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Latvian government says it flagged `suspicious' Hunter Biden payments in 2016
John Solomon Reports ^ | December 17, 2019 | John Solomon

Posted on 12/17/2019 6:13:22 AM PST by Cboldt

As the U.S. presidential race began roaring to life in 2016, authorities in the former Soviet republic of Latvia flagged a series of " suspicious" financial transactions to Hunter Biden and other colleagues at a Ukrainian natural gas company and sought Kiev's help investigating, according to documents and interviews.

The Feb. 18, 2016 alert to Ukraine came from the Latvian prosecutorial agency responsible for investigating money laundering, and it specifically questioned whether Vice President Joe Biden's younger son and three other officials at Burisma Holdings were the potential beneficiaries of suspect funds.

"The Office for Prevention of Laundering of Proceeds Derived from Criminal Activity ... is currently investigating suspicious activity of Burisma Holdings Limited," the Latvian agency also known as the FIU wrote Ukraine's financial authorities.

The memo was released to me by the Ukrainian General Prosecutor's Office and confirmed by the Latvian embassy to the United States.

Latvian authorities said they did not get any incriminating information back from Ukraine to warrant further investigation and did not take additional action in 2016.

But the memo adds to the mounting evidence that there was ongoing investigative activity surrounding Burisma Holdings and Hunter Biden's compensation as a board member in the weeks just before Joe Biden forced the firing of the Ukraine prosecutor overseeing the Burisma investigation in spring 2016.

(Excerpt) Read more at johnsolomonreports.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: 0160218; 2016; 201602; 20160208; 20160218; biden; burisma; hunterbiden; latvia; ukraine
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Lots of detail at the source.
1 posted on 12/17/2019 6:13:22 AM PST by Cboldt
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Gonna be funny when Biden’s kid gets extradited in the middle of the campaign.


2 posted on 12/17/2019 6:16:47 AM PST by ameribbean expat (Socialism is like a nude beach - - sounds great til you actually get there. -- David Burge.)
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The Office for Prevention of Laundering of Proceeds Derived from Criminal Activity

Sounds like we need one of those.

3 posted on 12/17/2019 6:20:06 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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-- Gonna be funny when Biden's kid gets extradited in the middle of the campaign. --

Complicated business.

But early in 2019, NABU and the Ukraine prosecutor general's office announced they were reopening the investigation into Burisma, specifically to revisit the allegations about money laundering, according to the notice of suspicion released by prosecutors in that country. You can read NABU's request to reopen the probe here.

That probe is ongoing and recently was expanded to look at other issues. And the entire Burisma episode is now part of the larger impeachment proceedings playing out in America against President Donald Trump.


4 posted on 12/17/2019 6:20:41 AM PST by Cboldt
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I really hope they nominate Biden.


5 posted on 12/17/2019 6:22:09 AM PST by z3n
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The Office for Prevention of Laundering of Proceeds Derived from Criminal Activity
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Sounds like we need one of those.
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If we had one, it would get staffed with partisans.


6 posted on 12/17/2019 6:22:58 AM PST by z3n
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yeah... :(


7 posted on 12/17/2019 6:24:42 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: Cboldt

This story has been around at least a few weeks. GOP Senate is ignoring it, naturally. Solomon can report until he is blue in the face but without the drama of Biden Jr. taking the 5th under the bright lights of a Senate hearing none of this is going anywhere.


8 posted on 12/17/2019 6:25:12 AM PST by lodi90
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There’s no doubt that the whole Hunter Biden / Burisma thing was corruption at its most basic level.

Sometimes the real crime is not what’s illegal, but what’s legal.


9 posted on 12/17/2019 6:26:13 AM PST by babble-on
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-- ... without the drama of Biden Jr. taking the 5th under the bright lights of a Senate hearing none of this is going anywhere. --

The US Senate is where truth goes to die. There are other venues, and any venue is better than the US Senate.

10 posted on 12/17/2019 6:34:02 AM PST by Cboldt
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We do. The banking regulations (Treasury) are all over this stuff, and often harrass innocent people.


11 posted on 12/17/2019 6:35:19 AM PST by Cboldt
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Maybe this will land Hunter a job in the prison laundry.


12 posted on 12/17/2019 6:37:50 AM PST by Mobties (Let the markets work! Reduce the government's footprint!)
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I trust that if Solomon reports it...it is GOLD.
This guy is thorough and deserves a Pulitzer for all he is uncovering. He’s one of the few, if not the only, Journalist that I actually respect.

PS- Latvians trying to fix their upcoming election by bullying the Ukraine to investigate a Biden!


13 posted on 12/17/2019 6:38:55 AM PST by JerseyDvl ("If you're going through hell, keep going.")
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14 posted on 12/17/2019 6:40:05 AM PST by AnthonySoprano
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He won’t use the Whistleblower’s name, and he won’t Investigate the Bidens either.

Lindsey Graham


15 posted on 12/17/2019 6:42:07 AM PST by AnthonySoprano
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-- Maybe this will land Hunter a job in the prison laundry. --

Don't hold your breath.

16 posted on 12/17/2019 6:44:59 AM PST by Cboldt
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Solomon better watch out, or they’ll be listening to his office and reading his email - wait.


17 posted on 12/17/2019 6:46:03 AM PST by AnthonySoprano
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they already gave his phone records to Schiff!


18 posted on 12/17/2019 6:47:31 AM PST by allwrong57
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Lord help! They’re even holding hands! What reason could there be for that, except to send a signal to some people?


19 posted on 12/17/2019 6:50:36 AM PST by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Cboldt

The bigger picture is the suggestion that this round robin setup with Biden, hunter, American tax payer dollars and the funding of Soros globalist agenda is interesting


20 posted on 12/17/2019 6:51:23 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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