Gal Luft, a “missing” witness in the House Oversight Committee’s investigation of corruption in the Biden family, told The Post that he’s alive and living as a fugitive at an undisclosed location.
A former Israeli army colonel disappeared from Cyprus last month while on bail awaiting extradition to the US on seven counts.
He denies the allegations, including five Arms Export Control Act related charges, alleging conspiracy to sell Chinese products to the United Arab Emirates, Kenya and Libya, as well as violations of the Foreign Agents Registration and False Testimony Act.
Luft says he was forced to depart bail because he’s a victim of political persecution by the US to guard Joe Biden and his son Hunter and brother Jim.
“The probabilities of me getting a fair trial in Washington are virtually zero,” he said in a phone call from an undisclosed foreign country, explaining why he had dropped bail. “I needed to do what I needed to do.”
He won’t say how he escaped from Cyprus because “I don’t desire people to get in trouble.”
His automotive was found abandoned by the police near the airport.
“I have been accused of thoughtcrime,” he says of the arms-trafficking allegations from an electronic message five years ago. “I used to be asked by a real arms dealer, an Israeli acquaintance, to ask a company I do know in the event that they had the item and what the value could be. The plot ended there. No sequel, no money, no middlemen.”
He sees sinister intent in the extradition date of November 1, 2022, seven days before the midterm elections, when Republicans were expected to take control of the House of Representatives and start investigating Biden’s family’s influence-trafficking allegations abroad.
House Oversight investigators were preparing to query him before he disappeared.
“Just when it became clear that the Republicans would win the House or the Senate, suddenly it comes [GOP Rep. James] Newcomer and [GOP Rep. Jim] Jordan and the sport is changing. There shall be questions, subpoenas and investigations [so] They [the administration] must discredit me. I never thought of stepping forward. Through 2020 I even have been sitting as quiet as a fish…
“I didn’t need to get caught up in this game, but after they arrested me, I had no selection but to blow myself up.”
Luft caught the eye of House of Representatives investigators on February 18 when a tweet appeared on his timeline after he was detained at a Cypriot airport.
“I used to be arrested in Cyprus on the idea of a politically motivated US extradition request … claiming to be an arms dealer … I even have never been an arms dealer.
“The DoJ is attempting to bury me to guard Joe, Jim and Hunter Biden.”
Hunter payment information
In March 2019, Luft met with 4 FBI officials and two Justice Department prosecutors on the U.S. Embassy in Brussels to relay information that the state-controlled Chinese energy company CEFC was paying Hunter Biden $100,000 a month and his uncle Jim $65,000 in return for his or her Affiliation with the FBI and the usage of the Biden name to advertise China’s Belt and Road Initiative world wide.
Luft, who had business relationships with a non-profit think tank affiliated with the CEFC, also told the FBI that Hunter had an FBI mole named “One Eye” who tipped off his CEFC business partners Patrick Ho and Ye Jianming that they were in the strategy of investigations; he said CEFC officials and one other person were named in the sealed indictment.
Ye believed that “the FBI followed him while he was walking in Central Park,” says Luft.
Luft was concerned about being indicted because Ho had told him his name was “Jewish”.
Shortly after being alerted by One Eye, Ye offered Hunter $1 million to be his “private adviser” and flew to China, leaving his wife, daughter, son, mother and nanny in a $50 million apartment in Central Park West.
He was detained in Shanghai three months later and disappeared.
Ho told Luft that Hunter and Jim Biden flew to Hong Kong in the autumn of 2017 to satisfy him.
“They behaved very suspiciously and altered phones,” says Luft. “You said send a million dollars and these guys will deal with you.”
The one evidence on Hunter’s laptop that he flew to Hong Kong during this era is an email confirming a one-way top quality flight from Dulles Airport to Hong Kong on August 25, 2017. IFlyFirstClass.com.
Just a few days later, in emails from a travel agent, Hunter requested a return flight on September 8, 2017 from Koh Samui, Thailand to Baltimore-Washington Airport.
In response to Luft, Ho was a “naive … stick” who believed Ye’s assurances that he wouldn’t be arrested if he returned to the US.
On November 18, 2017, Ho flew back to the USA and was arrested by the FBI on charges of bribery and money laundering.
Ho was sentenced on March 25, 2019 to 3 years in prison, after which he was deported.
During Ho’s trial, Luft says, prosecutors removed all references to the Bidens from emails between Ho and Hunter’s associate Vuk Jeremić, who was a member of the CEFC’s advisory board, a former Serbian foreign minister and former president of the UN General Assembly.
“Editorial” dispute.
The court transcript shows a dispute between Ho’s defense attorney Edward Kim and prosecutor Dan Richenthal over whether to remove from the e-mail the name of one in every of the “distinguished and influential friends” Ho asked Jeremic to ask to dinner or lunch in Washington, D.C., on December 6, 2015.
“The name of this person shouldn’t be relevant and should introduce a political dimension to this case that we don’t imagine is price pursuing,” Richenthal told the judge, who agreed to the editorial.
There isn’t any evidence that lunch or dinner took place, but a calendar entry on Hunter’s laptop indicates that on December 7, 2015, he had a meeting with “CEFC Chairman Ye Jienmaing [sic] AND [CEFC consultant] Scott O.H.” scheduled.
After Ho was convicted, Luft contacted the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Latest York from Israel to supply a voluntary hearing or “promoting” meeting.
He says Justice Department officials have settled in Brussels as neutral territory.
Luft showed The Post a letter arranging a “proffer” meeting in Brussels, signed on March 25, 2019 by Geoffrey Berman, then the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Latest York, whose agents had arrested Ho a 12 months earlier.
“We’re writing to tell you that the US Attorney’s office for SDNY is not going to arrest or cause the arrest of your client, Gala Lufta, during his stay in Belgium from roughly Tuesday, March 26, 2019 to Monday, April 1, 2019, in connection together with his presence at meetings with this office on 28 and 29 March 2019.” Berman writes to Luft lawyer Robert Henoch.
Luft says the 2 assistant U.S. prosecutors who questioned him for 18 hours in Brussels were a part of the team that charged Ho:Richenthal and Catherine Ghosh, whose names also appeared on his Cypress extradition warrant.
4 FBI agents were also present in Brussels, he says, no less than two from the Homeland Security Division at FBI headquarters and one from the Baltimore field office that has been involved in the Hunter Biden investigation led by Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss since 2018.
Luft told them concerning the CEFC payments to Hunter and Jim Biden and that Biden family associate Rob Walker was involved in distributing the payments, which was later confirmed by subpoenaed bank records released by the House Oversight Committee showing that Walker transferred greater than $1 million from China to no less than three of President Biden’s relatives.
Luft says all the pieces he told US officials was “confirmed” nine months later when the FBI picked up Hunter’s laptop from a Delaware computer repair shop where he had abandoned it.
“They were sitting on all the knowledge. They didn’t need any latest information after they’d the laptop and my victim, but they wasted one other 12 months and didn’t do anything, so… now there’s a guy who can make clear the cover-up and they’ll arrest him.”
Lower than 4 weeks after the meeting in Brussels, Joe Biden announced that he was running for president.
Despite the bombings that Luft put forth in Brussels, he never heard from the FBI or prosecutors again until he was arrested in Cyprus.
The allegations against Luft are serious and must be fully investigated, as should his cover-up allegations.