Hunter Biden, the son of the president of the United States, Joe Biden, declared himself this Thursday not guilty on nine federal charges for evading taxes and filing a fraudulent weapons possession form.

Biden, 52, appeared before a judge in Los Angeles (California) for a first hearing in a case in which He is accused of not having paid approximately 1.4 million of dollars (1.2 million euros) in federal taxes during a period of four years, from 2016 to 2019.

The charges against him were presented last December by special counsel David Weiss, who is examining the case after being appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in August and was nominated in 2017 by then-President Donald Trump.

According to the indictment, Biden’s son spent $1.4 million in federal taxes in drugs, companions, luxury hotels, luxury vehicles or clothing, among others. In total, the federal charges amount to a maximum sentence of 17 years in prison.

Biden also faces a possible congressional investigation led by the Republican Party about what House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer describes as the Biden family’s “shady dealings.”