Hunter Biden's investment firm, BHR Partners, did business with a CCP-owned military company that's now sending fighter jet parts to a sanctioned Russian defense conglomerate, thus assisting the Kremlin in its war against Ukraine.
BHR - which counted Hunter as a 10% stakeholder, worked with AVIC automotive - a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China, to buy Michigan-based Henniges Automotive in September of 2015, the Washington Examiner's Jerry Dunleavy reports.
The Wall Street Journal reported in February 2023 that AVIC subsidiary AVIC International Holding Corporation had shipped "$1.2 million worth of parts for Su-35 jet fighters" to sanctioned Russian defense conglomerate Rostec subsidiary Kret on Oct. 24, 2022.
Although a number of Chinese companies have been sanctioned over Russia's war in Ukraine, AVIC is not one of them.
AVIC's provision of Su-35 jet fighter parts to Russia is notable.
Hunter Biden's lawyer claimed in November 2021 that Hunter "No longer holds any interest, directly or indirectly, in either BHR or Skaneateles," an LLC owned by Hunter that held his 10% BHR stake.
Seven AVIC subsidiaries were sanctioned in December 2020 when the U.S. government determined they were "Military end users." Rostec was sanctioned again by the Treasury Department in June 2022 following Russia's further invasion of Ukraine that year, with the U.S. saying the sanctions "Will weaken Russia's ability to continue its aerial assault on Ukraine."
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