Biden's Kazakhstan connection

 Washington Examiner:

Hunter Biden's 'close friend' charged with treason in Kazakhstan

 Former Kazakhstan intelligence chief Karim Massimov, whom Hunter Biden once described as his "close friend" and who once posed for a photo with Biden and his father, President Joe Biden, was arrested by Kazakh authorities last week on alleged suspicion of high treason.

Massimov's arrest came Thursday, one day after he was fired from his post as chairman of the Kazakhstan National Security Committee. He was arrested amid nationwide violent protests sparked by, among other things, an increase in fuel prices. The unrest has resulted in thousands of arrests and dozens of deaths.

Hunter Biden, while serving on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, shared a close business relationship with Massimov during his second stint as Kazakhstan's prime minister from 2014 through 2016, according to records from Hunter Biden's laptop.


Emails and texts from the laptop previously reported by the Washington Examiner show that Hunter Biden scheduled a meeting in 2014 with Massimov in Kazakhstan to discuss an energy deal with Burisma. Hunter Biden ditched his Secret Service security detail before departing from Paris to Kazakhstan to discuss the deal, the records show.

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There is more.

The pictures suggest that Joe Biden lied when he said he did not know anything about Hunter's business dealings.  Joe Biden's participation suggests it was a key to Hunter getting the deal.  Indeed, $142,300 was wired to Hunter's associate Archer on the same day according to a Republican Senate report.

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