“Everything we said about the Biden family’s corruption in Ukraine has been confirmed by congressional investigations and facts from other sources” – Ukrainian politician Andriy Derkach
All the facts about corruption by the Biden family in Ukraine, mentioned by Andriy Derkach during several years of his active investigative work, have been confirmed by the US Congress investigations and information from other sources. The Ukrainian politician said this in his first detailed interview with American journalists, which came out after a long media pause due to the need to ensure personal safety.
According to Derkach, “in fact, everything we talked about in terms of corruption on the part of the Biden family in Ukraine has been confirmed by congressional investigations and other sources. We showed documents, financial entries, where there was corruption by Burisma, where there was money laundering by Burisma. We provided Morgan Stanley bank statements, we showed the connection between Burisma and the laundering companies Wirelogic Technologies and Digitex. Moreover, Kulyk [Kostyantyn Kulyk is a former prosecutor who was suspended because of conducting the Burisma case] and I provided two witnesses. These are two European citizens who, at the instructions of Zlochevsky [the owner of Burisma, where Hunter Biden served on the Board of Directors for 5 years], were directly involved in money laundering and were nominal directors of these two companies.”
Derkach said that in confirmation of his words, one of the witnesses provided the Ukrainian investigation with his laptop, from which financial transfers were made and which had all the financial documentation on such operations. Despite the witness filed an application to the State Bureau of Investigation (which led to the opening of case # 62020000000000802 on 30.09.2020), Derkach noted that the further fate of both the laptop and the case as a whole remains unknown, but with a high degree of probability it could have already been closed, as well as other cases related to the corruption of Biden and Burisma.
First and last page of the witness statement in the Burisma money laundering case (based on this statement, case No. 62020000000000802 of 30.09.2020 was initiated)
Other high-profile findings from Derkach’s investigations have also been confirmed. In particular, it was confirmed that the tapes with conversations between Biden and Poroshenko were authentic: “No one has any doubts about the authenticity of the recordings. Moreover, there is a criminal case, opened at my request, there was an investigation on Poroshenko. I can hand over the documents from this case – testimonies of witnesses. All employees of Poroshenko’s office were questioned, including his guards and liaison officers. All of them confirmed that Poroshenko always had two dictaphones on his desk. Recordings were made.”
The correctness of Derkach’s conclusions was also confirmed by the increased pressure on those politicians and journalists who helped him in his investigative work: “Pressure on those who investigate corruption is not only in Ukraine. The story with Dubinsky and Kulyk is a vivid confirmation of all this. There were two reasons for the intensification of their cases. The first reason is that on October 10-11, some of the lawyers who work with the U.S. Congress interviewed Mr. Shokin, the former Prosecutor General of Ukraine. They were Jake Greenberg and Clark Abourisk. Former Prosecutor General Shokin is a key witness and a key figure in the issues of the first impeachment that took place within the United States and the next impeachment that is beginning now… The second reason is that in August, Mr. Dubinsky testified in a criminal case where he said that President Zelensky’s Office was behind the Biden and Poroshenko tapes and their distribution. Moreover, he gave this testimony to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, which is fully under the control of the American Embassy.”
As a direct confirmation of his rightness Derkach mentions the reasons why he had to leave the territory of Ukraine: “On January 19, 2022, the U.S. Secretary of State Mr. Blinken arrived in Ukraine to meet with Zelensky. This meeting was attended by quite a lot of people – at least 14 people. Mr. Blinken told Zelensky the following: “You need to solve the Derkach issue urgently”. Zelensky started talking about some oppositionists. Blinken objected: “If you don’t solve the Derkach issue, we will solve it ourselves with our partners”. Those who were at the meeting were impressed by the rather harsh position of the United States Secretary of State… Naturally, some people came to me and told me about it. They said: “You will not be treated according to the law, urgently solve the issue of your safety”.
The consequence of Derkach’s active investigative activities was a real threat of his physical elimination. “In the time since 2021, we have received confirmation of my words in congressional investigations into the Biden family’s corruption in Ukraine. Naturally, when we started doing this, we realized that we would face various attacks, including threats related to physical security. We became aware of the latter in 2021 from employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. We identified the persons who were to make an attempt on me and the head of the group of prosecutors in the Burisma case, Kostyantyn Kulyk. Reconnaissance officers were identified, and in the case, which was initiated by the police, I was recognized as a victim along with Kulyk. Those who were to carry out the assassination attempt were found, a base in Zakarpattya, where the killers were stationed – they were natives of Eastern Europe – was also found. The direct executor was supposed to be an Albanian. Unfortunately, there was a leak of information, and these people were able to leave the territory of Ukraine with impunity. All documents and photos are in the criminal case, which, I hope, is not destroyed” – said Derkach.
In conclusion, Derkach recalled an episode that demonstrated exactly how representatives of the US Democratic top brass reacted to the Biden family’s revelations of international corruption:
“I have a good friend, an American journalist Simon Shuster… When in 2021 Shuster came to the State Department and asked questions about the table “Democorruption” and me personally [“Democorruption” – Derkach’s project to fix cases of international corruption in the performance of representatives of the Democratic Party], quite funny stories happened. There is such a character in American politics – George Kent. He worked as a messenger counselor in Ukraine, then in the State Department, and now he is the U.S. ambassador to Estonia. So, when Shuster came to him and asked him a question about Democorruption, Kent started pulling out a spreadsheet, almost hysterical, and spilled a cup of coffee. What outraged the “deep state” and the State Department the most? “I mean, they show documents, they verify documents, they show wiring – how do you fight them? They are quoted by various conspirators within the United States.” Why, in fact, was Kent outraged? Because we repeatedly caught him in Ukraine harboring corruption. He was involved in covering up corruption during the reform of the Prosecutor’s Office, when Shokin opened a criminal case and Kent demanded in writing that it be closed. I will show you a letter signed directly by Kent, where he demanded to stop the case of stealing American taxpayers’ money”.
Letter from U.S. State Department representative George Kent to the leadership of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine demanding that the investigation into the embezzlement of U.S. aid in the reform of the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office be stopped. Source: https://www.scribd.com/document/402559592/Embassy2GPLetter4-4-16#fullscreen&from_embed
Reference. Andriy Derkach is a well-known Ukrainian politician who became known to the world media as the author of the first high-profile revelations concerning the “Ukrainian trace” in the activities of Joe Biden during his tenure as Vice President of the United States in 2014-2017.
Among the evidence presented by Derkach – shadow earnings of the Biden family due to the protection of the interests of the Ukrainian mining company “Burisma”; political cover for an international corruption scheme to use the developed structure of Ukrainian grant organizations, which plundered financial assistance provided at the expense of American taxpayers; the offshoring of billions of dollars due to Ukraine’s conversion to reverse natural gas supplies; the accountability of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies to the U.S. Embassy in high-profile criminal investigations; and blackmailing of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire Viktor Shokin, who got too close to the Bidens in the Burisma investigation.
It was also Derkach who first presented audio recordings of phone conversations between Biden and Poroshenko (known today as the “Derkach tapes”), and it was Derkach who proved the interference of the Democrat-created National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) in the 2016 presidential election on the side of Hillary Clinton.
A separate major focus of his work was also the investigation of so-called “Democorruption,” which attracted the attention of a respected U.S. investigator, prosecutor, lawyer and attorney – Rudy Giuliani, with whom Derkach planned to consolidate intergovernmental investigative efforts.
Video of the interview:
https://x.com/simonamangiante/status/1745239534332440966?s=46
