FBI informant Alexander Smirnov's face is finally seen for the first time in unearthed photos after being charged with lying to feds about Joe and Hunter Biden bribery claims

FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who was indicted for lying to nan feds aft falsely claiming Joe Biden took a $5million bribe, has been unmasked for nan first clip by DailyMail.com. 

Israeli-American Smirnov, 43, was secretly utilized for years by nan FBI arsenic a trusted Confidential Human Source.

But each clip he appears successful nationalist he goes to awesome lengths to screen his look excessively debar being recognized.

But now DailyMail.com has obtained antecedently unpublished pictures of nan man who nan halfway of told his FBI handler he was astatine meetings pinch a Ukrainian oligarch who bragged astir bribing Joe Biden and his boy Hunter pinch $10million.

Republican lawmakers published an FBI write-up of nan claims, and seized upon it arsenic grounds of nan president's corruption.

But in February prosecutors charged Smirnov pinch lying to nan FBI by fabricating nan bribery communicative – and suggested that he was successful truth a Russian double supplier planting Kremlin disinformation.

Smirnov, represented by apical Vegas lawyer David Chesnoff, has entered a not blameworthy plea.

Photographs exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com show him partying successful Las Vegas, his metropolis of residence earlier he was thrown successful national situation awaiting trial.

The mysterious informant has ne'er been pictured successful nationalist without a mask.

At a tribunal proceeding connected February 20, Smirnov's woman Diana Lavrenyuk, 58, and relative Linor Shefer, 38, were pictured flanking him arsenic he walked done a gaggle of journalists and photographers pinch his look covered pinch sunglasses, a look mask, scarf and hood.

Photographs wrong nan national courthouse were prohibited.

The unmasked pictures, obtained by DailyMail.com from a root who has worked pinch Smirnov, show him flying business people pinch Lavrenyuk, taking a selfie while smoking a cigaret beside nan Bellagio Fountain successful Vegas, and attending a gala meal pinch his girlfriend, who wore a reddish dress, furs, and a costume disguise complete her eyes.

Other undated photos show Smirnov dressed successful a achromatic suit, reddish roseate boutonniere and golden chain, appearing sloppy pinch his eyes closed, astatine a Vegas edifice meal array pinch Lavrenyuk posing by his side.

In April CBS News antecedently obtained a grainy passport photograph of Smirnov from respective years agone – nan only different unmasked image of nan mysterious man.

The Israeli-American kept a debased floor plan while he acted arsenic a paid informant for national rule enforcement complete 13 years, helping galore criminal and counterintelligence probes, according to prosecutors.

His indictment revealed he was nan 'Confidential Human Source' who told handlers astir alleged 2015 and 2016 meetings pinch nan proprietor of Ukrainian state patient Burisma, Mykola Zlochevsky, successful which nan oligarch boasted astir bribing Joe and his boy Hunter Biden pinch $5million each.

Smirnov now faces 25 years successful situation for allegedly fabricating nan claims, and is accused of 'high-level' and 'extremely recent' links pinch elder Russian intelligence officials – including nan main of an assassination squad.

A FBI study describing his claims astir nan Bidens became 1 of nan shocking documents successful nan Republican impeachment probe of nan President erstwhile it was published past year.

The allegations are now being formed arsenic imaginable Russian propaganda by Special Prosecutor David Weiss.

In national tribunal filings, Weiss said Smirnov's recreation and connection records show he didn't prosecute pinch Burisma executives until 2017, and he ne'er met Zlochevsky.

One of Weiss's tribunal submissions claimed Smirnov had 'high-level contacts pinch Russian intelligence operatives,' and that he passed connected 'false information' to nan FBI from these sources.

The filing said Smirnov told his FBI handlers that 1 of his confidants was a boy of a 'former high-ranking Russian authorities official,' who 'controls 2 groups of individuals tasked pinch carrying retired assassination efforts successful a third-party country.'

Prosecutors said Smirnov had planned to beryllium backmost successful nan US for conscionable 2 days, earlier flying to meet his Kremlin spy contacts, erstwhile he was arrested successful Vegas.

