In the United States, an investigation was launched against the son of Biden / GORDON

The son of US presidential candidate Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, is under investigation for tax purposes. Hunter himself said this on Dec. 9 in a statement on the Biden-Harris transition administration website.

“Yesterday (December 8. – “GORDON”) I first learned that the Delaware Federal Attorney’s Office informed my attorney, also yesterday, that they were investigating my tax cases. I take this issue very seriously, but I am confident that a professional and objective analysis of these issues will show that I conducted my business legally and properly, even with the help of professional tax consultants, “he said.

There was also a reaction to this situation and to Joe Biden himself. He noted that he is “deeply proud of his son, who has been through difficulties, including violent personal attacks in recent months, just to strengthen himself.”

CNN sources familiar with the course of the investigation said that it is being carried out only in relation to Hunter, his father does not appear in it. The case, which was opened in 2018, concerns a possible violation by Hunter and his associates of tax and money laundering laws while doing business in foreign countries, primarily China. Some of these transactions involved people who, according to the FBI, raised counterintelligence concerns, a common problem when it comes to Chinese companies, the source said.

Now, according to journalists, federal prosecutors in Delaware, working with the Criminal Investigation Agency (IRS) and the FBI, are busy issuing subpoenas and collecting evidence.

The CNN source also noted that the investigation has been conducted in secret in recent months due to directives from the US Department of Justice, which prohibit overt actions that may affect the elections.

Hunter Biden is known in Ukraine for a scandal related to his work on the board of directors of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Group. After the change of power in Ukraine in 2014, the GPU investigated Burisma’s activities, but the case was later closed. In 2016, Biden Sr. demanded the removal of Ukraine’s attorney general, Viktor Shokin, threatening that the United States would not provide Ukraine with $ 1 billion in loan guarantees.

In March 2019, Ukraine’s then-attorney general Yuriy Lutsenko hinted that Shokin’s resignation was related to criminal proceedings, which contained material that members of Burisma’s board of directors, including Biden’s son Hunter, received 17 million dollars, whose origin was questionable. In May, Lutsenko emphasized that his department had no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden or his son Hunter.

The situation with Biden’s son became the reason for the foreign policy conflict and the initiative to launch Trump’s impeachment proceedings in Congress. As a result, the lower house of Congress, the House of Representatives, impeached him, and the upper house, the Senate, rejected both charges..

As is clear from the transcript of a telephone conversation between Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, on July 25, during the conversation, the Ukrainian leader promised his American counterpart that Ukraine’s new attorney general would consider the situation with him. case against Burisma.

At a press conference with Zelensky in New York on September 25, Trump said Hunter Biden received $ 50,000 a month from Burisma, according to the White House website. On October 6, Trump announced that Hunter Biden could receive $ 100,000 a month from Burisma.

Following the release of the transcript of the conversation between Trump and Zelensky, Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau said detectives are investigating events from 2010-2012, when Biden’s son was not yet on the company’s board of directors. The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office reported that Biden and his son do not appear in the investigations of the anti-corruption authorities of Ukraine.