On May 12, 2014, Vadim Pozharskyi wrote Hunter Biden and Devon Archer from a Ukrainian address. Subject: “urgent issue.” Copies of the email have been published by Fox News, the New York Post, and in PDFs circulated with later congressional work. The words below are from those published copies.
We urgently need your advice on how you could use your influence to convey a message / signal, etc .to stop what we consider to be politically motivated actionsVadim Pozharskyi to Hunter Biden and Devon Archer, May 12, 2014, as published. Closing signature on the same message: Vadym Pozharskyi.
The longer block, as those copies read, says Burisma had information that “one or more pretrial proceedings were initiated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs” against Burisma companies, and that the ministry had asked Ukraine’s ecology ministry and geological survey for license documents “since 2006.” He wrote that “representatives of new authorities” had approached “N. Z.” — in the reporting, Mykola Zlochevsky — “unofficially with the aim to obtain cash.” He listed Burisma as a private gas producer and named ArcelorMittal Ukraine as a client.
Hunter Biden had just been announced on Burisma’s board. Oversight’s August 9, 2023 bank-records memorandum dates Hunter’s board role to April/May 2014, after a Lake Como meeting with Pozharskyi and Zlochevsky. Archer later testified to that sequence.
The email is Pozharskyi asking two new American board members to use influence. It is not a U.S. charging document. It is not a finding that Joe Biden received the message or acted on it.