Claims that President Biden’s son Hunter helped finance biological laboratories in Ukraine are at least partially true, according to new emails.
Emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop “found that he played a role in helping a California defense contractor analyze killer diseases and bioweapons in Ukraine,” reported The New York Post.
Russia claimed that secret American biological-warfare labs in Ukraine were a reason for the country’s attack on Ukraine.
The commander of the Russian Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Forces said the “financing of such activities by structures close to the current U.S. leadership, in particular the investment fund Rosemont Seneca, which is headed by Hunter Biden”.
Russia’s State Duma speaker, Vyacheslav Volodin, recently said “U.S. President Joe Biden himself is involved in the creation of biolaboratories in Ukraine”.
U.S. intelligence officials claimed the allegations were just war propaganda, adding that Ukraine’s network of biological labs had publicly received funding.
However, emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop “show he helped secure millions of dollars of funding for Metabiota, a Department of Defense contractor specializing in research on pandemic-causing diseases that could be used as bioweapons,” reported The Daily Mail.
Hunter also introduced Metabiota to officials at Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company for which he was board member. An email from a Metabiota official said the company could “assert Ukraine’s cultural and economic independence from Russia”.
According to U.S. government spending records, $23.9 million was awarded to Metabiota in 2014, with $307,091 allocated for “Ukrainian research projects”.
In addition, emails show Hunter Biden bragging to investors that his company organized funding for Metabiota and brought in new customers, including “government agencies”.
The first son is currently under federal investigation for possible tax fraud.