"Rosemont Seneca Partners, was receiving regular payments—“usually more than $166,000 a month”—from Burisma. The payments ran from the spring of 2014 through the fall of 2015 and reportedly totaled more than $3 million."
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In the spring of 2014, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office opened an investigation into Zlochevsky at the behest of the UK prosecutors office, which was investigating money laundering allegations against and had just frozen $23.5 million in assets in early April 2014.
Immediately following this event, Burisma appointed Hunter Biden to its board on April 18, 2014. Hunter got $166K/month - way above norm, ultimately totaling over $3mm.
Ukrainian prosecutors then refused to provide the UK with needed documents, and in January 2015, a British court ordered Zlochevsky's (Burisma owner) assets unfrozen.
On Feb. 10, 2015, Shokin was appointed prosecutor general of Ukraine, and he picked up the investigation into Burisma, which continued until his formal (forced) resignation in February 2016.
Biden led the effort to remove Shokin by threatening to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees. Biden recalled telling Poroshenko:
“Petro, you’re not getting your billion dollars. It’s OK, you can keep the [prosecutor] general. Just understand—we’re not paying if you do.”
“Petro, you’re not getting your billion dollars. It’s OK, you can keep the [prosecutor] general. Just understand—we’re not paying if you do.”
Shokin was removed by Poroshenko shortly thereafter, in early 2016.
Following Shokin’s forced dismissal, the Burisma investigation was transferred to Sytnyk’s NABU, which then reportedly closed the investigation sometime in 2016.
Following Shokin’s forced dismissal, the Burisma investigation was transferred to Sytnyk’s NABU, which then reportedly closed the investigation sometime in 2016.
On Jan 15, 2016, Biden met with Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, promising to commit $220 million in new assistance to Ukraine.
On Jan. 21, 2016, Biden met with Poroshenko, the president of Ukraine.
According to the White House release, the two leaders agreed “to continue to move forward on Ukraine’s anti-corruption agenda.”
According to the White House release, the two leaders agreed “to continue to move forward on Ukraine’s anti-corruption agenda.”
A Jan. 22, 2016, NABU press release confirmed that NABU Director Artem Sytnyk was in Washington from Jan. 19 to 21.
The exact same timeframe.
The exact same timeframe.
Several months later, Sytnyk and Ukrainian Member of Parliament Serhiy Leshchenko publicly disclosed the contents of the Ukrainian “black ledger” to the media, which implicated Manafort.
NABU, which worked directly w/FBI, has repeatedly refused to make the memorandum of understanding with the FBI public and went to court in 2018 to prevent its release.
