‘Missing’ Biden family corruption probe witness Gal Luft speaks out, living as fugitive in undisclosed location
Gal Luft, the “lacking” witness within the Home Oversight Committee’s Biden household corruption investigation, has advised The Put up he’s alive and dwelling as a fugitive in an undisclosed location.
The previous Israeli Protection Drive colonel vanished from Cyprus final month whereas on bail awaiting extradition to the US on seven prices.
He denies the allegations, which embody 5 prices regarding the Arms Export Management Act of conspiring to promote Chinese language merchandise to the United rab Emirates, Kenya and Libya, in addition to a violation of the Overseas Brokers Registration Act, and of creating a false assertion.
Luft claims he was pressured to skip bail as a result of he’s the sufferer of a political persecution by the US to guard Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and brother Jim.
“The probabilities of me getting a good trial in Washington are nearly zero,” he mentioned in a name from an undisclosed international nation, explaining why he skipped bail. “I needed to do what I needed to do.”
He is not going to say how he escaped Cyprus as a result of “I don’t need to get individuals in bother.”
His automotive was discovered by police deserted close to the airport.
“I used to be charged for a thought crime,” he says of the gun-running allegations, which date from e mail correspondence 5 years in the past. “I used to be requested by a bona fide arms vendor, an Israeli buddy, to inquire with an organization I knew if they’d an merchandise and what could be the worth of an merchandise. That is the place the conspiracy ended. No follow-up, no cash, no brokering exercise.”
He sees sinister intent within the date of the extradition order, Nov. 1, 2022, seven days earlier than the midterm elections when the Republicans have been anticipated to win management of the Home and begin investigating allegations of Biden household international affect peddling.
Home Oversight investigators have been getting ready to interview him earlier than he disappeared.
“When it was clear the Republicans are going to win the Home or the Senate, swiftly comes [GOP Rep. James] Comer and [GOP Rep. Jim] Jordan and the sport is altering. There will probably be questions and subpoenas and investigations [so] they [the administration] should discredit me. I by no means considered coming ahead. Via 2020 I sat quiet like a fish . . .
“I didn’t need to get caught up on this recreation, however after they arrested me I had no alternative however to blow it up.”
Luft attracted the eye of Home investigators on Feb. 18 when a tweet appeared on his timeline after he was detained on the Cyprus airport.
“I’ve been arrested in Cyprus on a politically motivated extradition request by the US . . . claiming I’m an arms vendor . . . I’ve by no means been an arms vendor.
“DOJ is attempting to bury me to guard Joe, Jim and Hunter Biden.”
Data on Hunter cost
In March 2019, Luft met with 4 FBI officers and two DOJ prosecutors on the US Embassy in Brussels to offer info that Chinese language state-controlled vitality firm CEFC had paid $100,000 a month to Hunter Biden and $65,000 to his uncle Jim, in alternate for his or her FBI connections and use of the Biden title to advertise China’s Belt and Street Initiative all over the world.
Luft, who had a enterprise relationship with a nonprofit assume tank related to CEFC, additionally advised the FBI that Hunter had an FBI mole named “One Eye” who had tipped off his CEFC enterprise companions Patrick Ho and Ye Jianming that they have been underneath investigation; he mentioned that CEFC officers and one different individual had been named in a sealed indictment.
Ye believed “the FBI have been following him when he took walks in Central Park,” says Luft.
Luft was nervous he was on the indictment as a result of Ho advised him it named a “Jew.”
Quickly after the tip-off from One Eye, Ye provided Hunter $1 million to be his “personal counsel” and flew to China, leaving his spouse, daughter, son, mom and nanny in his $50 million Central Park West penthouse.
He was detained in Shanghai three months later and disappeared.
Ho advised Luft that Hunter and Jim Biden flew to Hong Kong within the fall of 2017 to satisfy him.
“They have been behaving very suspiciously and altering telephones,” says Luft. “Ye mentioned ship 1,000,000 {dollars} and people guys will deal with you.”
