Shokin in a sentence

Biden was withholding much-needed aid to Ukraine in exchange for bribes for Shokin’s removal, Shokin believes.

However, it is well-understood by Western authorities and the current Ukrainian government, as well as by Shokin's former Deputy Prosecutor, Vitaliy Kasko, that Shokin was, in fact, corrupt himself.

Joe Biden has acknowledged on camera that, when he was vice president, he successfully pressured Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, while Shokin was investigating the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings — where Hunter Biden was on the board.

Archer specifically described Zlochevsky and Pozharskyi’s pressure on Hunter Biden to “call D.C.” get Shokin fired, Comer said.

At the time of his ouster, Shokin was investigating Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company that was facing global scrutiny for alleged money laundering operations.

Because he was having problems accessing the US oil market due to a corruption investigation by Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, the gas firm executive tried to win the Bidens’ favour.

He further alleged that Joe Biden himself had ordered Shokin fired before he could crack the case, however, reports revealed that Hunter was never involved in any probe.

Yuri Lutsenko, the prosecutor general who took over for Shokin after his ouster in 2016, had relied on the same lobbyists representing Ukrainian energy company Burisma and its chief executive for years, emails suggest.

Biden allies maintain the vice president pushed for Shokin’s firing due to concerns the Ukrainian prosecutor went easy on corruption and say his firing was the policy position of the U.S. and international community.

Biden, at the time, threatened to withhold $1 billion of critical U.S. aid if Shokin was not fired.

In March 2016, Joe Biden is alleged to have threatened to withhold $1 billion in aid to if Shokin was not fired for corruption, which he eventually was.

According to a White House transcript of the call released by the president, Trump asked Zelenskyy “to look into” Joe Biden’s admission that he forced the firing of a Ukrainian state prosecutor—Shokin—who was investigating Burisma.

Shokin’s real goal was to shield the owner of Burisma from investigation into suspected money-laundering of funds suspected of being embezzled from Ukrainian state resources on a massive scale.

That allegation has been — the prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, was widely viewed as corrupt, and his removal was supported by many American and European officials.

As vice president under Trump’s predecessor, Democratic President Barack Obama, Biden played a leading role in U.S. efforts to dismiss Shokin over corruption concerns.

But after getting fired, Shokin started to level a very specific allegation against the Bidens — namely that Joe had him sacked to protect Hunter’s sweetheart deal with Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company he was allegedly investigating.

But a sworn statement by former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin for use in the case suggests that Firtash’s defense has, at least in part, relied on claims similar to those made by Giuliani.

But there is a long list of Western organizations, governments, and diplomats, as well as Ukrainian anti-corruption groups, that wanted to see Shokin fired.

But when the Ukrainian prosecutor general launched an investigation into Burisma, the Obama administration demanded that Viktor Shokin, the man who took over the office a year later, be removed.

Even more damnably, Biden bragged, and the video exists as proof, about bribing Ukraine with $1 billion to fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Hunter’s company.