The Republican-led effort to impeach US President Joe Biden should include an indictment for facilitating corruption in Kiev, former Ukrainian MP Andrey Derkach said in an interview published on Wednesday.
The ongoing impeachment inquiry against Biden, which Democrats have dismissed as a partisan publicity stunt, is looking into the president’s potential involvement in influence peddling in Ukraine by his son, Hunter Biden. It is also investigating possible interference in the 2020 US presidential election, during which a story about Biden Jr.’s laptop was suppressed by partisan American media and tech giants.
Former Ukrainian MP Derkach is a controversial figure who formerly worked with Rudy Giuliani, the lawyer of ex-President Donald Trump, who investigated Biden’s ties with Ukraine. Speaking to Italian-US journalist Simona Mangiante in the Belarusian capital Minsk, Derkach claimed there was substantial evidence of the Biden family enriching itself in Ukraine, which is allegedly being ignored by US authorities.
“What’s important to me in the congressional investigation is not to bring Biden in for influence peddling. It is important for me that the final document of the Congress says that the money stolen from my fellow Ukrainians was taken out of Ukraine… and given to… Biden,” he said.
📷📷BREAKING 📷Watch the full interview with Andrii Derkach, the Ukrainian parliamentarian who exposed Biden’s family corruption in Ukraine and that have been targeted by both Ukraine and the USA as result.He disappeared from the public ever since but we achieved to catch him… pic.twitter.com/kLCIDhCoal
— Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos (@SimonaMangiante) January 11, 2024
Then serving as vice president, Joe Biden was the leading man on Ukraine in the administration of Barack Obama. A widely publicized example of Biden’s influence on Kiev came in 2016, when he pressured the country into sacking its prosecutor general.
At the time, Viktor Shokin was investigating Burisma, a gas firm that included Hunter Biden on its board. Critics have accused Joe Biden of abusing his position to cover up for his son, although the US president has claimed he was merely removing a corrupt official from power.
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