I've been arrested in Cyprus on a politically motivated extradition request by the US.
The US, claiming I'm an arms dealer. It would be funny if it weren't tragic.
I've never been an arms dealer.
DOJ is trying to bury me to protect Joe, Jim&Hunter Biden.
Shall I name names?
— Gal Luft (@GalLuft) February 19, 2023
Luft continued to deny the allegations leveled against him, confirming that he had "never been an arms dealer" and further claimed that the US Department of Justice is "trying to bury me to protect [US President Joe] Biden" and his family. Luft's lawyer, Mordechai Jivin, reiterated Luft's claims in an interview with Ynet on Sunday morning. According to Jivin, the professor was targeted by Washington for information provided to law enforcement in 2019 as part of the criminal investigation of Hunter Biden. Accusing Luft of arms trafficking to China and Libya “would be a good way to shut him up,” the lawyer said cynically, “because he knows a lot of information about Hunter.” The Senate just recently began investigating the Hunter case and Gall's testimony that if [he is allowed to testify] he will bury Hunter Biden. “Furthermore, his testimony will focus attention on the president himself,” Jivin argued. The lawyer also suggested that the Democratic Party would like Luft to 'disappear…If this happened in Russia, they would have staged a 'diplomatic car crash,' but luckily, he is in a safe location where no one can hurt him ." Who is suspected arms dealer Gal Luft? Luft, an author and expert on energy security and diplomacy, serves as co-director of the Washington-based Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS), a think tank focused on energy, security and economic trends, according to her website. Luft has publicly criticized American foreign policy, as well as the Biden administration as a whole, in the past. At a 2021 Beijing summit titled the International Forum for Democracy: Shared Human Values, Luft faulted the Biden administration's commitment to “go democracy only as far as its interests allow.”
