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07/11/2013 S.D.N.Y. & D.D.C. Devon Archer & John Kerry 18 USC §§ 2, 219, 951

Made possible by his relationship with Secretary of State Kerry, Archer illegally back-channeled for
the government of Kazakhstan. Archer bragged to his (and Hunter’s)761 colleague, Bevan762 Cooney,
about his § 951 violations: “I am coordinating the Sec State’s [Kerry’s] call with Foreign Minister
Idrisov763 [sic] today in order for Idrisov [sic] to brief Pres[ident] Nazarbaz [sic]. I am going full Kazak.”

IDRISSOV & Kerry (09/22/2014)

Erlan Abilfayizuly IDRISSOV

Kerry at Nazarbayev University

(11/02/2015)

Bevan Troy Cooney

DOB: 12/06/1972
Former BOP Inmate # 53275-048 Archer & Cooney (08/08/2012)

761 “Cooney … serv[ed] a sentence in federal prison due to his conviction over financial deals he made connected to
Hunter Biden and his other partner Devon Archer.”
See Matthew Boyle, “Hunter Biden’s Flipped Business Partner Provided 26,000 Emails,” Breitbart, October 2020,
archive.ph/jU7tG
762 “Bevan Cooney Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for the Fraudulent Issuance and Sale of More than $60 Million of

Tribal Bonds,” U.S. Department of Justice, July 2019, archive.ph/OIcWt

763 “On December 10, 2014, Kazakhstani Foreign Minister Erlan Idrissov paid an official visit to the United States. During

his visit, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Foreign Minister Idrissov co-chaired the third meeting[.]”
See “Joint Statement of the Third U.S.-Kazakhstan Strategic Partnership Dialogue,” U.S. Department of State, December
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02/05/2014ff D.D.C. Devon Archer 18 USC §§ 2, 951

RAKISHEV was so close with Hunter and Archer that he referred to them in familial terms when he
inquired about their illegal back-channeling: “Brothers[,] how is our meeting with JK [John Kerry]?
Pl[ea]s[e] last push! That will be great! Thanks!” Archer responded calmly: “He [Kerry] is ready to visit
KZ [Kazakhstan]. If we [RAKISHEV and Hunter’s firm] have some business764765 started as planned[,]
I will ensure its [sic] planned soonest.” Well, as luck would have it, “some business” between the
parties began to materialize: CNOOC wanted a chunk of Kazakhstan’s vast oil reserves—and
Burisma was a natural fit, in Archer’s mind, to operate the rigs above those reserves: “If we can
connect the dots here between CNOOC and Burisma[,] we can do only that, forever.” The following
year, Hunter’s dad and Archer’s mentor (Kerry) worked to shut down the U.S.’s Keystone pipeline.766

Joe, Kerry & Obama (11/06/2015)

Conferring before the announcement of the Keystone XL Pipeline cancellation

764 Josh BOSWELL, “Hunter Biden tried to broker a $120million oil deal between Chinese energy firm now under US
sanctions and former Kazakhstan prime minister who has been accused of treason in hopes of pocketing a fortune, laptop
emails reveal,” Daily Mail, February 2022, archive.ph/HCUrO
765 “[T]he plan was for the Kazakh government to award drilling rights to CNOOC, while Burisma would operate rigs and

wells in the Central Asian country.”

See FANG Frank, “Hunter Biden Tried to Broker Energy Deal With China’s State-Owned Oil Company,” The Epoch Times,
February 2022, archive.ph/Nv36P
766 Stephanie Condon, “Obama rejects Keystone XL pipeline,” CBS News, November 2015, archive.ph/qYoWD

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S.D.N.Y. & 18 USC §§ 2, 981(a)(1)(A),
04/22/2014ff Devon Archer
D.N.J. 1956(a)(1)(a)(ii), 1957(a) & NY PL 470.15

