Hunter Biden was working with a Chinese oil company in Kazakhstan that is now under US sanctions and a former Kazakh prime minister now accused of treason to broker a lucrative pipeline deal, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Emails obtained by DailyMail.com show the president's son teamed up with the former Kazakh prime minister Karim Massimov, now facing charges of high treason, to try to pull off a $120million pipeline deal after similar ventures had faced opposition from Western energy firms.
There is no indication Massimov’s charges are connected to Hunter’s pipeline deal.
One of Hunter's proposed Kazakh energy deals involved the State China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), one of China's biggest oil firms.
The company was sanctioned in 2020 and again last year for its alleged involvement in the Chinese government's 'coercive behavior in the South China Sea'.
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