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In 2016 Biden ordered Ukraine to fire Prosecutor Shokin or US would cancel a $1 billion loan guarantee. So Ukraine fired the man. Also referenced here. Text from CFR 1/23/2018 transcript of Biden appearance. “Poroshenko signed an order to dismiss Shokin on April 3, 2016.” Relevant Biden text is near end of CFR page:
“And so I got Ukraine….And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev. And I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor [Shokin]. And they didn’t.
So they said they had...I said…I’m not going to—or, we’re not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. You’re not the president. The president said—I said, call him. (Laughter.) I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars….I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor [Shokin] is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. (Laughter.) He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”
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Added: Biden’s last trip to “U.S.-controlled aboriginal regime,” Ukraine, 1/6/2017: “If actually a sovereign state, Ukraine would have refused to receive Biden. But it seems that for the Kiev regime friendly backslappings by the U.S. boss are more important than their country’s national interests.“
1/17/2017, “Farewell tour of “old Joe”: Biden’s last visit to Ukraine,” Eurasia Daily, Denis Gayevsky, Kiev
“If you remember, the anti-terrorist operation in Donbass was preceded by the visit of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and CIA Director John Brennan to Kiev. During that visit in Apr 2014, Biden was sitting at the head of the negotiating table – the place meant for the president of Ukraine – and was distributing directives to the representatives of the “sovereign” Maidan regime.
Since then he has been the United States’ key inspector for Ukraine. Since 2014, old Joe has paid five visits to Kiev. In Dec 2015, he confessed that he had more conversations with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko than with his own wife. In less than two years, the two spent more than 1,000 hours talking on the phone.
In Ukraine, Biden was responsible for a wide range of issues – from appointments of personnel (it was he who forced Poroshenko to dismiss Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in exchange for a $1bn loan)
and settlement of conflicts inside the Kiev “terrarium of kindred
spirits” to military-political and diplomatic activities. And, of
course, he actively encouraged the Kiev regime into fighting corruption,
implementing reforms and doing other tasks U.S.-controlled aboriginal regimes are usually supposed to do.…
If actually a sovereign state, Ukraine would have refused to receive Biden. But it seems that for the Kiev regime friendly backslappings by the U.S. boss are more important than their country’s national interests.
But politics are not Biden’s only interest in Ukraine. Here he also has business interests. His son, Hunter Biden, is in the board of Ukraine’s biggest private gas producer, Burisma Holdings (an annual output of 1.5bn c m). That company is owned by Mykola Zlochevsky, who was Ecology Minister under Viktor Yanukovych. And just a week before Biden's visit to Ukraine, the country’s Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko ceased all criminal proceedings against Zlochevsky. Poroshenko might
have had a big role here as in Vienna journalists saw Zlochevsky talking
with Poroshenko’s man Ihor Kononenko, one of the grey
cardinals of the Kiev regime. Lutsenko’s decision was a great gift to
the Biden family as now they have free hands in Ukraine. Hunter Biden’s
appointment into Burisma’s board was a bright example of elite
corruption: Biden was given access to a gainful sector while Zlochevsky
got a political cover.
So, now that Biden has given final directives to his subordinates and has ensured sufficient defense for his family business, he can go back home with peace of mind and anticipation of a worthy retirement allowance, while disintegrated and imbalanced Ukraine will continue dabbling in the pit of its problems."
Подробнее: https://eadaily.com/en/news/2017/01/17/farewell-tour-of-old-joe-bidens-last-visit-to-ukraine
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