Hunter Biden Business Partner’s Testimony Tightens Joe Biden’s Burisma Noose

At a critical moment when executives of the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma were pressuring board members Hunter Biden and Devon Archer to do more to block the Ukrainian government’s prosecution of company founder Mykola “Nikolai” Zlochevsky, Archer says that Hunter Biden put Zlochevsky and another company executive directly in touch with then-vice president Joe Biden on a speakerphone call from overseas.

Days later, the vice president came to Kyiv. In meetings with then-president Petro Poroshenko and other top Ukrainian officials, Biden threatened that if a prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, was not fired, he would withhold $1 billion in economic aid desperately needed by Ukraine as it tried to stand up a new government while fending off forcible Russian aggression on its eastern border. Shokin was then investigating Zlochevsky. Despite his ties to Poroshenko, Shokin was fired about four months later, under the threat from Biden, as well as an additional threat from the heavily U.S.-backed International Monetary Fund (IMF) to withhold about $40 billion in funding.

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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At a critical moment when executives of the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma were pressuring board members Hunter Biden and Devon Archer to do more to block the Ukrainian government’s prosecution of company founder Mykola “Nikolai” Zlochevsky, Archer says that Hunter Biden put Zlochevsky and another company executive directly in touch with then-vice president Joe Biden on a speakerphone call from overseas.

Days later, the vice president came to Kyiv. In meetings with then-president Petro Poroshenko and other top Ukrainian officials, Biden threatened that if a prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, was not fired, he would withhold $1 billion in economic aid desperately needed by Ukraine as it tried to stand up a new government while fending off forcible Russian aggression on its eastern border. Shokin was then investigating Zlochevsky. Despite his ties to Poroshenko, Shokin was fired about four months later, under the threat from Biden, as well as an additional threat from the heavily U.S.-backed International Monetary Fund (IMF) to withhold about $40 billion in funding.

About the Author

Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.