White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki assured on Wednesday that she is not “ familiar ” with the recent Senate report claiming that the son of the President of the United States, Joe Biden, Hunter, would have $ 3.5 million received. (2.9 million euros) by the wife of former Moscow mayor Yurii Luzhkov.
“I am not familiar with that statement. It does not seem to be supported by much evidence. If you have any evidence or details, we would be happy to discuss it further,” Psaki replied to a question from a reporter from The New York Post. during the conference press held at the White House on Wednesday.
The referenced report is part of an investigation conducted by two US Senate committees that said Hunter Biden received $ 3.5 million in February 2014 from Elena Baturina, the late wife of former mayor. Luzhkov, for a consultancy assignment.
These alleged allegations were widely used by former President Donald Trump during the election campaign. These allegations were the subject of one of the most controversial moments of the first debate between the two candidates, with Biden calling the Republican a “clown” for his insistence on the matter.
In mid-October last year, conservative tabloid ‘The New York Post’ released an April 2015 email retrieved from a computer allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden, provided by Trump’s former attorney Rudy Giulani.
In the email, Ukrainian gas company Burisma Group adviser Vadym Pozharskyi thanked Hunter Biden for inviting him to meet his father in Washington while he was vice president in the Barack Obama administration.
Hunter Biden was a director on the Burisma administration from 2014 to 2018, according to documents the company filed in Cyprus, where it is registered, something for which Trump pressured Ukrainian authorities to investigate crimes of alleged corruption.