Anonymous ID: a6fd3a Jan. 19, 2023, 6:11 p.m. No.18178222   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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http://web.archive.org/web/20191005211420/https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-05/bidens-visits-to-ukraine-under-scrutiny

 

In an interview, Poroshenko recalled “heated” but cordial discussions with Biden.

 

He said the loan guarantees were contingent on meeting International Monetary Fund benchmarks, including replacing the prosecutor general. Biden was not alone in his demands, Poroshenko said.

 

“Pressure on us came from everywhere: the activists, political forces, embassies, international organizations,” he said, adding that the names of Hunter Biden and Burisma never came up.

 

In the eight days before Shokin was fired in March 2016, Biden phoned Poroshenko four times to reiterate the U.S. position, former aides said. The Ukranian leader finally relented, and Shokin was sacked.

 

Western diplomats saw Shokin, who still sometimes wore his old Soviet-style uniform, as a relic of a stultified system and a “pay-to-play” prosecutor. Shokin, who declined to be interviewed for this story, blames his ouster on an illegal foreign intervention in Ukraine’s domestic affairs.

 

“My actions as General Prosecutor did not suit the interests of the U.S. Vice President Biden and the persons connected to him,” Shokin said in an affidavit filed Sept. 4 in an Austrian court on a separate case. He said Biden was motivated by his son’s connection to Burisma but offered no evidence.

 

Ukrainian officials say the inquiry into alleged improprieties at Burisma has never been completely closed.

 

“The Burisma case is still there; it’s up and down,” a senior Ukrainian official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. “But the Burisma case and a Hunter Biden case are totally different things, and the latter simply does not exist.”

 

On Friday, Ukraine’s current prosecutor general, Ruslan Ryaboshapka, said his office would revisit about 15 legal cases that were closed or had gone dormant in recent years, including several involving Burisma and the oligarch who controls it, Mykola Zlochevsky. Ryaboshapka said he would consider reopening any case that ended prematurely or improperly.

 

 

Wondering now if the Biden docs deal with transcripts of his phone calls with people in Ukraine? Aren't there recordings out there?