Shokin wasn't investigating Burisma, according to the Ukraine Deputy General Prosecutor...... Who quit or was forced to, because he could not stand working in such a corrupt general prosecutor office...
And the next General Prosecutor who replaced Shokin, ran an investigation on Shokin cases to see who was being investigated during Shokin's year there, and what the new prosecutor general needed to continue with.... and he had no active investigation in to Burisma or the owner.
There are articles in the news from 2015 and 2016, about Shokin and our Diplomats/ambassador calling for the replacement of the General Prosecutor and complaints of total corruption, months and months before Biden's threat on holding back money until their act was cleaned up in their doj, (Prosecutor General's office) is cleaned up and rid of corruption. Google it!
Two of Shokin's prosecutors, labeled the Diamond Prosecutors, were caught being paid off by corrupt businesses with a slew of loose diamonds. Shokin refused to prosecute them, which was the straw that broke the camel's back, and this prominent and vocal Ukrainian Anti Corruption league, insisted Shokin be fired...they had it with him! Then the Ukrainian President at the time, finally asked Parliament, to kick him out.... And they did.
This was 3 to 4 months after Biden made his demand on firing him to the Ukraine President and 9 months after our Ambassador called for Shokin and others be kicked out and the department cleaned up.
Donald Trump said Ukraine’s former chief prosecutor was an honest, wronged man, fired after Joe Biden tried to shut down an investigation into his son’s gas company. In Kiev, Oliver Carroll speaks to people who know Viktor Shokin, and finds a different story
www.independent.co.uk
David Sakvarelidze was five months into a new job as Ukraine’s reformist deputy chief prosecutor when a witness came forward with intelligence that would change the course of everything.
The witness, a sand producer in the Kiev region, complained of men extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars. It took a while to persuade the man to give evidence. But when he did, and the investigation began, the trail led to two of the country’s highest-placed prosecutors.
A search of the men’s apartments revealed a scene that looked like a comic heist: bags full of cash, diamonds and other precious stones. But that was not the only incriminating evidence. Documents seized at the time indicated the men appeared to have a connection to the top prosecutor in the land, Viktor Shokin.
Police found copies of Shokin’s passports, property registration certificates and even his licence to carry firearms. One of the two men, it transpired, was Shokin’s former driver who had subsequently climbed the ranks behind his boss.
For Sakvarelidze, there were clear suspicions the two men may have been carrying out the business of the chief. But his attempts to investigate were frustrated. Soon, he faced a corruption investigation himself. At loggerheads with Shokin, he was pushed out of his job within the year.
The top prosecutor would also depart in March 2016...
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NOTE! THIS ARTICLE BELOW, is BEFORE Biden made his demand to fire Shokin...
Ukraine
UkraineAlert
November 4, 2015
Why Poroshenko’s Support for Shokin Is Dangerous
By Josh Cohen
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In a recent Brussels meeting with the President of the European Commission, Poroshenko received a promise that in exchange for implementing graft-fighting measures, the European Union would eliminate visa requirements for Ukraine’s 46 million citizens. In return, Ukraine would implement a series of anti-corruption reforms. At the top of the list is the nomination of a new independent prosecutor tasked with bringing down corrupt government officials. An eleven member selection panel—seven nominated by the Verkhovna Rada and four by Shokin—are to choose the best candidate for the post.
Shokin’s nominees are closely associated with the old system. At the Prosecutor General’s Office, Yury Hryshchenko managed Volodymyr Shapakin, the so-called “diamond prosecutor” who was arrested earlier this year in a sting operation for bribery with $400,000 dollars of cash in his office and $100,000 of diamonds in his home. First Deputy Prosecutor General Yury Sevruk has stymied reforms in the Prosecutor General’s Office. Reformers believe that making anti-reform individuals like Hryshchenko and Sevruk directly responsible for selecting the most important anti-corruption figure makes the process a mockery.
But it gets even worse. After Jan Tombinski, the European Union’s Ambassador to Ukraine, criticized Shokin’s appointments, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry sent a letter to the National Council on Reform urging Shokin to replace his appointees to the selection panel with qualified candidates.
Shokin doubled down, dismissing outside criticism and asserting his right to put whomever he wants on the panel. Shokin followed this up by allegedly threatening to prosecute Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry “for criminal acts intended at undermining the authority of state institutions” in a letter that Ukrainiska Pravda obtained and published. It seems Shokin prefers to use his prosecutorial discretion to threaten the very people seeking to free Ukraine from its endemic graft.
His behavior raises an obvious question: Why doesn’t Poroshenko fire Shokin?
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On October 31, protesters parked ninety-three cars outside the private residence of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to demand that he fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. Protesters held signs demanding change and a few held placards supporting the President. The atmosphere was...
www.atlanticcouncil.org
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SHOKIN WAS CORRUPT, HE NEEDED TO BE FIRED.
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