and his son Hunter by Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Ukraine natural gas company Burisma Holdings.
According to the June 2020 file, the CHS alleges that Zlochevsky told him that “it cost 5 (million) to pay one Biden, and 5 (million) to another Biden.” He also alleges that Zlochevsky told him that Hunter “through his dad” would take care of issues surrounding Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin’s investigation into the organization.
Sen. @ChuckGrassley just released FBI informant file on $10M bribery allegation against Joe and Hunter Biden
Among details: ‘CHS inquired whether Hunter Biden or Joe Biden told Zlochevsky he should retain Hunter Biden; Zlochevsky replied, ‘They both did” https://t.co/eDKQ0TH00W pic.twitter.com/mnhy6yuZWA
— Steven Nelson (@stevennelson10) July 20, 2023
At the time Burisma was looking to purchase a US-based entity to operate and an investigation would make it difficult to find investors. Around the same time, Joe Biden made a public statement alleging that Shokin was corrupt and should be fired.
Zlochevsky told the CHS that he had to keep Hunter Biden on the board “so everything will be ok,” even though he thought Hunter Biden “was stupid and his (Zlochecksy’s) dog was smarter.” The CHS also said that when asked if Hunter or Joe Biden told him Zlochevsky that he should keep Hunter on, he replied “They both did.”
The CHS’s opinion to Zlochevsky was that he should fire Hunter Biden and deal with the investigation so that the issue didn’t become an international affair. Zlochevsky assured him that “it was too late to change his decision” and to not worry, “this thing will all go away anyway.”
In a later conversation, Zlochevsky that he has “many text messages” and recordings that would show that he was “somehow coerced into paying the Bidens to ensure Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin was fired.” CHS specified that he claimed to have 17 recordings with the Bidens, where Joe was in two and the other 15 were just Hunter.
