The 2020 Senate report revealed that bank accounts linked to Hunter Biden received over $5 million in payments from Henry Zhao, a Chinese business partner, within 10 days of recently- revealed texts where Hunter demanded payment using his proximity to his father, President Joe Biden, as a means of “intimidation.”
According to Breitbart News, Henry Zhao was influential in forming a Chinese investment fund and had deep ties to Chinese intelligence.
In 2017, Zhao worked with Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC Energy, also linked to Chinese military intelligence.
A recently released screenshot from July 30, 2017, of a WhatsApp message from Hunter to Zhao shows Hunter pressuring Zhao for payment using his father’s influence, who was “sitting” in the room.
“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight,” Hunter’s text reads.
“And Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next time and every person he knows and my ability to hold a grudge that you will not regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father,” the text adds.
NEW: The 2020 Senate report shows the Biden business received $5.1M in payments from Henry Zhao within 10 days after Hunter demanded payment on WhatsApp using proximity to his father as a cudgel
“I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”https://t.co/WyTG6nPJQu
— Wendell Husebø (@WendellHusebo) June 24, 2023
Records cited in the Senate GOP investigation show that after 10 days of Hunter’s message, a CEFC subsidiary sent two payments equaling over $5 million to bank accounts linked to Hunter.
According to the records, “On Aug. 4, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment (US) LLC, a subsidiary of Ye Jianming’s CEFC China Energy Company that listed Gongwen Dong as its director, sent Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, a payment for $100,000. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity.”
“On Aug. 8, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III,” the records add.
“These funds may have originated from a loan issued from the account of a company called Northern International Capital Holdings, a Hong Kong-based investment company identified at one time as a “substantial shareholder” in CEFC International Limited along with Ye,” the records continued.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY), through the Biden family’s suspicious activity reports (SARs), discovered in March 2023 that an associate of the Biden family received a $3 million wire transfer from a Chinese energy company, CEFC.
Four Biden family members, Hunter, James, Hallie, and an “unidentified” Biden received a “cut” of $1.3 million from the wire transfer.
In May 2023, Comer revealed that over several years, the Biden family business received $10 million from business dealings in Romania and China. Nine Biden family members, including two of the president’s grandchildren, received vast amounts of money from the family’s foreign business dealings.
