Kevin Rudd name-dropped by Hunter Biden’s jailed associate
The Daily Telegraph
November 2, 2020 6:38am
The jailed business partner of presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter claimed ex-pm Kevin Rudd was coming to one of their company’s banquets in order to celebrate a controversial Chinese takeover deal.
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New emails have surfaced from fraudster Devon Archer touting the former Labor leader’s name in a bid to snare important guests to a Chinese celebration dinner on October 28, 2015, hosted by Hunter Biden’s firm BHR Partners.
The company was also part-owned by Chinese Communist Party state firms, and had just bought out a militarily-sensitive US automaker.
“It would be a great honour if you could attend the evening banquet as our special guest,” Devon Archer wrote to US ambassador Max Baucus, signing the letter as Vice-Chairman.
“As well as our partners and investors there will be a number of foreign dignitaries such as Kevin Rudd and the Vice President of the Bank of China at the event.”
But a spokesman for Mr Rudd, who has been busy dealing with the fallout over the Jeffrey Epstein donations to his peace think-tank, said “his diary shows he was in London and Abu Dhabi that entire week”.
“Mr Rudd is not aware of this event and has no record of it,” he said.
Mr Rudd gave a speech at the Imperial Springs forum at Guangzhou on October 16-17 and later attended a Beijing conference with President Xi Jingping on November 3.
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Lots of connections here
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