Aleksander Kwasniewski, a former Polish president who’s on the board of the Ukrainian company Burisma, says that Hunter Biden was chosen to join its advisory board because of his name. But that there was no wrongdoing by Burisma while Biden was on board.
was indeed chosen to join its advisory board because of his name. He said that is simply how the world of business works.
“He was a normal member of this group,” he said. “We didn’t ask him — and he never said anything — about his father.” Kwasniewski said requests made to Ukraine’s prosecutor by Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, seeking to obtain comments depicting Burisma as corrupt, created a dangerous situation for the company.
Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky, who had been the minister of natural resources under former President Viktor Yanykovych, ran into trouble after Yanukovych’s 2014 ouster. Prosecutors accused him of abusing his position to embezzle state money.
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