BIDEN Scandal Expands Kazakhstan--John Kerry's daughter also got cash from oligarch. Obama administration most corrupted in history.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8849097/amp/As-GUY-ADAMS-uncovers-links-suspect-regime-just-damage-Hunter-Biden-cause.html
Prince Andrew,the oligarchs & a new bombshell for Joe Biden:America's convulsed over pictures of former VP's son. But as...

GUY ADAMS uncovers his links to a suspect regime(& the Duke of York) just how much damage can he cause?
Hunter's a 50yr-old American lawyer whose elderly father Joe hopes in just over a fortnight to unseat Donald Trump at the U.S. Presidential election.

He's also twice-married..

father of 5 kids(1 via a fleeting affair with a former stripper)who has struggled with cocaine & alcohol addiction for most of his adult life & in 2014,when his dad was Barack Obama's VP,managed to get booted out of U.S. Naval Reserve for failing a drug test.

This week saw a...

October surprise when NYPost obtained footage of Hunter:lying in bed smoking a crack pipe;reclining in the bath with cigarette hanging out of his mouth & starring in a 12-min phone video that saw him hoofing class A narcotics while engaged in a sex act with an unidentified woman.

Most sensationally it also published leaked emails that appear to implicate Joe in long-standing controversy over his son's rackety business career. To understand why, you must first know Biden Jr has for years been criticised for his lucrative but ethically questionable work...

overseas,which has often created apparent conflicts of interest with Joe's official roles.
For example,in 2014,when Joe as VP,was helping to implement U.S. policy in Ukraine,Hunter took a highly-paid job with a Ukranian energy company called Burisma..

Around the same time, he...

built murky & contentious connections with Russia,helping his investment advisory firm Rosemont Seneca receive some $3.5m from the billionaire widow of former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhov(best known on these shores for once donating £138,000 to Sadiq Khan's Mayor's Fund for London)..

Then there was a somewhat dubious episode in China, where Hunter arranged for an entrepreneur called Jonathan Li,with whom he was setting up an investment fund,to hold a meeting(& enjoy a very public handshake)with Joe in a Beijing hotel lobby during an official visit...

Such ventures, in regions of the world hardly known for their probity, have always smelled distinctly whiffy. So what,ought we to make of the revelation that, when his father was VP, Biden Jr was doing business in a 4th cash-soaked but highly corrupt country?
Namely: Kazakhstan..

The Mail can reveal between 2012 & 2014,Hunter worked as a sort of go-between for Kenes Rakishev,a self-styled 'international businessman,investor & entrepreneur'with close family connections to kleptocratic regime of his homeland's despotic former president Nursultan Nazarbayev.

(Nazarbayev is a name readers may be familiar with:he's the dictator famed for taking Prince Andrew on occasional goose hunts)
Emails passed to this newspaper via anti-corruption campaigners from the Central Asian country reveal that Biden Jr held extensive meetings with Rakishev

who was looking to invest a portion of his personal fortune in NY & DC. He also travelled to the Kazakh capital of Astana to hold business discussions.

Hunter Biden then attempted to persuade Rakishev to buy into a Nevadan mining company,brokering a series of meetings with the..

firm,before convincing him to invest a cool million dollars with Alexandra Forbes Kerry,the film-maker daughter of Democrat Senator & former Presidential candidate John Kerry.

Rakishev,who wrote messages in broken English,appears to have become intimate with the VP's son,calling

Hunter'my brother!' & 'my brother from another mother!'
They shared gossip about their family holidays & dined together at luxury restaurants in NY & DC ('I'm on vacation with family[at] Lake Michigan..trying to spend some much needed time with my wife & daughters. It's my 20th..

anniversary of marriage tomorrow'Hunter told Rakishev in July 2013).
It may even be that Joe Biden himself was dragged into the oligarch's orbit. An unverified photograph,published on the website of an anti-corruption group called the Kazakhstani Initiative on Asset Recovery...

appears to show Hunter introducing his Dad to both Rakishev & Karim Massimov,the former Kazakh Prime Minister.
So who exactly is Rakishev?

