¶ Burisma Holdings
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Burisma Holdings Limited is a energy exploration and production holding company based in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is registered in Limassol, Cyprus.
Burisma is owned by Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky through his company Brociti Investments. Zlochevsky was minister of natural resources under Viktor Yanukovych, former president of Ukraine.[1]
¶ History
Hunter Biden joined the board of directors for Burisma on April 18, 2014, as did former John Kerry advisor Devon Archer.[1:1] At the time, Archer and Biden were working together as managing partners at Rosemont Seneca Partners in Washington, D.C.[2]
In 2017, Burisma announced a partnership with the Atlantic Council to promote "anti-corruption measures" in Ukraine.[3]
¶ 2020 presidential election
In the lead up to the 2020 United States presidential election, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned Meta Platforms of "a potential Russian disinformation operation" around former vice president Joe Biden's family and Burisma.[4]
¶ COVID-19
On March 27, 2022, Maria Zakharova of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation published an alleged timeline of American-Ukrainian bioweapons research which suggested that Burisma had begun cooperating with Metabiota on an unnamed "science project in Ukraine" in 2014.[5][6]
On July 20, 2023, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley released a previously-top-secret witness form from the FBI which described Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky's $5,000,000 payments to both then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, in exchange for the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin.[7][8]
¶ External links
Seddon, M. (2014, May 13). Biden’s Son, Polish Ex-President Quietly Sign On To Ukrainian Gas Company. BuzzFeed News. http://archive.today/2022.07.16-175011/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/maxseddon/bidens-son-polish-ex-president-quietly-sign-on-to-ukrainian ↩︎ ↩︎
Vice President Joe Biden’s son joins Ukraine gas company. (2014, May 14). BBC News. http://archive.today/2020.09.24-132703/https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27403003 ↩︎
Seddon, M., & Olearchyk, R. (2019, September 29). Ukraine gas company feels heat of US impeachment probe. Financial Times. http://archive.today/2020.10.17-035832/https://www.ft.com/content/3c3e0aec-e2a2-11e9-b112-9624ec9edc59 ↩︎
Zuckerberg, M. (2024, August 26). Letter to the Honorable Jim Jordan. Meta Platforms. https://web.archive.org/web/20240828180428/https://prod-i.a.dj.com/public/resources/documents/meta-letter-082024.pdf ↩︎
Abelson, R. (2022, March 29). Russian Foreign Ministry Releases Alleged “BioBiden” Timeline of US Bioresearch in Ukraine. The Gateway Pundit. http://archive.today/2022.03.29-193514/https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/russian-foreign-ministry-releases-alleged-biobiden-timeline-us-bioresearch-ukraine/ ↩︎
BIOBIDEN - Comment by Maria Zakharova, Russian MFA Spokeswoman. (2022, March 27). Yandex 360. http://archive.today/2022.03.29-165136/https://docs.yandex.ru/docs/view?url=ya-disk-public://GlidhdbCd9V3aTmhXbzKlGgKMEnlf3S3TVYzaxjxLA5JKnGMJTQzAq5fhc22SkPZq/J6bpmRyOJonT3VoXnDag%3D%3D:/BIOBIDEN - Comment by Maria Zakharova.docx&name=BIOBIDEN - Comment by Maria Zakharova.docx ↩︎
Singman, B. (2023, July 20). Bidens allegedly “coerced” Burisma CEO to pay them millions to help get Ukraine prosecutor fired: FBI form. Fox News. https://web.archive.org/web/20230722100329/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/grassley-releases-unclassified-fbi-form-containing-details-of-biden-criminal-bribery-scheme-with-burisma-ceo ↩︎
Singman, B. (2023, July 21). Five most significant allegations against the Bidens in FBI FD-1023 form. Fox News. https://web.archive.org/web/20230722214155/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/five-most-significant-allegations-against-the-bidens-fbi-fd1023-form ↩︎