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Former Ukraine prosecutor makes shocking revelations about the Bidens

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  • Source: News websites
  • 30 Aug 2023 22:48
4 Min Read

Vitkor Shokin told Fox News that he believes both Joe and Hunter Biden were bribed in connection with a corruption case, but did not provide any evidence to support this claim.

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  • Viktor Shokin, then Ukraine's prosecutor general, holds a news conference in Kyiv in February 2015. (AP)
    Viktor Shokin, then-Ukraine's prosecutor general, holds a news conference in Kiev in February 2015. (AP)

Viktor Shokin, the former Ukrainian prosecutor general, said in an exclusive interview with Fox News that he was dismissed by the Obama administration while investigating Burisma Holdings, the energy company on whose board Hunter Biden served.

In an interview with Fox News' Brian Kilmeade, Shokin said that he believes he was fired in 2016 because then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter were bribed.

Shokin was appointed prosecutor general of Ukraine in 2015, but was ousted by then-President Petro Poroshenko the following year due to allegations of corruption and pressure from the US government, led by Biden.

"I have said repeatedly in my previous interviews that Poroshenko fired me at the insistence of the then Vice President Biden because I was investigating Burisma," Shokin told Kilmeade.

"[Poroshenko] understood and so did Vice President Biden, that had I continued to oversee the Burisma investigation, we would have found the facts about the corrupt activities that they were engaging in. That included both Hunter Biden and Devon Archer and others."

Read more: Hunter Biden coordinated with strategists to end Ukraine probes

Shokin further said that he believes both Joe and Hunter Biden were bribed in connection with the case, but he did not provide any evidence to support this claim.

"I do not want to deal in unproven facts, but my firm personal conviction is that, yes, this was the case," he added. "They were being bribed. And the fact that Joe Biden gave away $1 billion in US money in exchange for my dismissal, my firing – isn’t that alone a case of corruption?"

White House spokesperson Ian Sams responded to Fox News with the following: "For years, these false claims have been debunked, and no matter how much air time Fox gives them, they will remain false."

"Fox is giving a platform for these lies to a former Ukrainian prosecutor general whose office his own deputy called ‘a hotbed of corruption,’ drawing demands for reform not only from then-Vice President Biden but also from US diplomats, international partners, and Republican senators like Ron Johnson."

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In 2018, Joe Biden said that he had pressured then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire Viktor Shokin, the country's prosecutor general, because Shokin was not investigating corruption.

Biden said that he had told Ukrainian officials that the US would withhold $1 billion in aid money if Shokin was not fired.

"I said, 'Nah, I’m not going to – 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.'" Biden said during a January 2018 event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations.

"I said, 'I'm telling you, you’re not getting the $1 billion.'"

"I said, 'You’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here,'" Biden continued.

"I looked at them and said, 'I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money.' Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."

Read more: Congress prepares to impeach Biden: House Speaker McCarthy

Shokin alleged to Fox News that Burisma Holdings, the energy company on whose board Hunter Biden served, illegally produced, sold, and utilized natural gas supplies.

Hunter Biden joined Burisma in 2014 and left in 2019 when his term on the board expired.

Shokin's investigation into Burisma Holdings took place while Hunter was still a member of the company's board of directors.

Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's former business partner who also served on Burisma's board, testified in a closed-door hearing of the House Oversight Committee in July that Burisma executives turned to Hunter for help when they were under pressure from Shokin's office and other entities investigating the company.

Archer said that Hunter called Washington DC to try to get Shokin fired.

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