Gal Luft, the Israeli academic who disappeared from Cyprus earlier this year after claiming that the Bidens were out to get him for revealing to the FBI the Biden family’s corruption, appears to be alive and well — hiding in an undisclosed country after reaching out to the New York Post.
Luft, an Israeli professor and political analyst who is the director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, apparently ran afoul of the Biden crime syndicate in 2019 when he met with FBI officials and DOJ prosecutors in Brussels and informed them that a Chinese government-connected energy company, CEFC, had paid $100,000.00 per month to Hunter Biden and $65,000.00 per month to his uncle Jim in exchange for their help in promoting China’s Belt and Road Initiative around the world. At the time, Luft’s attorney received a letter from a U.S. attorney assuring him that, if Luft agreed to meet with U.S. officials and provide testimony, “the US Attorney’s Office for the SDNY [Southern District of New York] will not arrest or cause to be arrested your client, Gal Luft, during the time that he is in Belgium.”
Luft also told FBI officials that Hunter had a personal informant within the FBI named “One Eye,” who had tipped off Hunter’s two business partners from CEFC, Patrick Ho and Ye Jianming, that they were being investigated by the FBI. Luft learned this information because of a relationship he had with a nonprofit associated with CEFC.
The Biden administration suddenly decided to go after Luft, and on November 1 last year issued an extradition order for him — a few days before the Republicans were expected to take control of Congress and start investigating the Biden family’s international web of corruption. In February of this year, Luft was detained in Cyprus in response to a U.S. extradition request and placed under loosely supervised house arrest there pending extradition proceedings. House congressional investigators, who had been planning to interview Luft, learned of his arrest via a tweet. Luft himself was not a willing informant or whistleblower; he had been trying to lie low and avoid the controversy. But the Bidens obviously regard him as too great a liability to be allowed to tell his story. Having effectively jumped bail, Luft can now be discredited by the Biden administration as an unreliable witness.
Luft, for his part, told the New York Post that he was being accused of arms dealing because of an email exchange: “I was charged for a thought crime. I was asked by a bona fide arms dealer, an Israeli friend, to inquire with a company I knew if they had an item and what would be the price of an item. This is where the conspiracy ended. No follow-up, no money, no brokering activity.”
He continued, “I didn’t want to get caught up in this game, but when they arrested me, I had no choice but to blow it up.”
Luft also claims that he met with Hunter and Jim Biden in the fall of 2017 in Hong Kong, where “they were behaving very suspiciously and changing phones.” As it turns out, the Post has been able to verify that Hunter Biden did indeed travel to Hong Kong on August 25, 2017, and returned to the United States from Thailand on September 8.
