Joe Biden's son is under tax investigation for his foreign business

Hunter Biden, the son of the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, announced this Wednesday that he has become the subject of a federal investigation in the state of Delaware about his tax obligations. In a statement made public this Wednesday, Hunter Biden has assured that “I take this very seriously and I trust that a professional and objective evaluation will show that I have handled my affairs in a legal and proper manner.” Donald Trump had been accusing the Biden family of being a “criminal enterprise” during the election campaign, focusing on Hunter Biden’s affairs in Ukraine and China coinciding in time with the time when his father and now The winner of the elections was Barack Obama’s vice president, between 2009 and 2017. According to Foxnews citing sources close to the Government, Hunter Biden is treated as a ‘target’ -‘target’-, which means that “there is a high possibility that the person has committed a crime ”. According to CNN, his father would not be involved in this case. The investigations are analyzing various financial movements, studying possible cases of tax crimes and money laundering in businesses carried out abroad, mainly in China. The investigations into Hunter Biden began. in 2018, when William Barr was nominated as the United States Attorney General. Last October the FBI opened a criminal investigation into Biden’s businesses abroad, particularly in China.In the same recent month of October, in the middle of the electoral campaign, the American newspaper The New York Post published an information -amplified by the fact that the social networks Twitter and Facebook censored it totally or partially- in which it was exposed that Hunter Biden had maneuvered to introduce the then Vice President Joe Biden to an executive of the Ukrainian company called Burisma, a gas company that was then being investigated by the Ukrainian attorney general. According to Trump’s environment denounced, Joe Biden would have forced the dismissal of the prosecutor who he was investigating his son’s company through a phone call to the former president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko. Shokin stepped down as attorney general in March 2016, and The New York Post then published an exclusive showing a collection of emails exchanged between Hunter Biden and Vadym Pozharskyi, also a Burisma board member. Among these emails, one highlighted by the Ukrainian executive on April 17, 2015 in which he thanks Hunter Biden for “inviting him to Washington DC and giving me the opportunity to meet your father [Vice President Joe Biden] and spend a time together. It is truly an honor and a pleasure. ”Joe Biden had always denied any direct involvement with his son’s work in Ukraine, and that has now led to his investigation. “I never discussed anything that had to do with Ukraine, we have always kept everything separate,” stressed Biden during the campaign.