New scandal: Biden and Kwasniewski “protected” the gigantic scale of theft in Ukraine
Verkhovna Rada deputy Andriy Derkach, who previously published recordings of Petro Poroshenko’s negotiations with former US Vice President Joe Biden, today released a new piece of compromising evidence.
Today, at a press conference in Kiev, new evidence was presented of the laundering of millions of dollars stolen by Yanukovych-era Minister of Ecology Nikolai Zlochevsky from Ukrainians with the subsequent withdrawal of these millions to the accounts of the Biden-linked company Rosemont Seneca Bohai in the American bank Morgan Stanley, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Former Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski was also involved in the scheme.
We are talking about money from the gas production company Burisma Holdings, which belonged to Minister Zlochevsky, and where Biden’s son was registered.
“At one of the first press conferences, we showed bank transactions for hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Biden family, for his son Robert Hunter Biden, who was one of the directors of the notorious Burisma, owned by Yanukovych-era minister Nikolai Zlochevsky.
The presence of Biden in the leadership of Burisma and payment for his services is nothing more than a political “roof” that protected Zlochevsky from Ukrainian law.
After a series of press conferences, our group of investigators, namely, the senior prosecutor of the group of prosecutors of the General Prosecutor's Office for the investigation of economic crimes of the Yanukovych regime in 2016-2019, Mr. Konstantin Kulik, was contacted by two foreign citizens (“Witness 1” and “Witness 2”), directly engaged in laundering the millions of dollars stolen by Zlochevsky from Ukrainians with the subsequent withdrawal of these millions to the accounts of the Burisma company and their subsequent withdrawal to the accounts of the Biden company,” Andriy Derkach said.
Konstantin Kulik showed a video recording in which witnesses confirm and describe in detail a corrupt scheme for money laundering and withdrawal, in which the companies Wirelogic Technology AS and Digitex Organization LLP participated.
“Witness 1” stated that he took part in money laundering, providing services for the legalization of illegal income and tax evasion. To do this, dozens of companies were registered in offshore zones with dummies, citizens of these countries, received powers of attorney for the management of these companies for dummies, citizens of Latvia, and opened accounts in Latvian banks.
“I know the circumstances of the legalization and laundering of money by Nikolai Zlochevsky, which was transferred from Ukraine, which did not have a legal origin,” said Witness 1.
Nikolai Zlochevsky became a client of Witness 1 in 2009-2010.
“In Ukraine, Nikolai Zlochevsky had a lot of unaccounted cash, hidden from taxes. In hryvnia. We are talking about an amount of up to $10 million monthly. This cash was constantly converted into non-cash money and deposited into the accounts of shell companies under the guise of various invented contracts and services,” said Witness 1.
His company controlled this process and also organized fictitious foreign trade contracts that had no real execution. “Witness 1” was in contact with a person from Burisma as a manager of the execution company.
“They gave technical instructions on what amounts to withdraw from Ukraine and for what purposes to spend them, and sent documents,” he explained.
The work was carried out with money that belonged personally to Zlochevsky, who used the services of withdrawing money secretly, “witness 1” emphasized.
“He used the position of minister to provide preferences to his own business structures,” the witness explained.
From November 2014 to October 2015, payments were made to the account of the American company Rosemont Seneca Bohai. “I noticed strange, repeating amounts of $83. There were about 333,33 payments. It was as if some general payment was divided into equal parts that did not attract the bank's attention. I saw no contract confirming these payments. This was unaccounted money from Nikolai Zlochevsky, which was transferred from the companies Wirelogic and Digitex,” said Witness 20.
Payments were made not only to Rosemont Seneca Bohai, but also to the accounts of individuals who were members of the board of Burisma.
“A large sum was also transferred, about 200 thousand dollars, to Alen Aptor at Citibank. For consulting services. During the same period, there were transfers to the account of an individual, Alexander Kwasniewski, in a Polish bank, a million euros. There were also consulting services,” explained “witness 1.”
"Witness 2" confirmed the testimony of "Witness 1". “The operations were performed in favor of Nikolai Zlochevsky. They paid at Rosemont Seneca, this company belonged to Hunter Biden,” he explained.
“All of these transactions were fictitious. A lot of money was paid in Ukraine so that government agencies would turn a blind eye to this,” Konstantin Kulik quoted the testimony of a witness.
The total amount transferred to the account of Rosemont Seneca Bohai in the American bank Morgan Stanley for “consulting services” amounted to 3 million 400 thousand US dollars. Money was also transferred to Alen Aptor and Alexander Kwasniewski.
“All this money, about $5 million, was stolen from Ukrainians and laundered through the above-mentioned shell companies. This is only payment for Biden’s political “roof” to Zlochevsky. This is only part of the payments for a short period, documented only by these witnesses and financial monitoring reports of Latvia, Cyprus and Ukraine,” said Konstantin Kulik.
According to his estimates, the total amount stolen and laundered through such schemes amounts to tens of millions of dollars.
“The Biden family provided political protection for Zlochevsky from the money he stole in the amount of at least 3 million 400 thousand US dollars,” concluded Konstantin Kulik.
The full recording of the conversation and financial monitoring reports of Latvia, Cyprus and Ukraine are currently posted on the Nabu Leaks website.
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