New Dubinsky and Kulyk case: How Joe Biden is cleaning up evidence of his corruption in Ukraine with the hands of Ukrainian authorities
The end of 2023 has become a time of bad news and dim political prospects for US President Joe Biden. Declining approval ratings in key states and increasingly persistent attempts by the House of Representatives to put Biden through impeachment proceedings have forced him to focus on defending himself against a host of potential charges of influence peddling and corruption. The most vulnerable part of Biden’s political career is undeniably tied to Ukraine. And it was Ukrainian investigators who uncovered the strongest evidence of corruption in the performance of Joe Biden and his son Hunter, who served on the board of directors of the Ukrainian mining company Burisma for five years.
However, Biden’s situational partner was the dependent Ukrainian authorities, which during the second half of 2023 made several important decisions at once in order to get Biden out of the spotlight and possible investigations. On the one hand, the court released all witnesses in the $6 million cash bribe case, which was given to close cases against Burisma and its owner, the odious Mykola Zlochevskyy.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2023/08/5/7414355/
On the other hand, Ukraine has tightened the prosecution of those journalists and politicians who at various times publicized information about the corrupt practices of Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Ukrainian MP Andriy Derkach, who was the first to provide evidence of Biden’s corruption (including the famous “Derkach tapes” with conversations between Joe Biden and Petro Poroshenko), has disappeared from the public eye altogether. His fate is still unknown, but in his home country he has been stripped of his citizenship and the status of people’s deputy, and a number of criminal cases are being investigated against him.
Journalist and people’s deputy Oleksandr Dubinsky is currently in pre-trial detention after the SBU said that Dubinsky was part of an agent network organized by the Russian security services. The reason for the detention was Dubinsky’s participation in Andrei Derkach’s press conference about corruption in Burisma, although such a press conference took place back in 2019.
https://t.me/dubinskypro/14996
Prosecutor Konstantin Kulik, who directly investigated Burisma’s activities and who actually returned $1.5 billion of so-called “Yanukovych family” money (the 4th fugitive president of Ukraine) to the Ukrainian state budget, was also accused of belonging to a Russian agent network. It seems that he will be the next target of attention from the Ukrainian security services, who will try to find him outside of Ukraine and extradite him to his home country. The first step, in the form of an unexpectedly timely journalistic investigation into his possible residence in Germany, has already been taken.
Even the leading Ukrainian politicians are no longer afraid to recognize the speed and peremptoriness of the Ukrainian authorities. In particular, the most famous mayor of Kiev, Vitaliy Klitschko, believes that Ukraine is moving towards authoritarianism and is also turning into a country where “everything depends on the whim of one person”.
But let’s return to the story of one of the key witnesses to the Biden family’s corrupt activities in Ukraine – Kostyantyn Kulyk. Kulyk, a military prosecutor who served for a long time in the ATO zone, became known as the head of a group of prosecutors from the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine who initiated the return to Ukraine of $1.5 billion worth of assets stolen by fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych.
After the money was returned to Ukraine, Kostyantyn Kulyk switched to another high-profile case – the investigation of corruption in Burisma.
It was Kulyk who prepared a dossier of accusations against Hunter Biden. The seven-page document claimed that Ukrainian prosecutors had sufficient evidence of corruption aimed at Joe Biden’s personal enrichment.
Even the New York Times drew attention to this dossier at one time. “The Kulyk dossier has not only revitalized the Biden case. The seven-page document he circulated also accuses U.S. diplomats of covering up crimes committed by Biden,” the publication close to the Democratic Party noted.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/world/europe/ukraine-prosecutor-biden-trump.html
In an interview with The Hill, Kostyantyn Kulik claimed that he tried to pass data on gross violations by Democrats and American diplomats to the US government. However, all the evidence was blocked by officials at the US Embassy in Ukraine.
It should be noted that the result of blocking this dossier was the dismissal of US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, which suggests that “Kulyk’s dossier” had every reason to be seriously considered by the White House and the US Congress.
But with the election victory of Joe Biden, Kulyk’s situation deteriorated sharply. A week after the US election in November 2019, Kulyk was fired from the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine. The reason for the dismissal was a far-fetched excuse – Kulyk allegedly “did not pass the certification”, although it was about a loophole in the law that allowed to dismiss prosecutors undesirable to the authorities. As a result, Kulyk was presented by Zelensky’s administration as a gift to the future Biden administration to demonstrate its own devotion and loyalty.
Nevertheless, Kulyk did not stop the investigation. Despite his dismissal from the prosecutor’s office, he decided to bring Burisma case to trial, seeking to repeat the success of his previous case about Yanukovych’s money.
