Report: Hunter Biden Helps Burisima Execs To Create Account With 'Corrupt' Foreign Bank

Hunter Biden and his employer at a Ukrainian gas company were involved in opening a foreign bank account that was closed after a money laundering investigation.

Emails reveal that Burisma, the allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas company that hired the President's son in 2014, opened an account with him in Malta at a bank that later shuttered due to a financial crimes investigation.

Hunter Biden and Burisma Set up Account With Satabank

The revelation that the First Son and Burisma are linked to a bank accused of flouting money laundering rules follows claims made by a longstanding FBI informant that Burisma's owner sent $10 million to Hunter and his father through a complex web of offshore transactions, which were revealed this month by lawmakers.

Hunter Biden provided income statements, passport information, and even utility bills to Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi in 2016 to open an account at the now-defunct SataBank in Malta, according to emails obtained from his laptop.

The first son was instructed to provide "a certified declaration of source wealth," have them notarized by a lawyer, and send them to the auction house owner in Malta. In 2020, the auctioneer Pierre Pillow and his business PGP Trading Limited were accused of laundering "millions of euros."

Maltese prosecutors claim they were alerted to a suspicious transaction involving Burisma and selling a disassembled oil rig. The Times of Malta reported in December 2020 that during the court case, it was revealed that Burisma owner Mykola Zolchevsky had rented Pillow's apartment in Ta' Xbiex, Malta, in 2014 while applying for citizenship of the country through its golden visa program.

Zlochevsky and Burisma were the subjects of a financial crime investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office and US authorities in 2014. The case was resolved with no charges filed, Daily Mail reported.

In a separate email exchange with Hunter, Pozharskyi identified the financial institution as Satabank, and an assistant for the then-second son subsequently sent the financial institution a tax identification number and signature.

Investigation of Burisima Payments to Bidens

According to the reports, Pillow was never convicted of any crime, and his attorney stated that "due diligence was performed and the bank approved it."

Satabank ceased operations in 2018 after Malta's Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit discovered "gross deficiencies" in the bank's compliance with anti-money laundering and terrorism financing laws.

Per NY Post, the emails from Satabank were first reported on Substack by the independent journalist KanekoaTheGreat. The report follows allegations that Hunter and Joe Biden each accepted $5 million in bribes to assist Zlochevsky in evading a corruption investigation when the bank accounts were opened.

According to Greene, Zlochevsky allegedly told an FBI informant that "it would take 10 years" for investigators to "discover the payments made to the Bidens because there were so many bank accounts."

Hunter, who earned up to $1 million annually from 2014 to 2019 while serving on Burisma's board, introduced Pozharskyi to his father in April 2015 at a dinner in Washington, DC. Eleven months later, in March 2016, Shokin was terminated from his position, weeks before the Satabank accounts were opened.