Luft, who accused the Biden family of corruption, has been indicted on charges of acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
"Well, unfortunately, we can't track down the informant," Comer said at the time."We're hopeful that the informant is still there. The whistleblower knows the informant. The whistleblower is very credible."
He was arrested in Cyprus in February in a separate case and is currently a fugitive having fled after being released on bail. Luft sent a tweet at the time suggesting the arrest was motivated by a desire to protect the Bidens. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced the charges against Luft, who is a U.S.-Israeli citizen, on Monday.
"He subverted foreign agent registration laws in the United States to seek to promote Chinese policies by acting through a former high-ranking U.S. Government official; he acted as a broker in deals for dangerous weapons and Iranian oil; and he told multiple lies about his crimes to law enforcement," the statement went on.
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