The one proof on Hunter’s laptop computer that he flew to Hong Kong in that interval is an e mail receipt for a one-way top quality flight from Dulles Airport to Hong Kong on Aug. 25, 2017, with IFlyFirstClass.com.
In emails with the journey firm a number of days later, Hunter requested a return flight Sept. 8, 2017, from Koh Samui in Thailand to Baltimore-Washington Airport.
In Luft’s view, Ho was a “naïve . . . patsy” who believed Ye’s assurances that he wouldn’t be arrested if he returned to the US.
On Nov. 18, 2017, Ho flew again to the US and was arrested by the FBI on bribery and money-laundering prices.
Ho was convicted and sentenced March 25, 2019, to 3 years in jail, after which he was deported.
Throughout Ho’s trial, claims Luft, prosecutors eliminated all reference to the Bidens from emails between Ho and Hunter affiliate Vuk Jeremic, who was a CEFC advisory board member, a former Serbian international minister and ex-president of the UN Nations Common Meeting.
‘Redaction’ dispute
A courtroom transcript exhibits a dispute between Ho protection lawyer Edward Kim and prosecutor Dan Richenthal over whether or not to redact from an e mail the title of one of many “distinguished and highly effective mates” whom Ho requested Jeremic to ask to a dinner or lunch in Washington, DC, on Dec. 6, 2015.
“The title of that particular person just isn’t related and will introduce a political dimension to this case that we don’t assume is value coping with” Richenthal advised the choose, who agreed to the redaction.
There is no such thing as a proof the lunch or dinner took place however a calendar entry on Hunter’s laptop computer exhibits that he had a gathering on Dec. 7, 2015, with “CEFC Chairman Ye Jienmaing [sic] and [CEFC consultant] Scott OH” scheduled.
After Ho was convicted, Luft contacted the Southern District of New York US Legal professional’s Workplace from Israel to supply a voluntary interview or “proffer” assembly.
He says DOJ officers settled on Brussels as impartial territory.
Luft has proven The Put up a letter arranging the Brussels “proffer” assembly, signed March 25, 2019, by Geoffrey Berman, then the US legal professional for the Southern District of New York, whose brokers had arrested Ho the earlier yr.
“We’re writing to advise you that the US Legal professional’s Workplace for the SDNY is not going to arrest or trigger to be arrested your shopper, Gal Luft, through the time that he’s in Belgium between roughly Tuesday, March 26, 2019 and Monday, April 1, 2019, in connection together with his attendance at conferences with this workplace on March 28 and 29, 2019,” writes Berman to Luft lawyer Robert Henoch.
Luft says the 2 assistant US attorneys who interviewed him over 18 hours in Brussels have been a part of the workforce that had prosecuted Ho: Richenthal and Catherine Ghosh, whose names additionally appeared on his Cypress extradition order. Additionally current in Brussels, he says, have been 4 FBI brokers, not less than two from the Nationwide Safety Department at FBI Headquarters and one from the Baltimore subject workplace, which has been concerned within the Hunter Biden investigation run by Delaware US Legal professional David Weiss since 2018.
Luft advised them about CEFC funds to Hunter and Jim Biden, and that Biden household affiliate Rob Walker was concerned in distributing funds, a truth later corroborated by subpoenaed financial institution data launched by the Home Oversight Committee displaying Walker funneling greater than $1 million from China to not less than three of President Biden’s kinfolk.
Luft claims all the things he advised US officers was “corroborated” 9 months later, when the FBI subpoenaed Hunter’s laptop computer from a Delaware pc restore store the place he had deserted it.
“They have been sitting on all the knowledge. No new info as wanted after they’d the laptop computer plus my proffer but they wasted one other yr and did nothing so . . . now there’s a man who can make clear the cover-up and so they arrest him.”
Lower than 4 weeks after the Brussels assembly, Joe Biden introduced he was operating for president.
Regardless of the bombshell allegations Luft made in Brussels, he by no means heard from the FBI or prosecutors once more till he was arrested in Cyprus.
The allegations in opposition to Luft are critical and ought to be absolutely investigated, however so, too, are his allegations of a cover-up.
