[Breaking News] Prosecutor Shokin files a complaint against @JoeBiden for interference in Ukraine’s legal proceedings les-crises.fr/breaking-news-… via @lescrises
During 2014-2016, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine was conducting a preliminary investigation into a series of serious crimes committed by the former Minister of Ecology of Ukraine Mykola Zlotchevsky and by the managers of the company “Burisma Holding Limited”...
... the board of directors of which included, among others, Hunter Biden, son of Joseph Biden, then vice-president of the United States of America.
The investigation into the above-mentioned crimes was carried out in strict accordance with Criminal Law and was under my personal control as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
Owing to my firm position on the above-mentioned cases regarding their prompt and objective investigation, which should have resulted in the arrest and the indictment of the guilty parties, Joseph Biden developed a firmly hostile attitude towards me...
... which led him to express in private conversations with senior Ukrainian officials, as well as in public speeches, a categorical request for my immediate dismissal from the post of AG in exchange for ... $1B as a financial guarantee from the US for the benefit of Ukraine.”
“Due to continued pressure from the VP of the United States Joe Biden to oust me from the job by blackmailing the allocation of financial assistance, I, as a man who places State interests above my personal interests, agreed to abandon the post of Prosecutor General of Ukraine.”
“After my resignation caused by illegal pressure, no active investigation into the offenses concerning the company “Burisma Holding Limited” (Cyprus) was carried out and, therefore, the persons implicated in these offenses were not identified, nor arrested or charged.”
“... the request of ...Joseph Biden concerning my ousting from the post of AG of Ukraine as a condition for granting financial assistance is qualified as... interference in internal affairs of Ukraine by a foreign power in violation of one of the principles of international law.
“...the facts of pressure on me... from Joseph Biden in the circumstances described above are confirmed by an independent journalistic investigation under the name “UkraineGate” conducted and published by “Les-Crises.fr” ukrainegate.info/part-2-not-so-…
“Thus, the unlawful influence exerted on me as the head of a judicial structure in the country by Joseph Biden, who abused his power as the Vice-President of the United States in order to prevent me from carrying out my duties as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine...
...thus preventing me from solving serious crimes and arresting the persons who committed those crimes, has the characteristics of the crime stipulated in Article 343 part 2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.”
“On the basis of all the above and pursuant to Articles 55, 56, 214 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine,
I REQUEST:
To submit to the Unified Registry of Preliminary Investigations... the fact that...
I REQUEST:
To submit to the Unified Registry of Preliminary Investigations... the fact that...
Joseph Biden has committed on the territory of Ukraine and beyond its borders a crime against me, including interference in carrying out of the duties of a representative of a judicial structure, which falls within the scope of article 343 part 2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
To immediately open the preliminary investigation and give written orders to the investigators of the National Bureau of Investigation.
To be associated, I, V.M. Shokin, with the criminal investigation as a victim, to be delivered a memento on the rights and duties of a victim and to be questioned as a victim.”