In the UK,he is perhaps best known due to a bizarre 2008 episode when he'd helped a fellow oligarch chum called Timur Kulibayev use a firm..

registered in the British Virgin Islands buy a home from (that man again!) Prince Andrew: his Windsor mansion Sunninghill Park, which oddly went for £15 million, some £3 million over the asking price.

Coverage of the episode had noted that Kulibayev was the son-in-law of the...

aforementioned despot Nazarbayev,who ruled Kazakhstan for more than 2 decades,turning it into one of the world's most corrupt kleptocracies.

Rakishev,for his part,is married to the daughter of a former mayor of the country's capital city(recently re-named 'Nursultan,'after the..

elderly despot),who later served as its Defence Minister & Deputy Prime Minister. All in all it was an intriguing nexus.
Fast forward to 2012 & Rakishev had just joined Forbes magazine's top-15 list of Kazakhstan's'most influential'tycoons,with estimated assets of some $332M...

Like many an oligarch in possession of a huge fortune,Rakishev was now looking for a safe place to park it,so had come to America in search of new places to invest his hard-earned roubles.
Sadly, things hadn't gone entirely smoothly. For in the highly-regulated world of Western..

capitalism,Rakishev discovered that blue-chip investment partners were often reluctant to take his cash.
To blame?The fact that no one was entirely sure where his wealth actually came from.

For example,the leaked emails obtained by the Mail show that the International Finance...

Corporation,a highly respectable sister organisation of the World Bank,held preliminary talks with Rakishev about a business collaboration before deciding to pull out.
I can reveal that the IFC then politely informed the oligarch that it 'cannot invest with him'because its'very..

deep due diligence processes' had established that he had some 'connections' involving the 'president's family' that 'are a liability to us'

Seemingly outraged,Rakishev responded that he would ensure that the organisation'never works in Kazakhstan with anyone'

The United States

Department of Justice then took an interest in Rakishev. It soon dragged him into an investigation of potential breaches the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act related to 'an investment in the oil & gas industry in Kazakhstan'.

Though Rakishev immediately denied all wrongdoing & no..

charges were ever filed,in Sept. 2013 he decided to hire a notoriously expensive U.S. law firm called Greenberg Traurig to deal with incoming fire related to the probe.

It seems that 2 attorneys who led a team working the Kazakh's case,John Pappalardo & Stanford Saunders,charged

him in the region of $1,000 & $700 per hr respectively.
It was,doubtless,a very annoying(& expensive)business;not to mention highly frustrating for a man who had perhaps grown used to getting his own way. Which is perhaps what persuaded him to take meetings with Hunter Biden, a..

member of one of America's most powerful political dynasties.

In May 2012,he was emailed by Hunter's business partner Devon Archer,a lawyer & former Abercrombie & Fitch model.'Can you have dinner with me,Hunter Biden, Alex[Forbes Kerry]team on Wednesday next week in NYC?I want..

to let Hunter know when he should come up from DC to see you on Wed. Looking forward to seeing you!'

Rakishev replied:'Hi Devon! I would be happy to have a dinner with you & all our friends!Thank you very much for invitations!Take care my brother!'

By July, Hunter had travelled

to Astana to discuss business opportunities.'I wanted to check in with you & see what our next steps are to follow up on our visit to Kazakhstan'he wrote in an email to Rakishev sent shortly afterwards. 'Let me know if you need anything from me.'
3 months later,Biden was helping

Rakishev hold discussions about investing in Prospect Global Resources,a potash mining firm based in eastern Arizona.

