REUTERS reveals Hunter Biden never worked in Ukraine the entire time he worked for Burisma

Reuters has done some actual journalism on Hunter Biden and his work for Burisma and it is quite revealing.

First, we learn that Hunter never actually worked in Ukraine when he worked for Burisma making $50k a month:

During his time on the board of one of Ukraine’s largest natural gas companies, Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden, was regarded as a helpful non-executive director with a powerful name, according to people familiar with Biden’s role at the company. …

Interviews with more than a dozen people, including executives and former prosecutors in Ukraine, paint a picture of a director who provided advice on legal issues, corporate finance and strategy during a five-year term on the board, which ended in April of this year.

Biden never visited Ukraine for company business during that time, according to three of the people.

According to one of Reuter’s sources, Biden was a ‘ceremonial figure’:

Both sources said that around the time Biden was appointed, Burisma was also looking to secure a financing deal with foreign investment funds, including one in the United States.

Biden helped to find lawyers to work on this process, before it broke down due to the start of the war in east Ukraine, one of those two sources said. “He was a ceremonial figure,” that person added.

And what’s worse, it appears that Biden was appointed to ‘protect’ the company from investigations:

Oleksandr Onyshchenko, a businessman and former member of the Ukrainian parliament who knows the Burisma founder, said it had been Zlochevsky’s idea to appoint Biden as a director. “It was to protect (the company)” at a time when it was facing investigations, said Onyshchenko, who left the country in 2016. In the run up to Biden’s appointment, a popular uprising led to the removal of the Russian-backed Yanukovich in February 2014.

Now how exactly would Hunter Biden protect Burisma? Oh wait, I know..

Also, Biden wasn’t just paid $50,000 per month either. He made a lot more than that according to Reuters:

According to payment records reviewed by Reuters that two former Ukrainian law enforcement officials say are Burisma’s, the company paid about $3.4 million to a company that was controlled by Archer called Rosemont Seneca Bohai LLC between April 2014 and November 2015.

Specifically, the records show 18 months in which two payments of $83,333 per month were paid to Rosemont Seneca Bohai for “consulting services.” The two sources said that one of those monthly payments was intended for Biden and one for Archer. Reuters was not able to independently verify the authenticity of the documents or how much money Hunter Biden received.

It’s nice to see actual reporting on this from Reuters. There’s a lot of smoke here and you know there’s a fire underneath it all. But don’t wait for the very biased MSM to become interested in this unless they want Biden to lose.

There’s a lot more in the Reuters article if you want to read it. (h/t: Hotair)


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