Document: Ukraine's ex-top cop said Burisma was the reason for his firing
By Tatiana Prophet
editor@back2facts.com
Chief Prosecutor Viktor Shokin in February 2016.
A reporter and founding board member for news web site The Hill has posted on Scribd an affidavit signed Sept. 4, 2019, by former Chief Prosecutor Viktor Shokin of Ukraine, stating the details of his departure from the top cop position in April 2016 after pressure from then-president Joe Biden. John Solomon posted the document on Scribd.
In it, Shokin details meddling by the United States into Ukraine’s justice system, specifically trying to prevent a Ukrainian oligarch from returning home as well as pressuring then-President Petro Poroshenko to fire his former ally on false pretenses.
By contrast, a reporter for the Washington Post was able to run across Shokin’s replacement at a hotel in Kyiv. Yuriy Lutsenko’s interview yielded the enlightening headline: “Former Ukraine prosecutor says Hunter Biden ‘did not violate anything.’ “ The article reveals that Lutsenko actually met with Trump attorney and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani in New York City in January while on vacation with his son, he reportedly told the Post. He had previously “cast doubt” on the younger Biden’s actions in Ukraine, stated the Post today, citing no sources.
The Washington Post included a lot of background in the article about Donald Trump, but left out Lutsenko’s own history, which included being jailed for allegedly improper surveillance of suspects in a poisoning case, in a situation that seems to suggest political retribution. He was pardoned in 2013 by President Viktor Yanukovich, a Russia-friendly Ukrainian president who was ousted in 2014 in the Euromaidan uprising.
Read the Shokin statement here:
Yuriy Lutsenko, the prosecutor who replaced Viktor Shokin after Shokin was let go under pressure from the United States.