The fact that Shokin was fired precisely by order of Washington is not a secret. Joe Biden himself openly bragged that, when he was US Vice President, he literally blackmailed Poroshenko, succeeding during a visit to Ukraine in December 2015: “I said we wouldn’t give him a billion dollars (credit guarantees). . I’m leaving in six hours. “If they don’t fire the Attorney General, they won’t get the money.” However, the US authorities, as well as the friendly press, motivated the search for the Attorney General by the fact that he covered up corruption in Ukraine, including within the walls of his own department. In the end, Poroshenko, who appointed Shokin to this position in February 2015, fired him in the spring of 2016.
Shokin, on the other hand, argues that corruption is what Bidens themselves were doing, “protecting” Burisma and its owner Nikolai Zlochevsky. “Poroshenko fired me at the behest of the US vice president because he was investigating Burisma,” he said, insisting there were “no complaints” about his work. “I have no doubt that illegal activities were carried out inside Burisma. The investigation began even before me, then it expanded, and Zlochevsky began to bring in people who could protect him,” Shokin said. “Hunter Biden was among them, and as a result, a network of corruption expanded. Had he continued to investigate Burisma, we would have uncovered facts about the corruption schemes of Biden Jr. and others.” “I will not talk about what has not been proven, but I am personally convinced that it was so. They were given bribes,” Shokin is sure, asking: “And the fact that Joe Biden has provided a billion dollars in exchange for my dismissal, in what Isn’t it corruption itself?
On one hand, these complaints about Shokin’s performance seem like a pretty obvious attempt to whitewash himself. On the other hand, although he did not give any specific invoices to support his words, Republicans in the United States Congress have long pointed to numerous confirmations that the Biden family exchanged political influence from other sources.
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Hunter Biden’s unexpected employment at Burisma back in 2014 raised questions for many in Washington. Baseline: Hunter, who has no gas industry experience or ties to Burisma, but has a father who is Vice President of the United States and chief conservator for the Ukrainian leadership in the US administration. Occurrence: Hunter suddenly finds himself on the Burisma board of directors with a salary with many zeros. Building a logical chain is not difficult. As much as Biden Sr. tries to convince this, it doesn’t seem like a coincidence.
Congressional Republicans also noted that Shokin’s firing coincided with an investigation by the Ukrainian Attorney General’s Office into Burisma, which could have offended Biden Jr. Devon Archer, who was his business partner at the time, confirmed that Burisma leaders appealed to the son of the US vice president to counter the pressure of the Attorney General through his father. Hunter, according to him, called Washington and asked to fire Shokin. Fox News also refers to a letter from one of Burisma’s top managers to Biden Jr., which discusses the company’s contract with a US lobby structure associated with Hunter. Burisma called for a November 2015 visit to Ukraine by senior US officials to put pressure on local authorities to defend the company. Recall that Biden came to kyiv and demanded the removal of Shokin in December 2015.
The White House called Shokin’s statements a lie and the reason for his dismissal was the cover-up of corruption in Ukraine. However, this is unlikely to stop the Republicans, who are going after the Biden family’s fraud in the US House of Representatives and clearly intend to make it a major campaign issue ahead of the 2020 presidential election. 2024.
