US President Joe Biden’s scandal-plagued drugs and sex addicted son Hunter Biden possibly is going to hit news headlines once again as one of his companies has been accused of funding and sponsoring Crocus City Hall terrorist massacre that killed 144 innocent Russians and injured dozens. It may be mentioned here that, couple of years ago, Hunter Biden became lobbyist in exchange for millions of dollars of Al Qaeda-connected ultra-Islamist Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
According to Russia’s Investigative Committee, criminal investigations into the financing of gruesome terrorist massacre in Russia and abroad have been initiated against several suspected companies. It said, list of the suspected entities includes Ukrainian industrial conglomerate Burisma Holdings, which is linked to a corruption scandal surrounding the members of Biden family, including Hunter Biden that has been dragging on for years.
Russian media outlet RT in a report says, the criminal investigation twigs from a complaint filed by a group of Russian MPs and public figures in the aftermath of the deadly Crocus City Hall attack outside Moscow last month. The original complaint identified the US and its allies as allegedly organizing a string of attacks on Russian soil.
Quoting committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko, RT says, so far, investigators have “established that the funds, flowing through commercial organizations, including the oil and gas conglomerate Burisma Holdings, operating in Ukraine, have been used in recent years to carry out terrorist attacks in Russia. Terrorist activities have also reached beyond the country, aimed at the “elimination of prominent political and public figures, as well as causing economic damage”.
Svetlana Petrenko further says, the committee’s specialists have been working “in cooperation with other intelligence services and financial intelligence. The scrutiny currently revolves around “checking sources of income and further movement of funds in the amount of several million US dollars”, and examining the potential involvement of “specific individuals from among government officials, people with civic and commercial organizations of Western countries”.
Ukrainian conglomerate Burisma is best known internationally for its scandalous ties to the current first family in the United States. In the spring of 2014, following the US-backed coup in Kyiv, the Ukrainian energy firm hired Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer on its board of directors, offering US$1 million a year as cash for influence, when Joe Biden was Vice President under Barack Obama. Joe Biden at that time was overseeing Washington’s Ukraine policy. He once infamously bragged about getting a corruption prosecutor fired – which just happened to occur after that prosecutor began investigating Burisma. This statement of Joe Biden has been reported in a large number of media outlets in the world, including leading news outlets in the US.
According to former Ukrainian MP Andrey Derkach, Nikolay Zlochevsky’s company also offered protection payments to the government in Kyiv. Zlochevsky reportedly paid some “800 million hryvnias [over US$21 million] for terrorism financing” in “various jurisdictions”, Derkach claimed in January this year.
Andrey Derkach said, “The leaders of Ukraine’s security services make no secret of the fact that they carry out terrorist acts and political assassinations for extra-budgetary cash. Once again: Biden’s partners in the corruption business in Ukraine finance terrorist acts, thus avoiding responsibility for corruption in Ukraine”.
Derkach further claimed it was common practice for the owners of large businesses in Ukraine to ‘donate’ to the war effort in exchange for immunity from prosecution. He pointed to a criminal case against Nikolay Zlochevsky relating to a US$6 million cash bribe that ended with the Burisma owner paying a US$1,800 fine.
Earlier in an article, Lucas Leiroz, journalist, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, and geopolitical consultant said:
“Zlochevsky has been identified by Russian investigators as one of GUR’s main backers. It is believed that he has already sent a total of 22.5 million US dollars to the agency. State agencies, in theory, should not receive this type of irregular funding, which leads us to believe that this cash is used for parallel, unofficial activities – which, in the Ukrainian case, means real terrorism.
Russian investigators believe, for example, that Zlochevsky’s money was used to finance the terrorist drone operation against Moscow in May 2023.
“Considering his involvement in the purchase of drones and intelligence networks, it is virtually a certainty for Zlochevsky be involved in the case. Other activities in which GUR is directly involved have also drawn the attention of Russian authorities regarding the possibility of direct financing by Zlochevsky. This is the case with the recent murders and attempted murders of civilians within the territory of the Russian Federation, for example.
“The GUR is behind the attacks against journalists Daria Dugina, Vladlen Tatarsky, writer Zakhar Prilepin and other well-known Russian public figures. Certainly, the funding to pay for the complex operations behind these crimes did not come from official sources, but from irregular money, like that which Zlochevsky provides to the GUR. However, it is necessary to remember that the activities of Ukrainian intelligence have never been “autonomous”. Since 2014, the entire Ukrainian state apparatus, including its secret service, has been controlled by American agents. In practice, American intelligence uses its Ukrainian assets as proxies to commit crimes that are previously planned in Washington”.