Although the emails the Mail has seen show that the talks eventually broke down,he remained on friendly terms:'I wanted to reach back out to you & continue our..

conversations'Hunter wrote to Kulibayev on Nov 25,2012.'I understand you & Timur evaluated PGRX but it was not a good fit at this time. Thank you for taking a look at it & for the quick feedback as well. Let me know when you'd like to connect.'
The duo remained in close contact

throughout the following year,discussing a range of business ventures.

Then,in late Oct 2013,Biden's partner Archer arranged a conference call between Rakishev & the aforementioned Alex Forbes Kerry, who was by then attempting to raise cash to launch a film production firm...

Immediately after the call that Dec, Rakishev emailed with happy news: 'Thank you my brother from another mother! Thanks you very much my brother! We decided to invest 1 mln[million]! Give them my email!'
Ms Forbes Kerry, who has never publicly acknowledged her debt to Rakishev..

finalised the deal in Jan 2014. The following month,she & Biden met Rakishev for dinner in DC.

'It was a pleasure to meet you with Devon & Hunter the other day'she told him by email afterwards.'I want to thank you for the beautiful watch! I am sorry I didn't open it at the table

I misunderstood & thought it was a baby present so I only opened it when I was at home. It is absolutely beautiful & you are so generous..Please come to New York soon & bring your family. We will host you & your team.'

Rakishev responded that he intended to take up that offer in

Sept.'Let's be in touch!'he wrote.

Sadly,at the time of this happy exchange,Biden's marriage was in the process of breaking down. Things culminated in a spectacularly hostile divorce in which his wife Kathleen claimed he had spent 'extravagantly on his own interests (including..

drugs,alcohol,prostitutes,strip clubs & gifts for women with whom he has sexual relations),while leaving the family with no money to pay legitimate bills.'
In 2017 it was revealed that he was dating Hallie Olivere,the widow of his brother,Beau Biden,a US politician who died from

a brain tumour in 2015. The pair separated a few months later.

Earlier this year,Hunter was meanwhile sued for child support by a former stripper,Lunden Alexis Roberts who successfully claimed he was father of her child. He recently married a 2nd time to film-maker Melissa Cohen

By then,Hunter was of course the subject of a spectacular political controversy. This stemmed from his decision in 2014 to accept a $50,000-a-mo. job on the board of Burisma,a Ukranian gas & oil company.

The role,for which Hunter had no obvious qualifications(in an industry he'd

never worked in),came at a time when his father Joe was touring the region as Obama's VP,seeking to shore up support for Ukraine's gov't following Russia's annexation of the Crimea
Via Joe,the White House was not only lobbying Ukraine to become more energy independent,exporting..

oil & gas to the West,but also calling for its gov't to do more to root out corruption.

In particular,the U.S. & its allies were calling for the dismissal of the country's top prosecutor who was,at the time,carrying out an investigation into alleged malfeasance at Burisma...

All of which meant that the VP of America appeared to be using his position to endorse policies that would generate huge profits for a company that had suddenly decided to hire his own son as a director.

As The Guardian newspaper at the time put it:'Putin's propaganda people can

take a long weekend. Their work is being done for them!'
This week's emails leaked to the NYPost suggest in return for his fat salary,Hunter in 2015 may have attempted to arrange for a senior Burisma executive,Vadym Pozharskyi'spend some time together'with Joe in Washington DC...

It remains unclear whether any such meeting occurred. Indeed,Biden's campaign,while not disputing the authenticity of the emails,this week issued a carefully-worded statement insisting that'no meeting,as alleged by the NYPost,ever took place'.

Be that as it may,Donald Trump long

ago developed something of an obsession with this affair.
Last year,it emerged he'd allegedly threatened to withdraw U.S. support for Ukraine unless the country's gov't agreed to investigate Hunter Biden's links to Burisma.
In Wa,this then triggered an eventually unsuccessful...

attempt to impeach Trump for misusing presidential powers by allegedly soliciting the interference of a foreign government to aid his re-election. By way of response, Republicans in the U.S. Senate commissioned a highly critical report into business affairs...