Israeli academic Dr. Gal Luft, the so-called “missing witness” in the Biden corruption investigation, has detailed his bribery claims against the president’s family in a remarkable video shot while he was on the run in an unidentified location.
The fugitive former Israeli army officer claims in the 14-minute recording, obtained exclusively by The Post, that he was detained in Cyprus in order to prevent him from testifying before the House Oversight Committee that the Biden family received donations from people with connections to Chinese military intelligence and that they had an FBI informant who shared sensitive information with their donors from the China-controlled energy company CEFC.
In a private meeting in Brussels in March 2019, the self-described fall guy claims to have given six FBI and Department of Justice officials the damaging information, but claims that it was covered up.
“I, who volunteered to inform the US government about a potential security breach and about compromising information about a man vying to be the next president, am now being hunted by the very same people who I informed — and may have to live on the run for the rest of my life on the run …”
“I’m not a Republican. I’m not a Democrat. I have no political motive or agenda … I did it out of deep concern that if the Bidens were to come to power, the country would be facing the same traumatic Russia collusion scandal — only this time with China. Sadly, because of the DOJ’s cover-up, this is exactly what happened …”
“I warned the government about potential risk to the integrity of the 2020 elections … Ask yourself, who is the real criminal in this story?”
Republican James Comer, the head of the House Oversight Committee, who was going to interview Luft before he vanished, claims that despite his exile, the Israeli is still a “potential witness” in the investigation into the Biden family.
Although it is unclear if Luft will be the one to unseat the Bidens, he is not giving up without a fight.
He is committed to presenting his view of the truth to the American people.
Luft, 57, claims he is innocent of the charges that he conspired to sell Chinese weaponry to Kenya, Libya, and the UAE, that he broke the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), and that he made a false statement. He refers to himself as “patient zero of the Biden family investigation.”
In April, he claims, he was compelled to forego bail in Cyprus while detained there for extradition “because I did not believe I will receive a fair trial in a New York court.”
He is now requesting that the government make the evidence against him public and share the minutes of the Brussels meeting.
“Why did the DOJ choose to unseal the indictment on Nov. 1, 2022, the very same week of the midterm elections?” he asks.
“Could this have anything to do with the fear that once Republicans gain control over Congress and begin to investigate, [the DOJ] cover-up would be on full display?”
Luft claims that he informed the DOJ and the FBI in Brussels that Joe Biden had attended a meeting at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, DC, with his son Hunter and representatives from CEFC not long after his vice presidential term came to an end.
Biden is criticized by Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis for “blow[ing] it on a lot of fronts” after cocaine was found in the White House.
According to recent evidence given before Congress, Luft’s allegation of the former vice president’s attendance at that meeting was confirmed 21 months later when the FBI spoke with another participant, Biden family acquaintance Rob Walker.
In the interview in Brussels, Luft revealed that Walker was the conduit through which CEFC paid Hunter $100,000 per month and his uncle Jim Biden $65,000 per month in exchange for their FBI connections and the use of the Biden name to promote China’s Belt and Road Initiative globally.
Walker has received a letter from the Oversight Committee demanding that he appear in person for questioning on his part in transferring more than $1 million from China to at least three of President Biden’s family.
He claims that six individuals, including two prosecutors from the Southern District of New York named Daniel Richenthal and Catherine Ghosh, were sent by the DOJ to see Luft in Brussels.
One FBI representative who later signed a subpoena to obtain Hunter’s abandoned laptop from a Delaware repair shop was Special Agent Joshua Wilson of the Baltimore field office.
“Why did the government dispatch to Europe so many people?” asks Luft.
“They knew very well I’m a credible witness and I have insider knowledge about the group and individuals that enriched the Biden family.
“Over an intensive two-day meeting, I shared my information about the Biden family’s financial transactions with CEFC, including specific dollar figures. I also provided the name of Rob Walker, who later became known as Hunter Biden’s bagman.”
Additionally, he disclosed to the DOJ and the FBI in Brussels that Hunter had a “One Eye” FBI informant who had alerted his CEFC allies, Chairman Ye Jianming and Dr. Patrick Ho, to the fact that they were under investigation.
In Washington, DC, Luft is well-connected in the intelligence community. He formerly served as the director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, which had as advisors the former CIA director James Woolsey and the former national security adviser Robert McFarlane.
As a result of Luft’s relationship with a nonprofit think tank connected to the Chinese corporation at the time, he discovered in 2017 that Hunter and Jim Biden were receiving payments from CEFC.
Hunter Biden, whom Ho had paid $1 million as a “legal retainer,” was the first person he attempted to phone after being detained in New York in 2017 on bribery accusations.
However, according to Luft, prosecutors prevented Ho from bringing up the Bidens during his trial.
Ho “paid Hunter Biden a million dollars for God-knows-what [but] was not allowed to mention the word Biden before the jury,” according to Luft.
“Prosecutor Daniel Richenthal told the judge at the time that mentioning the name Biden would ‘add a political dimension’ to the case, and the judge agreed. Which means if I was brought before a New York court, I would not be allowed to utter the word Brussels or Biden.”
By saying, “I was asked by a bona fide arms dealer, an Israeli friend, to inquire with a company I knew if they had an item and what would be the price of an item,” Luft refutes the accusation that he is an arms dealer. The conspiracy came to an end here. There was no follow-up, no payment, and no brokering.
Additionally, he is accused under the FARA of representing CEFC as an unregistered foreign agent.
“The DOJ says I caused a payment of $6,000 a month to former CIA Director James Woolsey in order to put his name on an article I had ghostwritten for the China Daily newspaper … Woolsey had been an adviser to my think tank since 2002 and nothing in the article represented Chinese interests.”
“Why am I being indicted … for ghostwriting an innocuous article for which I received no payment, let alone from a foreign government, when the mother of all FARA cases, the Bidens’ systemic influence-peddling on behalf of foreign governments, for which they raked [in] millions, goes unpunished?”
In October 2020, a few days after The Post’s shocking disclosures from Hunter’s laptop, Luft’s story receives an odd addition.
In order to meet with acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue for the Trump administration in Washington and reiterate the accusations he had made in Brussels, Luft sent his lawyer, Robert Henoch.
Additionally, Donoghue was tasked by Attorney General Bill Barr in February 2020 with coordinating all federal inquiries into Joe Biden’s alleged involvement in corruption in the Ukraine.
According to evidence given before Congress, Donoghue had instructed the Delaware US attorney to halt the criminal investigation into Hunter on September 4 without Luft’s knowledge in order to prevent leaks in the two months prior to the election.
According to Luft, who provided The Post the emails exchanged between his lawyer and the senior official, Donoghue agreed to meet Henoch at a Starbucks close to the DOJ’s headquarters and communicated with him privately.
“The story is about corruption at the very highest levels of government/politics and I think it can all be corroborated,” Henoch wrote.
The encounter never resulted in anything, but in February of this year, Luft was detained in Cyprus.
