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In the United States, the first arrests have been made in the case related to Hunter Biden's laptop, the son of former President Joe Biden. This was reported by Member of Parliament Oleksandr Dubinsky in the Telegram channel Dubinsky.pro.
According to him, two former high-ranking officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation—Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavidez—turned themselves in to the American authorities on charges of providing false testimony to Congress.
"They ran the Foreign Influence Task Force and, according to a Justice Department press release, actively participated in investigations of Hunter Biden and his laptop before the election 2020 year. Specifically, they approved the operation 'Round River,' under which negative information about the Bidens and the Ukrainian company Burisma (where Hunter served on the board) was labeled as possible Russian disinformation," Dubinsky noted.
The deputy said that in August 2020-th they held a "defense briefing" for Senators Grassley and Johnson, who were preparing a report on the millions received by Hunter from Burisma and related persons, warning that their investigation could advance Russian propaganda.
"On the day this report was released, Floris disseminated it inside the FBI along with a short summary that mentioned a probable bribe of $7 million from Burisma's founder," Dubinsky writes.
According to him, in 2023 year, they denied this in Congress, saying, "Floris asserted that she did not conduct any discussions on the topic, and Benavidez stated that he learned about the laptop only from Wikipedia 2023-th."
"For reference, I have been in detention for three years on fabricated charges for publicly stating at a press conference that in 2019 year Ukraine framed Zlochevsky, and that Hunter Biden sat on the board of Burisma along with the company’s directors."
Since 2024 year, material has been coming out one after another in the United States: Biden family corruption in Ukraine is not Russian disinformation, but the FBI participated in concealing it. They used Ukraine as a proxy and hung a 'Russian trace' on everyone who publicly talked about it to whitewash the Bidens. At the same time, Zelensky has held me in prison for three years in a fabricated case, accusing me of working for Russia. The case is collapsing, and in order not to release me, Zelensky fabricated a new one and sent me to a Minsk prison," Dubinsky said.
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