This Thursday, the US Department of Justice charged a former whistleblower with FBI in lying to the agency about the president’s relationship Joe Biden and his son Hunter with a Ukrainian energy company.

An informant named Alex Smirnov told FBI agents that Biden and his son They received five million dollars each from Bursima between 2015 and 2016, which is not true, according to the indictment presented to the court in California.

In turn, as specified in the document, the man falsely told the FBI that some Burisma employees told him that they hired Hunter Biden because “He will protect them through his father from all kinds of problems.”

The indictment was brought by Special Counsel David Weiss, the special prosecutor investigating Biden’s son for a number of crimes, including illegal possession of weapons and tax evasion.

Smirnov, who has worked as an FBI informant since 2010, faces two criminal chargesOne for making false statements to a government agent and the other for falsifying documents in a federal investigation, the 37-page document states.

Former FBI informant He was arrested last Wednesday in Las Vegas. According to US media reports, he will appear before a federal judge this Thursday.

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In a court document, the prosecutor stated that Smirnov contacted the executives of Burisma in 2017, when Biden was no longer in government and “had no opportunity to influence US foreign policy.”

“The informant,” the prosecutor specified, “turned his usual contacts with Bursima (…) into blackmail charges against” Biden after expressing “prejudice” against the Democrat.

Charges against Smirnov will arrive two weeks before Hunter Biden heads to Congress testify in the impeachment inquiry against his father on charges of influence peddling.

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Republicans say Biden’s family, especially his son Hunter, received more than 15 million dollars from foreign companies and governments of Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Romania and China in the period from 2014 to 2019. Their partners would receive another $9 million.

Parallel to Congressional Investigation, Biden’s Controversial Son He has two open criminal cases to his name, one for tax fraud in California and the other for illegally purchasing a gun in Delaware. (EFE)