Paging the FBI: You Might Want to Check This Info on Hunter Biden
By Nick Arama | 9:00 PM on October 17, 2022
We’ve reported previously about the $3.5 million that the firm, Rosemont Seneca Thornton, got from Yelena Baturina, the widow of the former Moscow mayor, as a “consultancy fee.” Rosemont Seneca Thornton is a consortium formed between Hunter’s investment company, Rosemont Seneca, and the Boston-based Thornton Group according to the NY Post.
The 2014 transfer was later scrutinized in a 2020 report commissioned by Senate Republicans probing Hunter’s ties to Ukraine after Baturina’s transfers were flagged in suspicious activity reports filed by banks to the US Treasury Department.
Hunter’s lawyer, George Mesires, denied Biden’s son profited from that transaction, telling CNN at the time: “Hunter Biden had no interest in and was not a co-founder of Rosemont Seneca Thornton, so the claim that he was paid $3.5 million is false.”
It’s not clear where the $3.5 million went. The Senate report said the company was co-founded by Hunter Biden.
Now there are new emails detailing that there was much more involved. Namely, a $40 million investment in Hunter’s company, Rosemont Realty. Baturina’s brother, Viktor Baturin said it was “a payment to enter the American market.”
In 2012 Hunter’s firm had a $69.7million plan to invest in 2.15million sq ft of office space in seven US cities.
Documents outlining the plan said the money came from a mix of investors, including $40million from Inteco Management AG, a Swiss company owned by Baturina.
The Inteco group is a plastics and construction behemoth that made Baturina the richest woman in Russia at the time. She has a current net worth of $1.4billion according to Forbes.
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