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Source Reporting: On June 26, 2020, CHS S-("CHS") reported the following:

First Meeting with Burisma Executives in Kyiv, Ukraine 2015/2016. In late 2015 or 2016, during the Obama/Biden administration, CHS was first introduced to officials at Ukraine natural gas business Burisma Holdings ("Burisma) through Oleksandr Ostapenko (alternate transliteration -  Alexander Ostapenko; for full identification of Ostapenko, see attachments to CVSerial 212, a FD-1023 by CHS serialized on 3/2/2018).

CHS and Ostapenko traveled to Ukraine and went to Burisma's office that was located 20 minutes away from the City Center. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss Burisma's interest in purchasing a US-based oil and gas business, for purposes of merging it with Burisma for purposes of conducting an IPO in the US. Burisma was willing to purchase a US-based entity for $20-30 million. At this meeting was CHS, CHS's former business partner, (an USPER  Ostapenko, Burisma's CFO, Vadim Pojarskii (email Vadym.Pozharskyi, telephone ), Karina Zlochevsky (the daughter to Burisma's CEO and founder Mykola Zlochevsky) and her husband (FNU LNU). The conversation was in Russian, and thus  did not participate therein.

During the meeting, Pojarskii asked CHS whether CHS was aware of Burisma's Board of Directors. CHS replied "no", and Pojarskii advised the board member included: 1) the former President or Prime Minister of Poland; and, 2) Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden. Pojarskii said Burisma hired the former President or Prime Minister of Poland to leverage his contacts in Europe for prospective oil and gas deals, and they hired Hunter Biden to :protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems" (CHS was certain Pojarskii provided no further/specific details about what that meant).

CHS asked why they (Burisma) needed to get CHS's assistance regarding the purchase/merger of a US-based company when Biden was on their board. Pojarskii replied that Hunter Biden was not smart, and they wanted to get additional counsel. The group then had a general conversation about whether the purchase/merger with a US company would be a good business decision.

Meeting with CHS, Ostapenko, and Mykola Zlochevsky in Vienna, Austria in 2016. Approximately one or