It's Totally Normal That Joe Biden's Son Works for a Ukrainian Energy Company. [View all]

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As the Associated Press reports today, there is more fishiness yet. While Hunter Biden's new company is said to be working to get Ukraine off its dependence on Russia for energy, Burisma also reportedly "leases natural gas fields in the breakaway Russian-backed state of Crimea."

The company is also owned by Nikolai Zlochevskyi, whose "ties to Ukraine's ousted pro-Russian president" include serving as a senior minister in several government posts under Viktor Yanukovych.

At the time of the appointment, Hunter Biden said this:

As a new member of the Board, I believe that my assistance in consulting the Company on matters of transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion and other priorities will contribute to the economy and benefit the people of Ukraine.”

Said transparency seems to be elusive on the American side of this deal.

http://www.thewire.com/global/2014/06/its-totally-normal-that-joe-bidens-son-works-for-a-ukrainian-energy-company/372385/



Ukrainian energy firm hires Biden’s son as lawyer.

Pacheco said Biden’s son came to Burisma’s attention after he was introduced by Devon Archer, another new Burisma board member, to Alan Apter, Burisma’s board chairman. Archer works with Hunter Biden at Rosemont and was a top fundraiser for now-Secretary of State John Kerry when Kerry ran for president in 2004. Zlochevskyi approved Biden’s hiring, Pacheco said.

Zlochevskyi, 48, worked as minister of natural resources and environment under Yanukovych and most recently was deputy secretary of Ukraine’s national security and defense council, which advised Yanukovych on defense matters.

Zlochevskyi also served in the Ukrainian parliament from 2007 to 2011 as a member of the Party of Regions, the political party affiliated with Yanukovych and traditionally aligned with pro-Russian interests.

Zlochevskyi’s name is missing from Burisma’s web site, but financial documents in Cyprus as well as U.S. Securities and Exchange records show that he owns the bulk of Burisma’s shares. Zlochevskyi’s Cyprus-based Brociti Investments Limited controls Burisma.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/7/ukrainian-energy-firm-hires-biden-son-as-lawyer/?page=3#ixzz342Igp4E1