Just six weeks before the US elections, a report issued by two Republican-led Senate committees on Wednesday claimed that US presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s work at a Ukraine energy firm while his father was the vice president in the Barack Obama administration created a conflict of interest.
The report examines Hunter’s business dealings in Ukraine, where he held a paid seat on the board of gas company Burisma claiming that he was engaged in numerous financial transactions with Chinese nationals having strong connections with the Chinese government.
These Chinese nationals included Ye Jianming, founder of CEFC China Energy Co. Ltd (CEFC) and chairman of the board for its subsidiary, the China Energy Fund Committee (CE Fund). They also included Gongwen Dong, who was Ye Jianming’s associate and purportedly looked after the execution of transactions for…