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US probe found cocaine on Hunter Biden's gun holster in 2023

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: ABC News
  • 17 Jan 2024 16:59
2 Min Read

An FBI lab has identified the substance on young Biden's brown leather case as cocaine.

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  • Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden's son, center, accompanied by his attorney Abbe Lowell, right, at a House Oversight Committee hearing as Republicans are taking the first step toward holding him in contempt of Congress, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024(AP)
    Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden's son, center, accompanied by his attorney Abbe Lowell, right, at a House Oversight Committee hearing as Republicans are taking the first step toward holding him in contempt of Congress, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024 (AP)

US investigators found last year cocaine residue on Hunter Biden's gun pouch last year, thereby prompting federal prosecutors to oppose his requests to lift the illegal gun possession charges against him, ABC News reported today, citing prosecutors. 

The broadcaster quoted the prosecutors who said that the strength of the evidence against Hunter Biden is "overwhelming" and then elaborated that "investigators literally found drugs on the pouch where the defendant had kept his gun." The substance removed from his brown leather case was identified by an FBI lab as cocaine.  

Yesterday, the prosecutors asked a judge to turn down Hunter Biden's requests to dismiss his gun charges, according to the broadcaster. 

Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to three felony counts coming from his purchase of a 38-caliber Colt Cobra revolver in 2018 when, according to him, he was seriously addicted to narcotics.

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In September, the younger Biden was formally charged with offenses connected to the alleged unlawful possession of a firearm, after a prior plea agreement fell apart during the summer.

He is charged with two counts of making false statements for claiming on forms required for the gun purchase that he was not using drugs illegally at the time.

US President Joe Biden's son also faces a third charge, based on the same statements, that he illegally possessed the gun -- which he had for only 11 days in October 2018 -- before he got rid of it.

In September last year, he filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), claiming that the agency unlawfully divulged his tax information and failed to protect his confidential records.

In June, US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene alleged that Burisma, a Ukrainian oil industry holding firm, allegedly paid then-US Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden a total of $10 million to help halt an investigation into the company by former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.

The younger Biden is notorious for his involvement in numerous scandals, including substance abuse and high-level corruption. 

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