{"id":2057587,"date":"2023-10-06T07:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T11:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-documents-show-investigators-searched-for-hunter-bidens-chinese-diamond\/"},"modified":"2023-10-06T07:28:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T11:28:20","slug":"new-documents-show-investigators-searched-for-hunter-bidens-chinese-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-documents-show-investigators-searched-for-hunter-bidens-chinese-diamond\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigators sought Hunter Biden&#8217;s Chinese diamond, according to new documents."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fnew-documents-show-investigators-searched-for-hunter-bidens-chinese-diamond%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=2057587&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>FBI and IRS Investigate Diamond Gift to Hunter Biden<\/h2>\n<p>FBI and \u2062IRS agents have spent years delving\u200b into the mysterious disappearance of a diamond that\u200c Hunter Biden received from \u200ba\u2062 wealthy Chinese business associate in \u200b2017. The investigation \u200binto Hunter Biden&#8217;s business dealings has revealed conflicting accounts regarding the value and whereabouts of the\u200d jewel.<\/p>\n<h3>Expenses for Prostitutes<\/h3>\n<p>As part\u2062 of the investigation, evidence\u200d has emerged suggesting that Hunter Biden claimed expenses for\u200c prostitutes as \u200bbusiness-related costs.<\/p>\n<p>The diamond exchange \u2062is just one of several unusual transactions that have caught the attention of law enforcement officers during the investigation\u2063 into Hunter \u200cBiden&#8217;s taxes and businesses. Interestingly, Biden did not disclose the diamond as a form of payment when he filed his taxes \u2062for\u2064 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Recently released transcripts, text messages, and other \u200bdocuments shed new light on the\u200b scrutiny investigators placed on the\u2063 Biden family&#8217;s\u2062 connections to the Chinese business associate, who has since vanished in China.<\/p>\n<p>The former chairman of Chinese energy company CEFC, Ye Jianming, gifted the diamond to Hunter Biden in Miami in\u200d 2017. Emails and other \u2064documents\u2063 indicate that Biden had been involved with\u2063 CEFC for approximately two years\u2062 prior \u200dto \u2064receiving the diamond.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, along with several other business partners, including \u2064Rob Walker, James Gilliar, James Biden, and Tony Bobulinski, began assisting CEFC\u2062 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-documents-show-investigators-searched-for-hunter-bidens-chinese-diamond\/\" title=\"Investigators sought Hunter Biden's Chinese diamond, according to new documents.\">identifying investment opportunities worldwide<\/a>, with a particular focus on\u2063 deals in \u2063the United States.<\/p>\n<p>During an unannounced interview \u2063at\u200c Walker&#8217;s home in Arkansas in December 2020, FBI and IRS agents \u2064questioned him about the diamond. Walker stated that Hunter Biden may have given \u200dit to someone else and\u2063 mentioned that Hunter Biden had \u2062claimed to have given the diamond to one of his associates.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2019 interview with the New Yorker, Hunter Biden stated that Ye surprised him by sending the diamond to his hotel room after a meeting in Miami. According to Hunter Biden, the meeting had initially focused on\u2063 facilitating a donation from CEFC to the World Food Program USA, where he served as chairman of \u2063the board.<\/p>\n<p>However, emails found\u200d on Hunter Biden&#8217;s abandoned laptop suggest that discussions about the donation had taken place years earlier, in 2015. Furthermore, Hunter Biden had been working with CEFC to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-aims-to-expand-wmd-program-german-intel-agency-concludes\/\" title=\"Iran Aims to Expand WMD Program, German Intel Agency Concludes\">establish business contacts<\/a> during that time, and James Biden\u200c had also joined the venture.<\/p>\n<p>Bobulinski, a former business partner involved\u200d in the Chinese dealings, contradicted Hunter Biden&#8217;s \u200daccount of the diamond\u2062 when speaking with the FBI. Bobulinski stated \u200cthat he\u200b witnessed Ye giving a large diamond as a gift to Hunter Biden during the 2017 meeting \u200cin\u200d Miami, where the Biden family&#8217;s\u2064 work\u2063 for CEFC was a major topic of discussion. This contradicts Hunter Biden&#8217;s claim that Ye sent the diamond \u200bto his hotel \u200droom as an unrelated \u200bgesture.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, ideas for a joint venture between CEFC and Hunter Biden&#8217;s group emerged. This joint venture appeared to\u2063 be lucrative\u200d for Hunter and \u200dJames Biden, who eventually excluded Bobulinski from the\u200c deal due to mistrust.<\/p>\n<p>James Biden, the president&#8217;s brother, was also questioned \u2062about the diamond during his interview with investigators. He downplayed the exchange,\u200d stating that\u200b the jewel had no value. \u200cJames Biden provided a third explanation for\u200b how Hunter Biden \u2063received the diamond, \u2062claiming that it was given to him by an associate of the Chairman at his office.<\/p>\n<p>However, photographs on Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop seem to contradict\u200d James \u2063Biden&#8217;s testimony. The pictures \u200cshow the stone and its paperwork, suggesting \u2064that the diamond was 3.16\u200c carats and of relatively high quality.<\/p>\n<p>In divorce proceedings, Hunter Biden&#8217;s ex-wife, Kathleen, stated that she learned about the diamond \u2062in February 2017 and believed \u2062it to be worth around $80,000.