{"id":1947001,"date":"2023-06-14T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bombshell-bidens-alleged-burisma-briber-a-russian-asset-report\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T12:50:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T16:50:51","slug":"bombshell-bidens-alleged-burisma-briber-a-russian-asset-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bombshell-bidens-alleged-burisma-briber-a-russian-asset-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Biden&#8217;s Burisma briber may be a Russian asset."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbombshell-bidens-alleged-burisma-briber-a-russian-asset-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1947001&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Bombshell: Biden&#8217;s Alleged Burisma Briber a Russian Asset: Report<\/h2>\n<p>A former business associate of Hunter Biden has been identified as an operative for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huge-chinese-spy-rep-swalwell-was-sleeping-with-is-pictured-with-chinese-agent-who-spied-on-sen-feinstein-for-20-years\/\" title=\"HUGE: Chinese Spy Rep. Swalwell Was Sleeping With Is Pictured with Chinese Agent Who Spied on Sen. Feinstein for 20 Years\">intelligence service<\/a> of Russia.<\/p>\n<p>An anonymous U.S intelligence official shared an assessment pinning Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky as a pawn of the Russian SVR intelligence service, RedState Managing Editor Jennifer Van Lahr wrote in a column published Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Zlochevsky founded the Ukrainian energy company Burisma in 2002, going on to hire Hunter Biden to serve on the company\u2019s board in 2014. In a speech on the Senate floor on Monday, Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley charged that then-Vice President Joe Biden might have played a role in his son joining Burisma\u2019s board.<\/p>\n<p>The younger Biden was paid handsomely by Burisma, to the tune of up to $83,333 a month, according to a New York Post report from 2021 \u2014 generous compensation that critics of the Biden family have likened to a bribe.<\/p>\n<p>Zlochevsky served as a government official in the pro-Russian administration of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych \u2014 who was himself impeached by the Ukraine legislature after fleeing the country for Russia in 2014, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Zlochevsky faced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-video-links-biden-to-ukrainian-corruption-burisma-indictment-reveals-ex-president-yanukovich-illegally-obtained-7-4-billion-laundered-thru-fund-close-to-us-democratic-party\/\" title=\"New Video Links Biden to Ukrainian Corruption \u2013 Burisma Indictment Reveals Ex-President Yanukovich Illegally Obtained .4 Billion Laundered Thru Fund \u201cClose to US Democratic Party\u201d\">corruption investigation<\/a> from Ukrainian prosecutors after Yanukovych\u2019s removal from office \u2014 and allegedly paid $5 million each to Joe and Hunter Biden in a bid to thwart criminal charges against him, according to RedState.<\/p>\n<p>Then-former Vice President Joe Biden bragged about securing the termination of Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>During a Council on Foreign Relations event, Biden openly admitted threatening to withhold $1 billion in American aid from Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko if he refused to fire Shokin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">GRASSLEY: \u201cThe foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recording of his conversation with them. 17 such recordings\u202615 audio recordings of phone calls between him and Hunter Biden\u2026two audio recordings of phone calls between him and\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0QdUMEKhOR\">pic.twitter.com\/0QdUMEKhOR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 12, 2023<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Three Republican members of Congress have identified this foreign national as Zlochevsky, according to the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>In his 2021 memoir \u201cBeautiful Things,\u201d Hunter Biden described his service on Burisma\u2019s board as a means to thwart the ambitions of Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Zlochevsky appointed Hunter Biden to Burisma\u2019s board months after a popular uprising in Ukraine swept Yanukovych from power in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>A Ukrainian criminal investigation into Zlochevsky for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bombshell-bidens-alleged-burisma-briber-a-russian-asset-report\/\" title=\"Report: Biden's Burisma briber may be a Russian asset.\">allegedly embezzling state funds<\/a> has been stalled by the oligarch\u2019s unclear whereabouts, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<h3>The Alleged Russian Connection<\/h3>\n<p>The intelligence source expressed confidence in the assessment of Zlochevsky as a Russian agent, according to Van Lahr. Former President Barack Obama was aware of it during his time in office, and Biden and current Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs Victoria Nuland are aware of it as well, the source told Van Lahr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US intelligence community has a high degree of confidence in their assessment of Zlochevsky as [Russian Foreign Intelligence Service],\u201d the source is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>In his Senate speech Monday, Grassley indicated an FBI document implicated an unnamed \u201cforeign national\u201d in bribing Joe and Hunter Biden \u2014 and creating audio recordings of phone calls between himself and both of them that implicate the Bidens in the bribery.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukraine Anti-Corruption Court is seeking to try him in absentia, Newsweek reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stay tuned for updates on this developing story.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Biden&#8217;s ex-business partner is allegedly a Russian intelligence operative, according to a US intelligence official. Mykola Zlochevsky, a Ukrainian oligarch, has been identified as a pawn of the Russian SVR intelligence service. This was revealed in a column by Jennifer Van Lahr, the Managing Editor of RedState. Zlochevsky is the founder of the company where Hunter Biden served on the board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":666,"featured_media":1947002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[13343,3706,28615,24337,3819,3965],"class_list":["post-1947001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-asset","tag-bidens","tag-briber","tag-burisma","tag-report","tag-russian"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1947002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}