Thread by @BonicMichael

In Dec 2017 why were all charges dropped against Zlochevsky and Burisma Holdings ten months after Yuriry Lutsenko had replaced Victor Shokin, whom Poroshenko fired thanks to Joe Biden? Obama had begun US’s investigation into Zlochevsky & Burisma Holdings.

https://twitter.com/BonicMichael/status/1195587880501956609?s=20

2/Mykola Zlochevsky
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Zl…
“... Zlochevsky returned to Ukraine in February 2018 after investigations into his Burisma Holdings had been completed in December 2017 with no charges filed against him.
On April 18, 2018, recordings of conversations between President

3/“of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and Zlochevsky were released which implicated him in graft.
On June 15, 2018, after the Solomyansky District Court in Kyiv had annulled the ruling of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) to close a criminal proceeding against

4/“him in 2017, Zlochevsky was accused of having illegally issued, while he was Ecology Minister in 2010–2012, oil and gas licenses to the companies that belonged to him.”

Was there bribery to get charges dropped? It only lasted to June 15, 2018, when “the Solomyansky District

5/“Court in Kyiv had annulled the ruling of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) to close a criminal proceeding against him in 2017.”

Court reinstates case against Mykola Zlochevsky
By Yuliana Romanyshyn. Published June 16, 2018.
kyivpost.com/ukraine-politi…

6/The court canceled the closure of the case against Zlochevsky
news.liga.net/politics/news/…
“The court decided to cancel the decision of the SAP prosecutor of August 1, 2017 to close this proceedings
The Solomensky District Court of Kiev resumed the investigation against the former

7/“Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Nikolai Zlochevsky. About this LIGA.net became known from sources in law enforcement.”

Onyshchenko releases alleged recording implicating Poroshenko, Zlochevsky in graft
[Oleg Sukhov 20 Apr 2018]
kyivpost.com/ukraine-politi…

8/So regardless of why or how the charges were dropped in Dec 2017, NABU is onto Zlochevsky for graft.

“Investigative journalist Dmytro Gnap published a recording of a conversation with fugitive lawmaker Oleksandr Onyshchenko, where he said that Zlochevsky paid $100 million for

9/“closing a criminal case against him and unblocking his assets in Ukraine.

The journalists also investigated the relations between Zlochevsky and companies that Burisma is partnering with. Zlochevsky’s Burisma Group had supplied natural gas to companies owned by President

10/“Poroshenko and his top allied lawmakers Ihor Kononenko and Oleh Gladkovsky, according to “Schemes” in 2017.

Onyshchenko released an alleged recording that implicates Poroshenko and Zlochevsky in corrupt agreements.”

11/So did in fact “Zlochevsky paid $100 million for closing a criminal case against him and unblocking his assets in Ukraine”?

“In 2015, a British court had found insufficient evidence of financial corruption against Zlochevsky & unblocked his bank accounts w/ some $23 million.”

12/Full circle: Why were all charges dropped against Zlochevsky and Burisma Holdings ten months after Yuriry Lutsenko had replaced Victor Shokin? Did Zlochevsky pay $100M to someone “for closing a criminal case against him and unblocking his assets”? If he did, who was it?🤔