A FBI the informant was charged with two counts of making false statements to federal authorities about the president Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden business with a Ukrainian energy company.
A grand jury in the Central District of California indicted Alexander Smirnov, 43, as part of special prosecutor David Weiss’ investigation, with Weiss separately investigating Hunter Biden for gun and tax violations.
The 37 pages charge said Smirnov had been an FBI informant since 2010. Smirnov reportedly told the FBI in 2020 that Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, hired Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his father, from all kinds of trouble” , which the indictment indicates. a false statement. In another, according to the Justice Department, Smirnov said Burisma officials paid Hunter Biden and the president $5 million each when Joe Biden was vice president.
According to the indictment, claims Smirnov first made to the FBI in June 2020 “were fabrications.” Joe Biden is described in court documents as “Public Official 1,” while Hunter Biden is described as “Businessman 1.”
The indictment claimed that although Smirnov said he had contact with Burisma officials during Joe Biden’s tenure in the Obama administration, he only had contact after the vice president of the era left office in 2017, when he “had no ability to influence American policy.”
“In short, the accused turned his usual and unusual business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into corruption allegations against Public Official 1, the presumptive presidential candidate of one of the two major political parties, after expressing prejudice against Public Official 1 and his candidacy,” the indictment states.
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Congressional Republicans have launched an impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden and his son, accusing the president of corruption, with Smirnov’s allegations playing a central role in their investigation.
Smirnov was arrested at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas following an overseas trip and was scheduled to make his first appearance in federal court Thursday afternoon. It is unclear whether Smirnov has a lawyer.
