A Zelensky’s gift to Biden at the beginning of his Presidential campaign: Ukraine’s Supreme Court closed the case against the manager of Burisma Group and does not have more accusations against the company.
By Sergei Shevchuk,
El regalo de Zelensky para Biden en el inicio de la campaña presidencial: la Corte Suprema de Ucrania cerró el caso contra el administrador de Burisma Group y no tiene más acusaciones contrala gerencia de la empresa.
Las acciones de la Procuraduría de Ucrania y las instancias judiciales con respecto a la compañía extractora de gas Bursima Group han llamado la atención de la prensa y los políticos estadounidenses por su inmenso parecido con Watergate. La razón, por supuesto, no está en los dudosos contratos de la empresa ni en las violaciones a las leyes de protección del medio ambiente, sino en que, desde mayo de 2014 hasta mayo de 2019, Hunter Biden, hijo del entonces Vice-Presidente y actual presidente de EEUU, hizo parte del Consejo Directivo de la empresa. Hunter llegó a Burisma durante la crisis que esta tuvo con la justicia, en concreto, cuando sus activos fueron bloqueados por Gran Bretaña. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/12/the-money-machine-howahigh-profile-corruption-investigation-fell-apart). A principios de 2015 la Fiscalía de Ucrania decretó una orden de detención por enriquecimiento ilícito contra el dueño de la compañía, Nikolay Zlochevski. A finales del mismo año, el Vice Presidente Joe Biden, tan adepto a la democracia y a la idea de una economía transparente, chantajeó al entonces presidente ucraniano, Petro Poroshenko, con un crédito por un billón de dólares exigiéndole despedir al Fiscal General Víktor Shokin. «Nos vamos dentro de seis horas. Si el fiscal no ha sido despedido todavía, usted no obtendrá su dinero». De esta forma describió la conversación el mismo Biden (https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vicepresident joe-biden) .
Semejante comportamiento de Biden le jugaría a él mismo más tarde una mala pasada, pues sería la razón por la que la Comisión de Investigación del Congreso de EEUU levantara una investigación en su contra. Sobre esto hablaremos más adelante.
En junio de 2020 tres personas fueron detenidas in fraganti en Kiev intentado sobornar a la dirección de NABU (Oficina Nacional Anticorrupción por sus siglas en ucraniano) y SAP (Fiscalía Especial contra la Corrupción) (https://nv.ua/ukraine/politics/vzyatka-6-millionovdollarov-dlya-nabu-video figuranty-vse-podrobnosti-novosti-ukrainy50094230.html).
Las fotografías de los dólares en bolsas de plástico transparentes fueron publicadas en todos los medios de comunicación de Ucrania e incluso difundidas por el resto del mundo. Dicho soborno tenía la intención de cerrar el caso penal contra el exministro de Ecología, Nikolay Zlochevski, dueño de Burisma Group. En el nuevo caso penal, el de soborno a empleados del estado, figuraban: el primer subdirector de la Inspección Central de Impuestos de Kiev, Nikolay Iliashenko, el director del departamento legal de la empresa Burisma, Andrey Kicha y la ex jefa de uno de los departamentos del Servicio Fiscal de la Nación, Elena Mazurova.
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The most loyal Court in the world
A few weeks before the official inauguration of Joe Biden Junior’s campaign for presidential reelection, Ukraine’s Supreme Anti-Corruption Court confirmed the agreement between the charged Andrey Kicha and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. Kircha was convicted for an attempt of bribery to a state officer, (part 5, article 27, part 4 article 369 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) to five years of prison. But, thanks to an agreement, the punishment was reduced to one year of conditional freedom. Besides, the agreement said that Kicha should cooperate with the prosecutor, and he should transfer 100 million UAH (2.7 million US dollars) to the account of the state fundraising platform United24, a company that raises money to help the Ukrainian Army.
(https://hromadske.ua/ru/posts/popytka-podkupa-antikorrupcionerov zadollar6-mln-eks-menedzher-burisma-priznal-vinu-i-dolzhen-zaplatit-100- mlngrn-na-vsu)
But, which is the reason for such an unusual sentence? The redaction sources inside the order forces of Ukraine say that this decision of the College High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine was a personal order by Zelensky himself. Besides, there were made actions for hiding important investigation documents. The framed one, Kicha, was judged but not punished in fact. So, the 100 million of UAH he had to send to Zelensky’s fund was not from his personal accounts. Nevertheless, nor the court nor the justice organisms were interested in this part of the story.
