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Newly-unredacted IRS and FBI search warrants tied to the federal
investigation into Hunter Biden provide new details on the information
that investigators had in their possession about President Joe Biden’s
son’s business deals linked to Ukraine, China and elsewhere.

The multiple search warrant applications were released, with only some redactions remaining, late Tuesday following an agreement between Hunter Biden’s legal team and the Justice Department.

The search warrants detail the knowledge that federal investigators had
years ago related to lucrative payments Hunter Biden had received from Ukrainian gas giant Burisma, since-defunct Chinese energy conglomerate
CEFC, Romanian businessmen, and more – sometimes including when Joe Biden
was still vice president.

“The government has conferred with subject-matter experts within the
Department of Justice and counsel for Mr. Biden. The parties agree the
search warrant applications and affidavits at issue may be unsealed with limited redactions,” Shannon Hanson, the acting U.S. attorney for
Delaware, said in a Tuesday court filing. She added that “the government proposes, and counsel for Mr. Biden does not object to, limited redactions
to protect specific privacy and grand jury secrecy interests.”

The two IRS whistleblowers who shed light on what they considered failures
to properly investigate Hunter Biden – and who were allegedly retaliated against as a result – received promotions from the Trump administration in March. IRS supervisory special agent Gary Shapley and IRS special agent
Joseph Ziegler are now serving as senior advisers to Treasury Secretary
Scott Bessent.

Shapley was also reportedly selected to be the acting IRS Commissioner
last week, prior to him reportedly being replaced in that role shortly thereafter.

The whistle-blowers were harshly critical of then-special counsel David
Weiss’s handling of the Hunter Biden investigation, arguing he had slow-
walked the case. Shapley had also told congressional investigators in 2023
that Hanson was a key part of Weiss’s team and that she was present at a
key meeting where Weiss said he was limited in his criminal charging
authority.

Ziegler himself filed the August 2019 search warrant application for
Hunter Biden’s Apple accounts, the new documents reveal. The application
was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware and was approved by a judge.

The application said that, in 2014, Hunter Biden began receiving roughly $83,333.33 per month from Burisma. The payments were sent to an account
held by Rosemont Seneca Bohai (RSB) – a partnership in which Devon Archer
held a 99% interest – and the RSB account at Morgan Stanley would receive
the payments from a Burisma account, then send them to accounts held by
Hunter Biden.

The IRS agent’s application said that, in 2014, $1,538,505 was sent from Burisma to the RSB account, then the RSB account sent $315,000 to Hunter Biden’s accounts.

Ziegler wrote that, in 2015, $83,333.33 per month was sent from Burisma to
an RSB Stanley Morgan account and an RSB Bank of New York Mellon account, totaling $1,941,131 in payments. The memo line for payments was
“consulting services” and “Monthly Director Fee” – with the RSB account
then sending $386,979 to Hunter Biden’s accounts.

The IRS agent said that in 2016 Burisma accounts began sending $83,333.33
in monthly payments to Hunter Biden’s company – Owasco – where the
payments were received in a Wells Fargo account. That year, Hunter Biden received nine payments of $833,333.33 from Burisma and three additional payments of $83,731, $84,922, and $83,293 – for a total of $1,002,017.

Ziegler wrote that in 2016, the amount of $551,005 was also sent from a
Bank of America account in the name of Robinson Walker LLC to Hunter
Biden’s Owasco Wells Fargo account.

Ziegler said the money appeared to originate as $2,213,546 from Bladon Enterprises Limited (owned by Romanian businessman Gabriel Popoviciu) with
the money then divided up among Hunter Biden, business associate Rob
Walker and an account held in Abu Dhabi in the name of European Energy and Infrastructure. The foreign company was associated with James Gilliar, who
was also a Hunter Biden business partner and the author of the infamous
“Big Guy” email.

The IRS agent said that in 2017 Burisma sent Hunter Biden’s Owasco account $630,556. Ziegler wrote that the Owasco Wells Fargo account also received $2,761,959 in other payments, including $1,445,387 held in the name of
Hudson West III at Cathay Bank.

Ziegler also said that CEFC official Gongwen Dong originally owned Hudson
West III, with Gongwen also reportedly the director of the U.S.-based CEFC Infrastructure. Ziegler said that in August 2017 DBS Bank Hong Kong
Limited funded a $5 million loan into the Hudson West III account and
wrote that Cathay Bank said that at some point ownership of the Hudson
West III account transferred from Dong to companies belonging to Hunter
Biden and his Chinese-American business associate Mervyn Yan.

Ziegler also wrote that Hunter Biden received $100,000 from CEFC Infrastructure.

Additionally, Hunter Biden’s Owasco account received $666,572 from an LLC called Skaneatles, with Ziegler saying that Hunter Biden was a 75% owner
of the LLC at the time, while business partner Eric Schwerin was a 25%
owner.

President Biden’s son also received another $550,000 from Robinson Walker
that year.

The IRS agent said that in 2018 there were $491,939 in payments made from Burisma to Hunter Biden’s Owasco.

The Owasco Wells Fargo account also received $2,731,494 in other payments, Ziegler said, including $2,187,494 from the Hudson West III Cathay Bank account.

The IRS agent detailed another $544,000 bank transfer “made possible by” a
$1 million wire received from Hudson West III on March 22, 2018. Ziegler
said the memo line for the payment was “Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping
Representation” and that Hunter Biden “never entered an appearance on
behalf of Ho in the criminal action.”

Hunter Biden and his associated businesses are also believed to have
received at least $5 million in payments from Chinese energy conglomerate
CEFC in 2017 and 2018, and Ye deputy Patrick Ho also agreed to pay Hunter
Biden a $1 million retainer. Hunter referred to Ho as “the f***ing spy
chief of China” in a May 11, 2018, voice recording.

Ho was sentenced to three years in prison in March 2019 for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He was deported to Hong Kong in June 2021
after serving his sentence.

In seeking access to Hunter Biden’s Apple account, Ziegler said that

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