Mykola Zlochevsky is the founder of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company. He is also a former Ukrainian government official who served as Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources from 2010 to 2012. Zlochevsky allegedly paid a total of $10 million in bribes to Joe and Hunter Biden in 2015 and 2016 in exchange for then-Vice President Joe Biden’s assistance in getting Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired,

In 2020, it was revealed that Hunter Biden, the son of then-Vice President Joe Biden, served on the board of Burisma Holdings from 2014 to 2019. This revelation led to allegations that Joe Biden had used his position to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate Zlochevsky, which would have benefited his son’s business interests.

In addition to the allegations of corruption, Zlochevsky has also been linked to the Russian government. In 2019, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Zlochevsky, accusing him of being an asset of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).

“The US intelligence community has a high degree of confidence in their assessment of Zlochevsky as SVR. This is not a new assessment; the intelligence community under Obama knew this, and Obama was briefed on it. Joe Biden and Victoria Nuland were briefed as well,” according to a national security official.

The Treasury Department’s sanctions against Zlochevsky cited his “close ties” to the SVR and his “use of Burisma Holdings to launder money for the SVR.” The sanctions also froze Zlochevsky’s assets in the United States and prohibited U.S. persons from doing business with him.

It was revealed by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Monday that the “foreign national” mentioned in an FD-1023 form by a confidential human source (CHS) not only claimed to have bribed Hunter and Joe Biden but possessed a total of 17 audio recordings of his conversations with them about the arrangement. He created the recordings as a sort of “insurance policy.”

Last week Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Anna Paulina Luna, and Nancy Mace said that the foreign national identified in the FD-1023 form is Zlochevsky.

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