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From Wikipedia on Viktor Shokin
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Various street protests demanding Shokin's resignation were held.[18][19][20] On 2 November 2015, there was an assassination attempt against him when an unidentified sniper fired three shots into his office, but was foiled by the bulletproof glass window.[21] In response to a query from Ukrainian News Agency in late 2019, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) acknowledged that it is continuing to investigate the attempted assassination of Shokin.[22]
Through 2015 and early 2016, domestic and international pressure (including from the IMF, the EU, and the EBRD) built for Shokin to be removed from office. The Obama administration withheld $1 billion in loan guarantees to pressure the Ukrainian government to remove Shokin from office.[23][24][25]
His defenders nonetheless argued that he played an important role "balancing competing political interests".[27] His Deputy Prosecutor, Vitaly Kasko, announced his resignation on 15 February 2016 denouncing the corruption and lawlessness of the Prosecutor's office.[28] Shokin was also criticized in Ukraine for failing to prosecute snipers who killed demonstrators during the revolution, as well as for failing to investigate corrupt businesses.[29]
On 16 February 2016, Shokin submitted a letter of resignation,[30] although the next day an official of the prosecution office stated, "As far as I know he has taken a paid leave".[31] On 19 February 2016 presidential press secretary Sviatoslav Tsegolko wrote on Twitter that the presidential administration had received an official letter of resignation from Shokin.[32]
On 16 March 2016 an official of the prosecution office stated that Shokin had resumed his work.[7] On the same day, his office carried out a raid against one of Ukraine's leading anti-corruption groups, the Anti-Corruption Action Center (AntAC), claiming that it had misappropriated aid money.[20] AntAC was a frequent critic of the Prosecutor General's Office under Shokin.[33] In one notorious case, two of Shokin's prosecutors were caught with stashes of diamonds, cash and valuables in their homes, likely indicating bribery. Prosecutors from another department of Shokin's office were fired or reassigned when they attempted to bring a prosecution against the so-called "diamond prosecutors".[34]
On 28 March, protesters called for Shokin's firing, after his office was authorized by a Kyiv court to investigate AntAC.[20][35] Shokin was formally dismissed in a parliamentary vote on 29 March 2016.[36] The European Union praised Shokin's dismissal due to a "lack of tangible results" of his office's investigations, and also because people in Shokin's office were themselves being investigated.[9] Following his dismissal Shokin went into retirement.[37]