The President’s order was followed. For public opinion and the press, a short official press release was published. But the real facts and the main actors of the case were not denounced and the investigation, of course, did not have any results.
In the Congress at the meanwhile…
Hunter Biden has been under the sight of American journalists for a while. They had denounced his drug addiction, as well as his not-very-clear business in Ukraine and China. We do remember well the first political trial against American Ex-President Donald Trump, linked to a phone call in which he was pressing Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to open an investigation respecting the Bidens.
Since the autumn of 2022, when Republicans got the majority in the elections to the U.S. House of Representatives and could take control of the Investigation Committee, the attention to Hunter Biden considerably increased, since the Congressmen started to investigate his commercial relationships and how they could have affected the Joe Biden’s decisions as Vice President and as President. Hunter Biden was included in some of those criminal cases as well.
James Comer, Kentucky’s Congressman and new president of the Supervision Committee from the House of Representatives, declared in October 2022 that the Committee was not persecuting Hunter Biden for political reasons. “We are investigation Hunter Biden’s case because we believe that it is a menace for national security and we are afraid that it can compromise Joe Biden», said Comer.
(https://time.com/6218879/hunter-biden-investigations-james-comer houserepublicans/)
On 3 April 2023 in an interview on Fox News, James Comer claimed his suspicion concerning the document sent by Hunter Biden to the direction of Burisma in Ukraine. «It was a government document, and we are concerned that it was a secret document», the senator said.
The Legal Committee of the House of Representatives, headed by the Congressman from de Ohio Jim Jordan, executes its own series of audiences for the case of Hunter Biden. Particularly, Jordan and his Republican college Mike Turner, President of the Intelligence Committee of the House of Representatives, were investigating the origin of the correspondence taken from Hunter Biden’s laptop which was presented as proof in his case and published by the New York Post few weeks before of the Presidential elections in 2020. (https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-revealshowhunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/)
In these letters was included the name of the Ukrainian businessman Vadim Pozharski, the director’s adviser of Burisma Group. Pozharski, in 2015, thanked Hunter Biden for having organized a meeting with his father (American Vice President at the time Joe Biden) and claimed that he was “very happy and flattered for having had the chance to spend some time with him in Washington».
American congressmen are intended to make clear whether the laptop presented by journalists of the New York Post belongs in fact to Hunter and whether the letters are real. Besides, politicians have serious questions for the workers on Twitter about the temporary blocking of the possibility for users to twit and retweet the NYP article about Hunter’s deals in Ukraine back in October 2020. The ban lasted two days, exactly the time the most active part of the presidential electoral campaign in the USA lasted.
Nevertheless, so far, Congress has not been interested in the financial scams of the President’s son, although back in 2014 the Prosecutor of Ukraine had documents about the illegal sale of the natural gas station in Kherson and proof of the illegal money that was paid to the Directive Counsel of Burisma.
(https://www.unian.info/politics/10709259-ukraine-starts-legal-due diligenceof-case-of-hunter-biden-related-burisma-riaboshapka.html) Reuters reported an amount of $3,4 million paid to the company Rosemont Seneca, which represented Hunter Biden’s interests from April 2014 until November 2015. The payments were made for “Consulting service”, which leaves a space for assuming the value of Hunter in the working frame of the gas extraction company and his father’s role in defending Zlochevski’s interests.
(https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hunter-biden ukraineidUSKBN1WX1P7)
The silence as the best P.R instrument
After all that has been said, written, and recorded about Biden’s family interests in other countries, and considering the research made by Republican politics, the most effective strategy for Joe Biden’s political career in the future, has been the silence the Ukrainian side in the Burisma scandal. They have effectively kept silent about the bribery and not very clear activities of the NAB.
Most probably is that considering his own and Trump’s mistakes, the current American President is not expressing any public requirements to Zelensky. However, when a huge scale war is running against Russia and Ukraine is depending on the USA and its allies literally in everything, Ukrainian Court closes all criminal cases linked to Hunter and allows the culprit to elude his responsibility, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office publishes a triumphant press release about the 100 million or UAH given to the Military Forces of Ukraine. An amazing stroke of luck for the 84-year-old Democratic presidential candidate, and the disgraced ex-minister Zlochevsky who was also a little bit lucky.
Sergei Shevchuk, Ukrainian political scientist. Graduated from Kiev University. Expert in relations between the countries of Eastern Europe and the USA
