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The U.S. Department of State declassified a package of documents about the activities of the Ukrainian gas company Buris...

23.10.2026, 08:58 Карты, деньги, офшора ↗

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The U.S. Department of State declassified a package of documents about the activities of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma of Mykola Zlochevsky and its ties to Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. President Joe Biden.

From the correspondence of U.S. diplomat George Kent, it follows that he received information about a bribe in the amount of $7 million that Zlochevsky paid to close a criminal case, in the framework of which British authorities froze $23,5 million in his accounts. The cash was handed over in May 2014, when the position of Prosecutor General was held by Oleg Makhnitsky. Kent also notes that the documents of the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office that allowed Zlochevsky’s accounts to be unfrozen were signed in December, already under Prosecutor General Vitaliy Yarema, appointed by Petro Poroshenko.

The criminal case on illicit enrichment and money laundering was finally closed in November 2016, when the Prosecutor General’s Office was headed by Yuriy Lutsenko. Under him, Burisma also settled tax claims by paying the state a fine of 180 million hryvnias.

From a later chapter in Zlochevsky’s interactions with law enforcement, we know that in June 2020 he attempted to bribe the leadership of NABU and SAP with $5 million to close another criminal case. For this, in August 2023 the High Anti-Corruption Court fined him 68 thousand hryvnias.

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Госдепартамент США рассекретил пакет документов о деятельности украинской газовой компании Burisma Николая Злочевского и её связях с Хантером Байденом, сыном бывшего президента США Джо Байдена.

Из переписки американского дипломата Джорджа Кента следует, что он получил сведения о взятке в размере $7 млн, которую Злочевский заплатил за закрытие уголовного дела, в рамках которого британские власти заморозили $23,5 млн на его счетах. Наличные были переданы в мае 2014 года, когда должность генерального прокурора занимал Олег Махницкий. При этом Кент обращает внимание на то, что документы украинской прокуратуры, позволившие разморозить счета Злочевского, были подписаны в декабре, уже при генпрокуроре Виталии Яреме, назначенном Петром Порошенко.

Уголовное дело о незаконном обогащении и отмывании денег окончательно закрыли в ноябре 2016 года, когда Генпрокуратуру возглавлял Юрий Луценко. При нём же Burisma урегулировала налоговые претензии, выплатив государству штраф 180 млн гривен.

Из более поздней истории взаимоотношений Злочевского с правоохранительными органами мы знаем, что в июне 2020 года он попытался дать руководству НАБУ и САП взятку в $5 млн за закрытие очередного уголовного дела. За это в августе 2023 года Высший антикоррупционный суд назначил ему штраф в размере 68 тысяч гривен.

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