Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has made public the unclassified FBI record containing allegations of a criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a Ukrainian business executive. This document, identified as an FD-1023 form, was obtained through legally protected disclosures by Justice Department whistleblowers.
According to the FD-1023 form, then-Vice President Joe Biden was alleged to have forced Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky to pay him and his son, Hunter Biden, a sum of $10 million. The document described Biden’s arrangement as “poluchili,” which is Russian crime slang for being “forced or coerced to pay.”
From the FD-1023:
According to the FBI’s confidential human source, executives for Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, brought Hunter Biden on the board to “protect us through his dad, from all kinds of problems.” At the time, Burisma was seeking to do business in the United States, but was facing a corruption investigation in Ukraine, led by then-Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. Regarding that investigation’s impact on its ambitions in North America, Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky reportedly said, “Don’t worry Hunter will take care of all of those issues through his dad.” Zlochevsky reportedly stated that he had to pay $5 million to Hunter Biden and $5 million to Joe Biden, an arrangement he described as ‘poluchili,’ which is Russian crime slang for being “forced or coerced to pay,” according to the document.
Also, per the document, Zlochevsky asserts that he possesses text messages and recordings indicating that he was compelled to pay the Bidens to ensure the dismissal of Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
Zlochevsky also kept two documents, potentially financial records, as evidence of the agreement.
More from the FD-1023:
Zlochevsky claimed to have many text messages and recordings that show that he was coerced into paying the Bidens to ensure Shokin was fired. Specifically, he claimed to have two recordings with Joe Biden and 15 recordings with Hunter Biden. Zlochevsky also retained two documents, presumably financial records, as evidence of the arrangement, but said he didn’t send any funds directly to the “Big Guy,” a term understood to be a reference to Joe Biden. References to the “Big Guy” surfaced in communications involving other Biden family business arrangements independent of the Burisma arrangement. Zlochevsky claimed it would take investigators 10 years to uncover the illicit payments to the Bidens, according to the document.
Read the unclassified FD-1023 forms below:
Reminder: Joe Biden publicly boasted about bribing Ukraine with $1 billion in aid to fire Viktor Shokin, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General who was investigating corruption related to Burisma.
“I looked at him and I 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,” Biden said in 2018.
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