Journalist confirms GOP Hunter Biden “whistleblower, Gal Luft, has been arrested and charged by Justice Department for arms trafficking, violating U.S. sanctions against Iran..
Prosecutors say that Mr Luft pushed the former government employee, who is not named, to push policies that were favourable to China.
They also allege that he set up meetings between officials of Iran and a Chinese energy company to discuss oil deals, which would violate US sanctions.
They also alleged that Mr Luft “conspired with others and attempted to broker illicit arms transactions with, among others, certain Chinese individuals and entities” by working as a middleman to find both buyers and sellers for “certain weapons and other materials” in violation of the US Arms Control Act.
A “whistleblower” who has repeatedly accused the Bidens of corruption has been charged by the Justice Department with arms trafficking, acting as a foreign agent for China and violating Iran sanctions.
Gal Luft, who is a citizen of both the United States and Israel, is accused of paying a former adviser to Donald Trump on behalf of principals in China in 2016 without registering as a foreign agent.
A Twitter account bearing Luft’s name, with more than 15,000 followers, said in a February 18 tweet that he had been arrested in Cyprus “on a politically motivated extradition request by the US”.
“I’ve never been an arms dealer,” Luft said in the tweet. He did not immediately respond to a direct message sent by Reuters.
Luft was arrested in February in Cyprus on US charges, but fled after being released on bail while awaiting extradition, prosecutors said. He could not immediately be reached for comment.
Luft is co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, which describes itself as a think tank focused on energy, security and economic trends.
The think tank did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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