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US firm that paid indicted FBI informant tied to Trump associates, records reveal
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US firm that paid indicted FBI informant tied to Trump associates, records reveal
An American company that paid the now indicted FBI informant Alexander Smirnov in 2020 is connected to a UK company owned by Trump business associates in Dubai, according to business filings and court documents.
Smirnov is now accused of lying to the FBI about Hunter Biden and his father, President Joe Biden, alleging that they engaged in a bribery scheme with executives at the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Smirnov’s accounts to the FBI, beginning in 2020, that federal prosecutors now say are fabrications, served as a major justification of the House impeachment investigation into the Bidens.
Republican lawmakers have repeatedly touted Smirnov as a reliable informant, and the chairman of the House oversight committee, James Comer, even threatened to hold the FBI director, Christopher Wray, in contempt unless he “handed over” a June 2020 FBI form with Smirnov’s claims to the committee.
Back in 2020, Smirnov was paid $600,000 by a company called Economic Transformation Technologies (ETT), prosecutors said. That same year, Smirnov began lying to the FBI about the Bidens, according to the indictment. There is no suggestion the payment was linked to Smirnov’s alleged fabrications.
ETT’s CEO is the American Christopher Condon, who was also one of three shareholders in ETT Investment Holding Limited in London. Other shareholders in the UK company, now dissolved, included the Pakistani American investor Shahal Khan and Farooq Arjomand, a former chairman and current board member of Damac Properties in Dubai who is also listed as an adviser on ETT’s American website.
Last month, Smirnov was charged with lying to the FBI, and is being held without bail. Prosecutors argued he posed a flight risk because of his contacts with Russian officials in the Middle East and access to millions of dollars.
Smirnov’s indictment alleged that the assertions in a document, known as a 1023, and other statements made to his FBI handler beginning in 2020 and continuing until December 2023, were factually impossible.
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Pandora changed its name to Skylab in 2017, then in 2018 Skylab seemed to split from what is now ETT, according to a lawsuit, when Condon first registered ETT websites and appeared on ETT’s Florida filings. An unnamed former business associate told the Wall Street Journal that the $600,000 payment from ETT to Smirnov was “in exchange for a stake in an Israel-based crypto trading platform, called Bitoftrade, [that] Smirnov was working on launching”. Calls and emails to Condon, Arjomand, Sajwani and Smirnov’s lawyer, and to Trump’s team, were not returned. Khan told the Guardian: “I was on the board for a very short period, [and] there was no connection on my part.” ETT responded after publication saying the company had “no involvement with Alexander Smirnov” and that “his association with ETT was a direct result of a merger with another company, making him a shareholder”. “His introduction to ETT was strictly professional,” the company said, “and any money sent to a corporation called Avalon Group Inc., a Delaware corporation, related to ETT’s investment in a cryptocurrency platform, Bitoftrade”. “This investment, like all ETT’s investments, was made following standard due diligence processes” and was “a straightforward business investment in the technology sector and had no connections to any political figures ... ETT has never had any ties to President Biden or President Trump or their associates, or any political campaigns,” it said, adding that Christopher Condon has never met Biden or Trump or members of their families. Smirnov is scheduled for a jury trial in April, according to court filings. This article was amended on 16 March 2024 to include a response from ETT that was received after publication, and to further emphasise that there is no suggestion the $600,000 payment was linked to Alexander Smirnov’s alleged fabrications. It’s not surprising, but it is now clear: this November’s election will be Donald Trump v Joe Biden – again. As we enter one of the most consequential news cycles of our lifetimes, I wanted to ask if you would consider supporting the Guardian’s journalism. The media will play a critical role in shaping the outcome of this election – and this time, journalists must get it right. There are two important ways the Guardian differs from many organizations in the US media bubble: • First, we are unafraid to say plainly that American democracy is facing a unique historic threat. Instead of obsessing about who’s up and who’s down, our journalists are acutely focused on the real stakes – the fact that fundamental human rights, our democracy and the fate of the planet are all on the line. • Second, we are keenly aware of how the media can be manipulated to promote political agendas. Our election coverage is, in many ways, defined by what we choose not to cover: false scandals drummed up by opposition researchers, lies and misinformation, and “he said-she said” stories without adequate context. The reason we are different is simple: we are an independent global news organization with no billionaire owner or shareholders to please. We are not being pushed by anyone to amp up false scandals for clicks, or cover the election like a reality TV contest. Our reporters are committed to journalistic rigor, factual accuracy and uncovering the truth. The majority of our funding comes from readers like you.
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There is at least one convicted felon who shouldn't expect a pardon from Joe Biden: Alexander Smirnov, the phony FBI informant who lied that he had evidence that Biden and his son Hunter took a $5 million dollar bribe, a lie that MAGA used in Congress to falsely attack the character of Biden. Popok reports.
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