Archer’s purposely obscure reference to “some business” also included a new Porsche SUV for
Hunter, the funds for which Hunter did not report to U.S. tax authorities. One of RAKISHEV’s many
shell767 companies—Novatus Holding Pte. Ltd., domiciled768 in Singapore—wired $142,300769 to
Archer’s bank account at Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC on 04/22/2014. ABLV Bank, based in Latvia,
facilitated the transaction, the memo for which read: “For a car.” ABLV bank was a favorite money
laundering vehicle for criminals like RAKISHEV and Archer; in fact, because ABLV was intimately
involved “in North Korea’s procurement or export of ballistic missiles”770 and other egregious illegal
activity, the U.S. Treasury effectively killed the bank by cutting it off from the U.S. financial sector.771

RAKISHEV

767 “Form 4,” Securities and Exchange Commission, October 2012, archive.ph/nrVzO
768 “Novatus Holding Pte. Ltd., … registered in Singapore (Registration No. 201211486K)[.]”
See “Novatus,” archive.ph/Mkorl & archive.ph/dOMlp
769 United States v. Galanis et al. (16-cr-00371), Gov’t Exhibit 301, S.D.N.Y., archive.ph/otWMZ

770 “Most damning of all, FinCEN alleges that the bank not only facilitated transactions for North Korean sanctioned

entities, it lied about it[.]

See Frances COPPOLA, “Why the U.S. Treasury Killed a Latvian Bank,” Forbes, February 2018, archive.fo/2oPcs
771 “FinCEN Names ABLV Bank of Latvia an Institution of Primary Money Laundering Concern and Proposes Section 311

Special Measure,” FinCEN, U.S. Department of Treasury, February 2018, archive.fo/yVFhh

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The very next day after receiving the wire from RAKISHEV’s shell company, Hunter caused the
$142,300 lump sum to be wired to a “Schneider Nelson Motor Company,” based in New Jersey.772
Contemporaneous emails exchanged between Hunter and Archer revealed that Nurlan ABDUOV
orchestrated the money laundering, but the cash was sent through RAKISHEV.773 Later that summer
on 07/15/2014, Hunter called the criminal activity “a business transaction too complicated to explain,”
but he nevertheless “ended up with a 2014 Porsche Panamera Executive 4S fully loaded blue[.]”774

Nurlan ABDUOV
nurlan@abduov.com

VIN: WP0BB2A7XEL063655

772 “Schneider + Nelson Auto Group,” January 2014, archive.ph/8RiH8

773 “One of those oligarchs included Nurlan Abduov, the associate of another Kazakh oligarch, Kenges Rakishev.
Rakishev is the son-in-law of the former vice prime minister of Kazakhstan, Imangali Tasmagambetov. Tasmagambetov
was also formerly the defense minister and is now the Kazakh ambassador to Russia.”
See Kristina Wong, “Hunter Biden’s Firms Scored Reportedly Hundreds of Millions from Russians, Chinese, and
Kazakhs,” Breitbart, January 2020, archive.ph/ttZG3
774 “VIN Check Report: 2014 Porsche Panamera - WP0BB2A7XEL063655,” archive.ph/WWJv0

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05/07/2014ff D.D.C. Devon Archer 18 USC § 2 & 22 USC § 612

The aforementioned energy deal—which Hunter’s colleagues discussed using the code name of
“Project Carmen”—between CNOOC775 and Burisma was going to be capitalized with $40M by BHR.
Archer told POZHARSKYI that the “primary meeting [was] set [up] with the Prime Minister of KZ
[Kazakhstan], Masimof [sic], on June 2nd [2014]. Everything will revolve around that meeting and the
subject will be securing the highest quality proven reserve fields in KZ” in order for Burisma to then
send those energy deposits to China.776 Hunter not only violated the FARA by advocating for
“Nikolay’s visa issue[s]” to U.S. feds, but he also declined Secret Service protection in Kazakhstan.

775 “The eastern South China Sea accounted for about 242,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day for the company in 2019[.]”
See “Why South China Sea Is Key to Blacklisted Oil Giant CNOOC,” Bloomberg, January 2021, archive.ph/sohEa
776 “U.S. Investors are Funding Malign PRC Companies on Major Indices,” U.S. Department of State, December 2020,

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