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I have posted this link multiple times.Didn't miss it. It's simply not true. Shokin was protecting Zlochevsky for 2 years, not pursuing charges. The claim that Shokin was actively investigating Burima, comes from Shokin.
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Timeline: Trump, Giuliani, Bidens, and Ukraine (updated)
A chronology of "Ukrainegate" and the Trump-Giuliani pressure on Ukraine to investigate former Vice President and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden.www.justsecurity.org
Vitaliy Kasko, a former deputy prosecutor general who had worked under Shokin and resigned in frustration at his stymying of corruption investigations, told Bloomberg News (in a May 2019 interview) that the office’s probe into Burisma Holdings had been long dormant by the time Joe Biden issued his ultimatum in 2016. “There was no pressure from anyone from the U.S. to close cases against” Burisma owner Zlochevskiy, Bloomberg quoted Kasko as saying. “It was shelved by Ukrainian prosecutors in 2014 and through 2015,” Kasko said.“Shokin was not investigating. He didn’t want to investigate Burisma,” Daria Kaleniuk a leading Ukrainian anti-corruption advocate, told the Washington Post. “And Shokin was fired not because he wanted to do that investigation, but quite to the contrary, because he failed that investigation.”
And the NY Times article referenced in your thehill article doesn't say Shokin was actively investigating Burisma. To the contrary, the only investigation ot mentions was the UK investigation into Zlochevsky which the UK had to drop because Ukraine's Prosecutor General's office was protecting Zlochevsky. And it was Shokin who was assigned to help the UK's investigation.
But after Ukrainian prosecutors refused to provide documents needed in the investigation, a British court in January ordered the Serious Fraud Office to unfreeze the assets. The refusal by the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office to cooperate was the target of a stinging attack by the American ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey R. Pyatt, who called out Burisma’s owner by name in a speech in September.“In the case of former Ecology Minister Mykola Zlochevsky, the U.K. authorities had seized $23 million in illicit assets that belonged to the Ukrainian people,” Mr. Pyatt said. Officials at the prosecutor general’s office, he added, were asked by the United Kingdom “to send documents supporting the seizure. Instead they sent letters to Zlochevsky’s attorneys attesting that there was no case against him. As a result, the money was freed by the U.K. court, and shortly thereafter the money was moved to Cyprus.”
I have it bookmarked.
But RWI's are believing the FAKE story made up by 4 people.
Those 4 are Rudy, trump, John Soloman and Shokin.
Imagine that.