The search for a person involved in a bribery case in which Biden and ex-minister Zlochevsky were mentioned was stopped

Former Minister of Environment Nikolai Zlochevsky was accused of providing multimillion-dollar bribes to Joe and Hunter Biden. However, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau canceled his search both in Ukraine and abroad.

This is evidenced by the relevant information in the search database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

According to the relevant parameters, such a person is not wanted. It is unknown when Zlochevsky was removed from the wanted list.

Nikolai Zlochevsky was a people's deputy from the Party of Regions, after which in 2010-2012 he headed the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine, and in 2012-2014 he was deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.

Based on the results of 2020, Zlochevsky’s fortune was estimated at $500 million and was included in the top 20 richest Ukrainians according to Forbes.

Its key asset is the gas production company Burisma, which has dozens of wells throughout the country. In 2014-2019, the son of current US President Joe Biden, Gunter, was on the Burisma supervisory board. Since November 2019, Zlochevsky has been wanted as part of an investigation into the activities of the Burisma company, and in 2020 he got into a scandal with a bribe that was a record for Ukraine in the amount of $6 million, with which they tried to bribe SAPO and NABU to close production.

In 2023, one of the Republican senators released a confidential FBI document with evidence from an anonymous source about a $10 million bribe that Zlochevsky allegedly paid to Joe Biden and his son Gunther. The document claims Zlochevsky said he was forced to pay the Bidens and paid $5 million to “one Biden” and $5 million to “another Biden,” but does not specifically name Joe or Gunter.

Let us remind you that the former Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine during the Yanukovych , Nikolai Zlochevsky, received a fine of 68 thousand hryvnia in a case of bribing law enforcement officers. In addition to the fine, Zlochevsky provided 500 million hryvnia for the Drone Army project. The accused also provided assistance to units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the form of the purchase of equipment for a total amount of more than 160 million hryvnia.

As is known, in 2020, law enforcement officers detained the former head of one of the departments of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, Elena Mazurova, the former first deputy head of the State Tax Service in Kiev, Nikolai Ilyashenko, and one of the leaders of the Burisma group of companies, which is associated with Nikolai Zlochevsky, Andrey Kichu. They were detained for attempting to bribe the leadership of anti-corruption agencies. Officials proposed closing criminal proceedings on suspicion of a former top official (owner of Burisma Holdings, ex-Minister of Ecology Nikolai Zlochevsky).

The “service” was valued at $5 million. USA, another 1 million dollars. The US official of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate took it from above. All these persons, as well as the initiator of the bribery, were brought to justice.