WASHINGTON, May 4 accusations to the son of the President of the United States, Hunter Biden, of violations related to taxes and weapons, the Washington Post writes, citing sources.
«»Prosecutors are moving closer to deciding whether to charge President Biden's son Hunter with tax and gun violations,» the publication says.
These allegations could be the culmination of a four-year investigation promoted by GOP officials as evidence of «corruption in the Biden family.»
According to the interlocutors of the publication, the lawyers of the son of the head of state last week met at the headquarters of the US Department of Justice with Delaware State Attorney David Weiss. Biden's defense called for the charges to be dropped from their client, or «reduced» them.
«Any decision could have a significant impact on President Biden, who has just launched his re-election campaign,» the newspaper notes, highlighting the sensitive nature of the issue.
In October 2022, the publication, citing informed sources, already reported that federal agents investigating Hunter Biden had collected enough evidence to accuse him of tax crimes and perjury related to the purchase of weapons.
Despite the evidence base gathered by the investigation, the decision whether to file charges against Biden Jr. will be made by the Delaware federal prosecutor, sources said.
David Weiss was appointed to his post by the ex-president Donald Trump, who made the investigation into Hunter Biden one of the main topics of his 2020 election campaign.
As The Wall Street Journal previously reported, investigators were interested in whether Joe Biden's son violated tax or other laws, including those that regulate lobbying activities in the interests of foreign governments, in business relations in Ukraine, China, Kazakhstan and other countries.
According to the publication, Hunter Biden received 50 thousand dollars a month for his work on the board of directors of Burisma from 2014 to 2019, which came to the account of Rosemont Seneca Bohai LLC. Most of his work in this capacity came during the years of his father's vice presidency.