"Biden takes bribes from his second son, Ukra," false informant sentenced to 6 years in prison.

CNN reported that an informant who fabricated false allegations that U.S. President Joe Biden and his second son Hunter received bribes from the Ukrainian side and fabricated related documents was sentenced to six years in prison.

Citing court records, CNN reported that Alexander Smirnov, a former Soviet-born and now dual U.S. and Israeli citizenship holder, was sentenced to six years in prison on the 8th local time.

Smirnov was indicted in February last year on charges of making up false information about Biden and his father and son, and in November was charged with tax evasion.

In December last year, Smirnov pleaded guilty to making false FBI records and tax evasion and agreed to pay the IRS $675,000 (W985 million) as a penalty.

At the time of the agreement, the range of sentences was a minimum of four years and a maximum of six years, agreed by both the prosecution and the defendant, of which the maximum sentence was sentenced.

Smirnov has served as an informant to the FBI and has used this position to confess to making up falsehoods that Biden and his father received $10 million (W14.6 billion) in bribes from Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

It also claimed that some of the information was provided by Russian sources.

Prosecutors criticized Smirnov for being a "liar, tax evasion fraud" and a "betrayal of the United States."

The false information that Smirnov made up and reported to the FBI in 2020 spread rapidly through right-wing media and social media as the U.S. Republican Party dug in a major way in 2023.

The FBI had investigated Smirnov's tip-off but had already concluded in 2020 that it had no credibility.