Tax evasion? – FBI and Tax Office Investigate Biden-Sohn – Foreign Policy

Serious accusations in the surroundings of Biden!

The son of future US President Joe Biden (78), Hunter Biden (50), has been the target of tax investigators from the US federal government. The young Biden announced on Wednesday (local time) through his father’s team that his lawyers had been informed the previous day by the state prosecutor’s office in the state of Delaware for the first time about investigations by federal authorities against him for “matters prosecutors “.

He took the matter seriously, but was confident that an objective investigation would show that he was not guilty of anything.

Biden’s son was regularly targeted by now-elected President Donald Trump during the election campaign. The Republican raised corruption allegations against Hunter and Democrat Joe Biden, who was vice president from 2009 to 2017. Now, these could be at least partially confirmed.

The background for this is Hunter Biden’s questionable foreign business in Ukraine and China. Hunter Biden served in a lucrative position on the supervisory board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma between 2014 and 2019. As vice president, Joe Biden was responsible for Ukraine.

Joe Biden (78) had dismissed the attacks on him and his family in the election campaign as a smear campaign. His team announced Wednesday that the future president was proud of his son. Hunter Biden faced serious challenges, “including vicious personal attacks in recent months.” He came out of her stronger.

Hunter Biden has lived unstable in the past and was dishonorably discharged from the Naval Reserve for cocaine abuse. The conservative American media also told him that he was having an affair with the widow of his brother Beau Biden, who had died of a brain tumor.

The CNN broadcaster reported that the investigations that have now been released had already begun in 2018. Federal authorities had suspended them in the months leading up to the elections to comply with regulations that the vote must not be influenced.

Now the investigation would resume, in which the FBI of the Federal Police and the IRS tax authority are involved. Among other things, it is investigating whether Hunter Biden and his partners have violated tax and money laundering laws in their overseas businesses, especially in China. The investigation is not about future President Joe Biden.

Before the election, the “New York Post” published emails that, in the opinion of the Trump camp, should show that Hunter Biden wanted to cash in on his father’s office as vice president under Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama.

Trump’s group also evaluated the emails as evidence that Joe Biden, contrary to his testimony, knew about his son’s foreign affairs. Joe Biden strongly denied the allegations. He never commented on the details of his son’s business.

How the emails were made public was questionable. They are said to have been found on a laptop in a repair shop. The “New York Post” claims to have received a hard drive copy from Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s longtime personal attorney and confidante. The copy was made by the owner of the repair shop before the FBI seized the laptop in December 2019, the newspaper reported at the time.