Exclusive: President Joe Biden allegedly received $5 million from executives at Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company whose son Hunter Biden was on the board of directors, according to a confidential source in an interview in June 2020. told the FBI, a source told Fox News Digital.
Officials briefed Fox News Digital on the contents of the FD-1023 form produced by the FBI, alleging a criminal bribery scheme involving influence over U.S. policymaking between Vice President Joe Biden and foreigners. .
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Form FD-1023, dated June 30, 2020, is an FBI interview with a “highly credible” classified source detailing multiple meetings and conversations with Burisma executives over several years beginning in 2015. is. Fox News Digital has not seen the form, but it has been described by multiple sources with knowledge of its contents.
The FD-1023 form is used by FBI agents to record unconfirmed reports from classified sources. This form is used to document information passed on to FBI agents, but recording that information does not allow the information to be verified or compared to other information known to the FBI. There is nothing to do.
President Biden and his son Hunter Biden step off Air Force One at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, New York, Saturday, February 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semanski)
Burisma executives sought advice from classified sources who are business experts about acquiring U.S. oil interests and engaging with U.S. oil companies, according to people familiar with the documents. Burisma executives had spoken to classified sources in 2015 and 2016 to “get advice on how best to proceed.”
According to Form FD-1023, the top secret source said Burisma executives discussed Hunter’s role on the board. With Hunter Biden on the board, the source questioned why Burisma executives need his advice in gaining access to U.S. oil. Burisma executives responded by calling Hunter Biden an “idiot.”
Burisma officials told top-secret sources that Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin was investigating Burisma, and Burisma “had to pay the Bidens.” He explained how difficult it is to enter the market.
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Confidential sources further elaborated on the conversation, suggesting Burisma executives would “pay $50,000 each to Mr. and Mrs. Biden,” to which Burisma executives replied, “Not $50,000” and “$5 million.” rice field.
“One Biden for $5 million and another Biden for $5 million,” Burisma executives told a confidential source, according to a person familiar with the document.
According to the document, the sources said the $5 million payment was a kind of “servant” that Burisma intended to pay the Bidens to address a number of issues, including the Shokin-led investigation. said that there seems to be Another source calls the arrangement a “pay-to-play” model.
Officials told Fox News Digital that top-secret sources believed a $5 million payment to Joe Biden and a $5 million payment to Hunter Biden were made based on conversations with Burisma executives. He said he was.
According to the classified sources, Burisma executives told the Bidens that they had “paid” them “through so many different bank accounts” that investigators would not “find out for at least 10 years.”
The document also mentions “The Big Guy,” which is said to refer to Joe Biden.
A Burisma executive told a confidential source that it “does not pay Big Guy directly.”
President Joe Biden leaves after a service at St. Edmund Catholic Church in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, April 15, 2023. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital has learned that this confidential person source has been used by the FBI as a regular and reliable source since 2010 and was paid about $200,000 by the FBI.
Burisma executives appear to be at a “very high level” at the company, people familiar with the matter said. A person familiar with the matter suggested that the classified source may have referred to Burisma chief Mykola Zlochevsky, but said the names of Burisma executives were redacted in the document.
As vice president, Mr. Biden has admitted that he successfully pressured Ukraine to fire prosecutor Viktor Shokin. At the time, Shokin was investigating Burisma Holdings, and Hunter at the time held a high-paying position on the board of directors that paid him thousands of dollars a month. The vice president at the time threatened that if Mr. Shokin was not removed, he would withhold $1 billion in vital U.S. aid.
“I said, ‘I’m not going to get a billion. I’m leaving.’ I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. No money, no money,’ Biden recalled telling then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.Biden recalled a conversation at a Council on Foreign Relations event. in 2018.
Biden said during the event, “Fuck you, he got fired.” “And they had a solid staff at the time.”
Biden supporters argued that the then-Vice President pushed for Shokin’s dismissal out of concern that the Ukrainian prosecutor had eased corruption, and that his dismissal was the policy position of the United States and the international community at the time. claim.
In 2019, then-President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about the Biden family’s actions and business deals in Ukraine, specifically Hunter Biden’s business with Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings, Pressed to launch an investigation into the success of Joe Biden’s Shokin ouster operation.
Trump’s request was seen by Democrats as a reward for a freeze on multi-million dollar US military aid to Ukraine. Democrats also alleged that President Trump is interfering in the 2020 presidential election, including by asking foreign leaders to investigate Democratic political opponents.
President Biden (left) and son Hunter Biden (right). (Nicholas Kam/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump was subsequently impeached by the House of Representatives on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, all stemming from a phone call and questions about the Bidens’ deal. The Senate acquitted him in February 2020.
According to a source familiar with the FD-1023 form, the classified source told Burisma executives that they should “stay away” from the Bidens and that executives should “not want to get involved” with the Bidens.
A person familiar with the document told Fox News Digital that the secret source recounted further conversations with Burisma officials after the 2016 presidential election. The classified source asked Burisma executives if they were “shaken” by Donald Trump’s victory.
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According to the person, the Burisma executive told a confidential source that he was an “oracle” and referred to advice to “stay away” from the Bidens for fear of possible investigation into their dealings. It is said that
Senator Chuck Grassley (Republican-IO). (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The House Oversight Committee had issued a subpoena to the FBI regarding the FD-1023 document. Amid back-and-forth exchanges between the Commission and the Bureau, and threats of detaining FBI Director Christopher Wray for contempt of Congress, the FBI required all commissioners to view the documents in the safety of the Capitol. allowed.
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, Republican, Kentucky. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The disclosure of the documents comes after the whistleblower approached Republican Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-K.). rice field. The whistleblower said the FBI had the documents (form FD-1023). Dated June 30, 2020.
The White House claims that President Biden was never involved in his son’s business dealings and never discussed it with President Biden.
Hunter Biden is currently under federal investigation for “tax matters.” The investigation began in 2018 and was sparked by suspicious foreign transactions.
The White House declined to comment, pointing to Joe Biden’s statement Thursday, saying the allegations were “a series of terrible things.”