\u200d She requested that Hunter Biden place it in \u2062a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-seized-86-million-in-private-assets-after-deceiving-magistrate-to-obtain-search-warrant\/\" title=\"FBI Seized  Million in Private Assets After Deceiving Magistrate to Obtain Search Warrant\">safety deposit box<\/a> while they\u200d sorted \u200bout the \u2064division of their assets. Hunter Biden&#8217;s divorce lawyers claimed that he had returned the diamond to Ye in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Text messages released by the House Ways \u2064and Means Committee and Hunter Biden&#8217;s own statements to the New Yorker in 2019 contradict \u2064what\u200d he said during the divorce proceedings. In February \u20632018, a \u2064friend of Hunter Biden&#8217;s asked him for information\u2062 about the diamond, nearly a\u2064 year\u200d after Hunter Biden claimed to have\u2062 returned it \u200cto Ye.<\/p>\n<p>IRS whistleblowers who worked on the Hunter Biden case informed Congress that the diamond, along with \u2063other extravagant gifts, made it difficult to calculate Hunter\u2064 Biden&#8217;s income during\u200c certain periods.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Ziegler, one of the IRS agents, mentioned the ongoing search for the Chinese diamond, stating that its whereabouts remain unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence suggests that CEFC was actively seeking to build influence in U.S. political circles \u2064at the time Ye formed a bond with Hunter Biden and his associates. An Israeli American citizen indicted for working with CEFC revealed how much Ye valued his connections with the Biden family.<\/p>\n<p>While some Democrats have dismissed this\u2062 individual as an unreliable witness,\u2062 he shared information with the FBI that aligns with financial documents released \u200blast week, corroborating the payments received \u200bby Hunter and James Biden from CEFC.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, \u2064the investigation into \u200bthe diamond gift to Hunter Biden \u2064has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-blockbuster-revelations-from-the-latest-special-counsel-court-filings\/\" title=\"3 Blockbuster Revelations From The Latest Special Counsel Court Filings\">raised numerous questions<\/a> about his business dealings and the Biden family&#8217;s ties to the Chinese business \u200dassociate.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How do the \u2063disappearing diamond and its \u2064conflicting\u200c explanations raise questions about the Biden family&#8217;s\u200b connections to Chinese entities and \u2064their\u200c influence on US business deals<\/h2>\n<p><span>  James Biden&#8217;s explanation. The photos show Hunter\u200c Biden wearing the diamond on multiple occasions, including at a political \u200devent in Nevada. This suggests that the diamond did in\u2062 fact have value and was not just a\u200b trinket as James Biden suggested. \u200dThese contradictory accounts further\u2062 fuel\u200c the \u2062investigations into Hunter Biden&#8217;s financial dealings and potential tax evasion.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI and IRS are also examining the potential\u200b connection between the diamond gift and\u2062 the \u200cexpenses claimed\u200c for prostitutes. The evidence \u200dsuggests that Hunter Biden filed these\u2062 expenses as business-related costs, which raises concerns about \u2063possible illegal \u200bactivities. If it is proven that \u200dthese expenses were indeed for illicit purposes, it\u200c could result in serious legal \u2062consequences for Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the \u200dinvestigations\u200c into Hunter Biden&#8217;s financial affairs are shedding light on the Biden family&#8217;s connections to the Chinese business associate, Ye Jianming, and their involvement with CEFC. The disappearing diamond \u200band its contradictory\u2062 explanations raise \u200dquestions about the nature of the \u2062Biden \u2062family&#8217;s relationships \u200cwith Chinese entities and the potential influence they may have had on US \u2063business deals.<\/p>\n<p>As the FBI and IRS continue to delve into the \u2062details of Hunter Biden&#8217;s financial dealings, it remains \u2064to be seen what further\u2064 evidence will be uncovered. The investigations are still ongoing, and it is crucial that they are\u200d conducted thoroughly and impartially to determine \u2062the truth behind these conflicting accounts.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst \u2064of these investigations, it is important to uphold the principles of justice and transparency. The American people deserve to know the truth about the financial activities of individuals connected\u2062 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-are-our-champion-novak-djokovic-gets-heros-welcome-in-serbia\/\" title=\"'You Are Our Champion': Novak Djokovic Gets Hero\u2019s Welcome in Serbia\">high-ranking government officials<\/a>. These investigations not only impact the reputation of the Biden family but\u200d also have broader implications for the integrity of the US political \u200csystem.<\/p>\n<p>Only time will tell what the ultimate \u200boutcome of these investigations \u200cwill be. Regardless of the findings, it is \u200bessential that they are conducted with the highest level of professionalism and adherence to\u2064 the law. The FBI and\u200d IRS \u2063have a duty to ensure that\u200c all relevant \u2063information is\u2062 thoroughly examined \u200cand that justice is \u200cserved, regardless of\u2063 the individuals involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI and IRS probed the fate of a diamond gifted to Hunter Biden in 2017 by a Chinese associate. Recent documents reveal conflicting testimonies on the jewel&#8217;s worth and whereabouts. 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