Investigators “established that funds, flowing through commercial organizations, including oil and gas conglomerate Burisma Holdings, operating in Ukraine, have been used in recent years to carry out terrorist attacks in Russia,” says Investigative Committee spokeswoman.
Probes have been launched into the financing of terrorist activities in Russia and abroad in the wake of the concert hall terror attack that left 140 people dead, Russia’s Investigative Committee announced on Tuesday.
The list of suspects include Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings, which is linked to a corruption scandal surrounding the Biden family that’s been underway for years.
The criminal investigation stems from a complaint filed by a group of Russian MPs and public figures following the Crocus City Hall attack outside Moscow last month.
The U.S. and Ukraine have been fingered as responsible parties in the attack by the original complaint.
So far, investigators “established that the funds, flowing through commercial organizations, including the oil and gas conglomerate Burisma Holdings, operating in Ukraine, have been used in recent years to carry out terrorist attacks in Russia,” committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said.
⚡️⚡️⚡️Representative of the Russian Investigative Committee Svetlana Petrenko: Funds received through the oil and gas company Burisma Holdings have been used in recent years to carry out terrorist acts
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Terrorist activities have also been perpetrated beyond the country, aimed at the “elimination of prominent political and public figures, as well as causing economic damage,” she added.
The Investigative Committee has been working “in cooperation with other intelligence services and financial intelligence,” Petrenko noted, which entails “checking sources of income and further movement of funds in the amount of several million US dollars,” and examining whether “specific individuals from among government officials, people with civic and commercial organizations of Western countries” were involved.
Former Ukrainian MP Andrey Derkach in January had accused Burisma of financing terrorism on behalf of the Ukrainian government.
From RT:
In the spring of 2014, following the US-backed coup in Kiev, the Ukrainian energy firm hired Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer on its board of directors, offering $1 million a year in pay. Biden’s father Joe was President Barack Obama’s vice president at the time, and oversaw Washington’s Ukraine policy. He once famously bragged about getting a corruption prosecutor fired – which just happened to occur after that prosecutor began investigating Burisma.
Nikolay Zlochevsky’s company also offered protection payments to the government in Kiev, according to former Ukrainian MP Andrey Derkach. Zlochevsky paid some “800 million hryvnias [over $21 million] for terrorism financing” in “various jurisdictions,” Derkach claimed in January.
“The leaders of Ukraine’s security services make no secret of the fact that they carry out terrorist acts and political assassinations for extra-budgetary cash,” he said at the time. “Once again: Biden’s partners in the corruption business in Ukraine finance terrorist acts, thus avoiding responsibility for corruption in Ukraine.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently announced that Islamic radicals committed the Crocus City Hall terror attack, but suggested they were directed by Ukrainian and Western proxies.