An FBI informant has been charged with two counts of making false statements to federal authorities about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s business with a Ukrainian energy company.
A grand jury in the Central District of California indicted Alexander Smirnov, 43, as part of special counsel David Weiss’s investigation, with Weiss separately having investigated Hunter Biden for firearm and tax violations.
The 37-page indictment said Smirnov was an informant with the FBI since 2010. Smirnov allegedly told the FBI in 2020 that Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, hired Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems,” which the indictment stated is a false statement. In another, according to the Department of Justice, Smirnov said Burisma officials paid Hunter Biden and the president $5 million each
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