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WASHINGTON (SBG) — A witness interviewed by the FBI as part of a year-long criminal investigation into the overseas business dealings of Hunter Biden said this week that the bureau's agents focused their questions, in part, on the work that the son of the Democratic presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, performed for a Ukrainian company while his father was handling Ukraine policy for the Obama administration.
In an exclusive interview with Sinclair on Thursday, Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, said he was interviewed for some five hours, by up to six FBI agents at a time, at a bureau office in Washington on October 23. The federal agents, Bobulinski said, listed him as a "material witness" in an ongoing investigation, told him they will require additional questioning, and extracted the data from three cell phones that he made available.
Bobulinski has said the devices contain emails, corporate documents, WhatsApp chats and other digital evidence of his tenure as an executive at SinoHawk, a venture co-founded by Hunter Biden to do business with the Chinese energy giant, CEFC. But Bobulinski's account of his FBI interview suggests the bureau is also pursuing investigative leads that extend beyond sinoHawk's China venture to include Hunter Biden's work in Ukraine.
"I can assure you that the agents in that room, when we walked through the text messages where Hunter Biden outlines he's on the back of Mykola the founder of Burisma's yacht, in Monaco, that they were at full attention, taking extensive notes and asked multiple questions," Bobulinski told Sinclair in a satellite interview from Los Angeles.
Mykola Zlochevsky is the founder of the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, identified in a recent Senate Homeland Security Committee report entitled "Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption," as a natural gas company that paid the younger Biden approximately $83,000 a month to sit on its board while the elder Biden oversaw U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine. The impeachment proceedings against President Trump in late 2019 and early this year focused on his requests that the Ukrainian government announce investigations in Hunter Biden's work for Burisma.
Separately, Sinclair confirmed this week from an official at the Department of Justice that the FBI in 2019 opened a criminal investigation of Hunter Biden and his associates, focused on money-laundering allegations, that remains open and active.