EXCLUSIVE: Leaked emails reveal Hunter Biden's real estate company received a $40MILLION investment from Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, the billionaire widow of corrupt Moscow mayor, who also paid president's son $3.5million consulting fee
Hunter Biden's real estate company received a $40million investment from a Russian oligarch, new emails reveal.
The relationship between the president's son and Yelena Baturina, the billionaire widow of a corrupt Moscow mayor, has already been flagged as alarming by a Senate report after she mysteriously wired $3.5million to a company linked to Hunter.But DailyMail.com can now reveal that Hunter's financial relationship with Baturina was far more extensive, with her firm investing $40million in a real estate venture by Hunter's company Rosemont Realty.
In 2012 Hunter's firm had a $69.7million plan to invest in 2.15million sq ft of office space in seven US cities.
Documents outlining the plan said the money came from a mix of investors, including $40million from Inteco Management AG, a Swiss company owned by Baturina.
The Inteco group is a plastics and construction behemoth that made Baturina the richest woman in Russia at the time. She has a current net worth of $1.4billion according to Forbes.
The documents reveal that Hunter's financial ties to Baturina began years earlier than previously thought – and were much more significant as well.
His dealings with foreign billionaires are currently being scrutinized by federal prosecutors, reportedly investigating potential money laundering, illegal lobbying and alleged tax crimes.
Hunter's dealings with the Russian billionaire first hit headlines in September 2020 when the Senate Homeland Security Committee published a report flagging her unexplained wire transfers to a company linked to the president's son.
On February 14, 2014, Baturina wired $3.5 million in a series of payments to Rosemont Seneca Thornton LLC for 'Consultancy Agreement DD12.02.2014'.
The report said Hunter founded the company a year earlier with his best friend Devon Archer, a former Abercrombie & Fitch model and advisor to John Kerry, now sentenced to a year in prison for fraud.
The transactions were flagged in suspicious activity reports filed to the US Treasury Department.
Baturina has refused to discuss them. But her brother, Viktor Baturin, 63, has told DailyMail.com the money was 'a payment to enter the American market.'
Hunter's lawyer George Mesires previously denied the money went to Hunter.
'Hunter Biden had no interest in and was not a co-founder of Rosemont Seneca Thornton, so the claim that he was paid $3.5 million is false,' he told CNN in September 2020.
In 2015 Baturina set up a US office to oversee her American investments and in 2016 she put $10 million in commercial buildings next to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
But according to the new emails obtained by DailyMail.com, Baturina had already negotiated an investment deal with Rosemont Realty back in 2012 to plow $40million into the purchase of seven office buildings in Texas, Colorado, Alabama, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
The emails were sent to Kenes Rakishev, a Kazakh businessman worth more than $950million, who became friends and business partners with Hunter.
Rakishev was photographed with Hunter and then-Vice President Joe Biden at an infamous meeting at Cafe Milano in Washington DC in 2015.Archer was listed as executive director of Rosemont Realty on the emails and deal documents.
The former Abercrombie & Fitch model is now serving a one-year prison sentence for defrauding a Native American tribe in a complex $60million bond scheme.
Representatives for Hunter and Baturina did not respond to requests for comment.
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