A year after his dismissal, Kulyk presented a diagram showing exactly how Burisma laundered money. All the cash that was in Ukraine was transferred to the West under fake contracts and deposited in accounts in the Latvian subsidiary of the Ukrainian Privatbank (in particular, with the participation of proxy companies Wirelogic Technology AS and Digitex Organization LLP).
https://www.youtube.com/live/ho-IF3h2wr0?si=VLHbm3Ipea0eKtCN
The amounts involved were in the range of 10 million dollars per month.
This money went from Latvia to pay for the services of western lobbyists of Mykola Zlochevsky. In particular, Kulyk made public evidence that 3.5 million dollars was received by the Rosemont Seneca firm controlled by Hunter Biden. Another million euros was sent to former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski. These data were later confirmed by financial monitoring of Cyprus and Latvia, as well as financial statements on Rosemont Seneca’s accounts from Morgan Stanley Bank.
In 2020, at a press conference organized by Andriy Derkach, Kulyk gave details about the aforementioned $6 million bribe for closing the Burisma case. As Kulyk claimed, and as the website of the international network of independent anti-corruption investigators OCCRP states today, the $6 million was in fact only the first part of an even larger bribe, which was to total $50 million dollars.
https://www.occrp.org/ru/daily/12599-burisma-50
Money planned to be transferred as a bribe for closing the Burisma case
Kulik said that he officially, by report, as the head of a group of prosecutors, reported about it to the Prosecutor General and initiated in the SBU the organization of operational actions to fix the bribe by creating/using a controlled enterprise to which the second part of the money was to be transferred. It is noteworthy that according to Kulyk’s information, the communicator from Zlochevsky was the same personal lawyer and top manager of Burisma – Andriy Kicha. “But then there was a change in the leadership of the Prosecutor General’s Office: Yuri Lutsenko was replaced by Ruslan Ryaboshapka. After that, the fixing of the bribe of 50 million stopped, and Ryaboshapka said that the case of Burisma does not exist at all,” – noted Kulyk.
Also according to Kulyk, the money laundering scheme involved not only Burisma, but also the aforementioned company Rosemont Seneca, which belonged to Devon Archer, close to the Biden family. And that the money laundering took place just at the time when Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were on Burisma’s board of directors in 2014-2019.
Moreover, Kulyk managed to obtain valuable witness testimony to back up his words. He personally questioned two Latvian citizens who served the aforementioned Wirelogic Technology and Digitex Organization proxy companies. One of the witnesses serviced a separate account of Burisma, which was used only by Zlochevsky. He confirmed that at the instruction of Zlochevsky’s assistants, he made various transfers for his benefit. Also according to the witness, payments to Hunter Biden’s companies were made from this account. In confirmation, the witness provided the investigators in Ukraine with his laptop, from which the money transfers were made, and which had all the financial documentation on such operations. What is happening now with this case and with this valuable evidence remains a mystery, but judging by the general trend, it is closed, like all other cases related to corruption of Biden and Burisma.
A fragment of the interrogation of Latvian citizens who confirmed the transfer of funds to Hunter Biden’s companies
At the same time, Kulyk drew attention to an interesting detail. All references to Rosemont Seneca, which were in the Burisma corruption case and were mentioned in the investigation, were removed from the final case when it was submitted to the court. “Originally Biden’s companies were mentioned in the Burisma case, but in the version of the indictment that was handed down in the $6 million bribe case, those companies disappeared,” Kulyk noted at the press conference. At the same time, Kulyk claims that “Biden’s family received more than $3 million dollars from Burisma.”
https://www.youtube.com/live/ho-IF3h2wr0?si=VLHbm3Ipea0eKtCN
Thus, it is obvious that having Kostyantyn Kulyk as a witness, Joe and Hunter Biden would have something to bring to trial for. Therefore, today, instead of working in the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, Kostyantyn Kulyk is forced to stay outside of Ukraine, fearing for his life and freedom.
Last chance
How can it be explained that people who laundered millions of dollars, ran a corrupt business, bribed the Vice President of the United States and his son remain at large, while those who were not afraid to speak openly about these schemes are under investigation or forced to leave their homeland? The answer to that question is absolutely obvious.
So when Congressman James Comer and members of his committee say that members of the Biden family will soon be subpoenaed to the House of Representatives for questioning, they should also remember those investigators from Ukraine who risked their careers, reputations, and lives so that the world would learn the truth about the Bidens’ corruption schemes.
It is in Ukraine that lies what Biden and his family are trying to hide with all their might. So after Hunter Biden’s guilty plea, prosecutors and the Oversight Committee need to move on – and listen to those who investigated the Bidens’ corruption in Ukraine.
