In an unprecedented worldwide revelation, a seemingly familial and amicable photograph features US Vice President Joseph Biden, his son Hunter Biden, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov, and Kenes Rakishev, a relative and associate of Timur Kulibayev.

Hunter Biden, a board member of the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma, has been at the center of a significant political scandal in Washington due to receiving substantial salary payments from the company while his father held the position of Vice President and was directly involved in Ukrainian policy. This has triggered numerous hearings in the US Congress.

What remains less known is that H. Biden also received payments from KazMunaiGas while serving on the management board of the Kazakh company Burisma Kazakhstan. This joint venture was established in collaboration with the Kazakh state concern and a private Ukrainian company. Although the Burisma Group’s corporate website is currently inaccessible, it is understood that Karim Massimov, during his tenure as the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, facilitated meetings with Burisma leaders in Astana and instructed KazMunaiGaz to form this partnership. The purpose behind such collaborations raises questions about the legal payments made to American politicians and whether it impacted the financial well-being of Kazakh oil workers and their families.

“There’s $145,000 from the son of the former prime minister of Kazakhstan, which is, of course, a highly corrupt country with all sorts of interesting implications.”

Independent Kazakh journalists are willing to collaborate with their American counterparts to investigate this UkrKazakhGate further.