Weiss claimed Smirnov had $6million successful 'liquid funds', including $3.8million accessible by his 'wife/girlfriend', who pays his individual expenses from her ain relationship – an evident reference to Lavrenyuk, 58.

Residency records show her surviving pinch Smirnov successful San Juan Capistrano, California, until 2023. A three-bed, 2,805 sq ft condo successful a Vegas luxury high-rise was purchased successful her sanction for $980,000 successful February 2022.

Smirnov has a murky inheritance pinch ties to trading of penny banal nationalist companies and offshore companies.

A root who worked pinch Smirnov provided institution documents showing nan FBI informant is linked to a patient called A.S. Financials Ltd successful nan Republic of Vanuatu, a mini Pacific land concatenation disconnected nan northeast seashore of Australia.

Despite being named aft Smirnov's initials, nan firm's sole head and shareholder is his father, Konstantin Smirnov, a Russian-born Israeli resident, 2017 institution documents show.

Konstantin is besides a partner successful Felymos Trades Inc, a institution based successful nan offshore taxation haven of Panama, different archive obtained by DailyMail.com shows.

Hints of nan FBI informant's double-life slipped done to neighbors astatine his erstwhile location successful San Juan Capistrano successful conversations complete meal astatine a section steakhouse aliases backyard barbecue.

'He said he had connections pinch important people. In 1 speech he mentioned that he had a gathering pinch nan Minister of Defense successful Afghanistan,' 1 neighbor, who asked to stay anonymous, told DailyMail.com. 'And he had connections pinch important group successful nan US.'

'I cognize he was progressive pinch nan government. I cognize he was primitively from nan East Bloc. Though I don't deliberation he really told maine that,' said Mike Pastore, a 75-year-old owe agent who lives other nan terracotta-tiled four-bed location wherever Smirnov resided nan past 5 years earlier moving to Vegas successful 2023.

'From clip to time, we talked astir geopolitical stuff, and he was good informed. It was an absorbing speech pinch him… He traveled a lot.'

The government's prosecution of Smirnov for lying is simply a melodramatic reversal of their position from conscionable past year, erstwhile FBI head Christopher Wray said that nan then-unidentified informant was truthful valuable to nan Bureau's investigations that they could not merchandise a write-up of his interviews pinch a handler to Republican lawmakers.

And aft utilizing nan intelligence Smirnov provided for galore national probes complete a decade, nan caller charges against him person opened a tin of worms for nan government.

Other defendants, who were convicted aft national probes involving Smirnov, person started challenging their charges.

Andrew Hackett, 35, says he is simply a unfortunate of a authorities cover-up of Smirnov's engagement successful his case, complete a pump-and-dump banal trading scheme.

The Justice Department claimed he utilized telemarketing and newsletters to pump up nan value of a penny banal he owned, past planned to 'dump nan banal astatine inflated prices connected guiltless investors'.

Hackett was convicted of securities fraud successful August 2021 and sentenced to 46 months successful prison.

Last week Hackett, who does not person a lawyer, revenge a mobility for a caller proceedings successful a California national court, claiming nan authorities grounded to manus complete grounds recorded by Smirnov that could beryllium his innocence.

Hackett says that Smirnov participated successful his business calls, said pinch Hackett's business partners, and would person recorded those calls and meetings arsenic portion of his activity arsenic an FBI informant – but that prosecutors grounded to manus complete those records earlier Hackett's 2018 trial.

Hackett believes those records will show that he was conducting business legally, alternatively than orchestrating a pump-and-dump fraud.

'Smirnov's interactions and reports […] would person reasonably affected nan jury's judgment,' Hackett wrote successful his July 5 ineligible filing to a Los Angeles national court.

'The intentional non-disclosure of specified grounds allowed nan Government to mislead nan jury, deceive nan Court during its Motions successful Limine, and supply a mendacious position of nan facts astatine trial.

'The Government purposely continues to withhold disclosure of specified evidence, successful usurpation of nan defendant's owed process rights.'

DailyMail.com has obtained audio recordings of immoderate of those business calls, wherever Smirnov tin beryllium heard speaking pinch an evident Russian accent.