An ex-FBI informant who is being prosecuted by the Justice Department for fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and a Ukrainian energy company, was in contact with officials associated with Russian intelligence, according to documents filed Tuesday by Special Counsel David C. Weiss.
Federal prosecutors raised the allegations about Alexander Smirnov’s connections to the Russian government in an effort to convince a U.S. District Court judge to deny the former FBI informant bail, according to a Feb. 20 report published the Associated Press.
Smirnov, who holds dual citizenship with the U.S. and Israel, is currently charged with creating a false and fictitious record under 18 U.S.C. §1519 and falsely reporting to the FBI that executives associated with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid the president and his son $5 million each in 2015 or 2016, a violation under U.S.C. 18 §1001.