Luft, 57, is a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen and co-director of the energy and national security-focused think tank the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, based in Maryland. He has accused the Biden family of having benefited financially from relationships with individuals connected to the Chinese military. (Related: Biden crime family profited from influence peddling, received $10 million from China and other countries.)
The Republicans have been trying to get Luft to testify in Congress for some time now, touting him as a "missing" witness who could be the key to their ongoing efforts to link the Biden family to corrupt foreign business dealings.
Luft charged for not registering as a foreign agent of China
The indictment, handed down by a grand jury in 2022 and unsealed on July 10, accused Luft of recruiting and paying a former high-ranking U.S. government official on behalf of people based in China in 2016 without having registered as a foreign agent, as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams alleged that Luft's subversion of foreign agent registration laws was meant "to promote Chinese policies."
"They're claiming that the man that they [indicted] today was committing criminal offenses by doing international business deals without registration," commented Rick Wiles on TruNews. "Well – and I've asked this question in the past – is Hunter Biden a registered foreign agent? Everything the man does is with foreign countries. I seriously doubt he's ever filled out the official application with the State Department that you notify the department that you are acting as a foreign agent."
The Justice Department has further accused Luft of making false statements to federal agents and negotiating "illicit arms transactions, with, among others, certain Chinese individuals and entities" as well as people and organizations in Libya, the United Arab Emirates and Iran. The alleged connection to Iran also makes Luft in violation of Iranian sanctions.
The charges against Luft pose a collective maximum of 100 years in prison.
Republicans accuse Biden of trying to silence a whistleblower
Luft's indictment has spurred Republican officials to accuse Biden of trying to silence a whistleblower.
Kentucky Rep. James Comer, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, noted that Luft was "a credible witness that the FBI flew all the way to Brussels to interview and sent several agents to interview." He also suggested that Luft may have been indicted to stop him from testifying to his committee about Biden's alleged links to Chinese business dealings.
Meanwhile, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson claimed that Luft's indictment was meant to "silence him." The senator called for the whistleblower to be granted immunity.
For his part, Luft has denied any wrongdoing.
"I'm not a Republican. I'm not a Democrat. I have no political motive or agenda," he said in a video published by the New York Post. "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."
Luft added that he had previously warned the government "about the potential risk to the integrity of the 2020 elections."
"Ask yourself," he added. "Who is the real criminal in this story?"
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