Hunter Biden Took $40M from Russian Oligarch While Dad Was VP, Leak Shows

Democrat President Joe Biden’s son Hunter took a staggering $40 million from a powerful Russian oligarch, newly emerged leaks have revealed.

Hunter Biden received the huge investment from Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina for a real estate deal in 2012 – while Joe Biden was Barack Obama’s vice president.

However, this is not the first time Hunter Biden has been linked to Baturina, who is the wife of the former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.

She was previously found to have paid a $3.5 million fee to Hunter’s real estate entity to access the American business market.

The new leaks on the $40M deal were revealed by the Daily Mail, which obtained documents from the anti-corruption group, the Kazakhstani Initiative on Asset Recovery.

The deal was structured as a part of a pooled real estate fund to be allocated into long-term investments Hunter identified as profitable in the United States.

Such investment vehicles are common among sophisticated investors and experienced fund managers.

Due to the complexity of a fund’s transactions, the entity is often subject to stringent disclosures with government oversight agencies.

Hunter’s overall acquisition plan included acquiring seven office buildings throughout Texas, Colorado, Alabama, New Mexico, and Oklahoma with $52 million in cash and $160 million in leverage, the Daily Mail reported.

Hunter’s real estate fund, Rosemont Realty, had apparently raised a total of $69.7 million to invest in 2.15 million square feet of office space.

His firm put $15 million of its own money into the fund.

It is unknown where Hunter’s business attained such a large sum to invest within the complex investment scheme.

The $40 million Baturina invested into the fund reportedly flowed from a Swiss company she owned named Inteco Management AG.

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The company is a plastics and construction giant that made Baturina a Russian oligarch and the richest woman in Russia in 2012, Forbes reported.

“Rosemont Realty has entered into property acquisition contracts for $212,580,000,” Hunter’s prospectus read, according to screenshots given to the Kazakhstani Initiative on Asset Recovery via Baturina’s brother Kenes Rakishev, who is a connected Kazakh businessman and partner of Hunter’s.

In 2015, Rakishev was photographed with Hunter and then-Vice President Joe Biden at Cafe Milano in Washington, DC.

The photo is one example of 17 known instances where Joe Biden has been involved in the Biden family business:

“The Managing Partnership will receive a total investment of $69,700,000 from the partners” a Russian translation of the prospectus reads.

“The Managing General Partner will invest at least $15,000,000 of share capital on the same terms as all partners in the Investment Partnership.”

The fresh reporting of a Biden family business venture during the time Joe Biden was vice president raises questions of whether or not Hunter was selling influence to the White House in order to obtain such a large amount of infused cash.

Such complicated investment schemes are typically performed by experienced fund managers and with investors who feel comfortable with the fund managers’ experience and historic returns.

Two years after the real estate deal, in 2014, Baturina was living in the United Kingdom with her late husband Yuri Luzhkov.

Before his death, Luzhkov was accused of real estate corruption.

Baturina and her husband immigrated to the UK in 2011 after Luzhkov was dismissed from public office by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as part of a public corruption probe.

The former mayor, in particular, was accused of using his office to approve more than 20 real estate projects linked to Baturina’s business interests, according to the Homeland Security Committee.

In 2014, Hunter received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Baturina, according to a 2020 report by Senate Republicans.

The report revealed her involvement with Hunter was “a financial relationship,” though no further explanation of the payment to the younger Biden was given.

Hunter’s real estate venture was occurring while Hunter sat on the board of notoriously corrupt Ukraine energy firm Burisma.

He reportedly collected $80,000 a month salary from Burisma while Joe Biden was vice president.

Immediately after Joe Biden left office, Hunter’s salary was cut in half, without explanation.

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By Frank Bergman

Frank Bergman is a political/economic journalist living on the east coast. Aside from news reporting, Bergman also conducts interviews with researchers and material experts and investigates influential individuals and organizations in the sociopolitical world.

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