A former informant FBI accused of falsely stating that the President Joe Biden and his son Hunter took bribes, which enabled Republicans to try to remove the US president from office. According to local media reports this Thursday, he pleaded guilty.

According to the court decision, 44-year-old Alexander Smirnov admitted to lying about alleged bribes millionaires he said the US president and his son Hunter received from the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, according to court documents filed in a California court and cited by the newspaper. Los Angeles Times.

In a motion filed after his arrest last February in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Justice Department said the former informant He had contacts with foreign intelligence services.including Russia.

Smirnov agreed to plead guilty of creating false records in a federal investigation, obstruction of justice and failure to pay taxes and penalties on $2.1 million in income between 2020 and 2022.

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The agreement provides for a penalty of imprisonment for a term of not less than two years and not more than six years in addition to pay more than $600 thousand in damagesthe newspaper reports.

Statements by Smirnov, who has been an FBI informant since 2010, prompted Republicans in the US Congress to launch an investigation against the American president and his son.

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The President who said this did not interfere in the proceedings against his sonjustified the pardon, saying the judge treated Hunter differently because he was his son.

DOJ Special Prosecutor David Weiss is in charge of the case. investigation of Hunter in California for tax fraud and it was he who signed the agreement with Smirnov. (EFE)