President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, flew to Moscow for a meeting with a now-sanctioned Russian oligarch who reportedly has close ties to President Vladimir Putin.
That’s according to emails found on Hunter’s infamous abandoned laptop obtained by the Daily Mail, which further reported that the oligarch has avoided recent U.S. sanctions.
“Vladimir Yevtushenkov, 73, owned a company which reportedly supplied Putin’s forces with drones used for deadly bombing raids in Ukraine and until last year owned key Russian defense contractor RTI,” the British newspaper reported. “But while he was added to the UK and Australian sanctions lists this month [Yevtushenkov] remains one of a handful of oligarchs unsanctioned by the Biden administration.”
Hunter Biden and his business partners, Yale schoolmates Devon Archer and former secretary of state John Kerry’s stepson Chris Heinz, were “courting Yevtushenkov for an investment in their real estate company in 2012 and 2013,” the Daily Mail noted, adding that emails show that “in 2011, his now-jailed business partner Archer was traveling to Russia, staying in luxury hotels and dining on bear meat, laying the foundations for future real estate deals that he believed could be lucrative for the firm.”
“Moscow is going great… It does look like I will be back quite a bit based on our initial response to the real estate fund pitch,” he wrote in a November email to an associate.
The emails further show that several months later, on February 16, 2012, Biden scheduled a trip to Moscow to have dinner with Yevtushenkov at the headquarters of his company Sistema.
Journalist Vicky Ward said on her Substack blog that the Russian billionaire traveled to the U.S. afterwards for meetings with Hunter Biden and his business partners.
“The document in my possession is written in Russian. It has been authenticated by a source who was an insider at Yevtushenkov’s company, Sistema,” Ward reported. “The source tells me they copied it from the server because they were concerned by what it showed. It purportedly shows the itinerary of Yevtushenkov and the directors of his holding company AFK Sistema for a visit to the U.S. from March 12 to March 15, 2012. On that itinerary is a breakfast on March 14th with Hunter Biden at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in New York and a three-hour meeting with “Rosemont Realty” the next day in Dallas, Texas to “review real estate portfolio Rosemont Realty.”
Citing another source, Ward said an excited Yevtushenkov told colleagues before embarking on the trip that he had been introduced to Hunter Biden by Elena Baturina, who was married to the late mayor of Moscow, Yury Luzhkov. The widow reportedly wired a $3.5 million payment to the investment firm Rosemont Seneca Thornton, which The Washington Post reported is controlled by Archer.
Hunter Biden’s attorney said his client “had no interest in and was not a co-founder of Rosemont Seneca Thornton.”
“Hunter Biden was a co-founder and CEO of the investment firm Rosemont Seneca Advisors. But Mesires said Hunter Biden did not co-found Rosemont Seneca Thornton. It’s not clear what connection exists between Rosemont Seneca Advisors and Rosemont Seneca Thornton,” CNN reported.
Yevtushenkov had “breakfast with Rosemont Realty” in Dallas at the Ritz-Carlton on March 15, according to his itinerary, the Daily Mail reported, noting that Archer outlined two meetings with Hunter Biden and the oligarch in Washington eight months later.
More on that from the newspaper:
‘I am meeting with Evtushenkov for dinner Sunday evening January 27th in DC at Cafe Milano and then meeting in my DC offices Monday the 28th at 10am,’ Archer wrote, using the alternative spelling for the oligarch’s name.
‘We are going to be reviewing our commercial office investment program with him and his team. From there we are going to see one of our properties in the afternoon called Dulles View, a $110mm office property in the DC sub market, as an example of our portfolio holdings.
‘Joining me will be one of my Partners in Rosemont Seneca and an Advisory Board Member of Rosemont Realty, Hunter Biden.’
Archer’s email was to Kazakhstan banker Marc Holtzman, a key fixer for Archer and Hunter.
Holtzman replied: ‘Vladimir mentioned this. I raved about you and will see him next week in Davos so will reemphasize this.’
Ward wrote of the Dallas meeting, “But what is so strange about the scheduled three-hour meeting, in Dallas, Texas, is that there is no name attached to it. Yet Yevtushenkov had scheduled an entire morning with “Rosemont Realty” — which was not even to be held at its headquarters, but at a tiny satellite office.”
She also questioned whether Yevtushenkov’s reported ties to Hunter Biden “have anything to do with the appearance of leniency to date from the U.S. Treasury?”
“Why is he on the list of 45 Russian oligarchs who are not sanctioned?” Ward queried.
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