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...Trump later alleged it was this that caused Joe Biden, then-vice president, to push in 2016 for the firing of Ukraine’s prosecutor-general Viktor Shokin, who claimed he had been removed because he was investigating...
...Biden’s push for Ukraine to fire its chief prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was seen as corrupt, was part of a broader international effort that included the EU....
...Though Rudy Giuliani, Mr Trump’s personal attorney who has led efforts to dig up dirt on Mr Biden in Ukraine, has claimed that the prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, was investigating Burisma at the time of his...
...European and US officials pressed Ukraine to sack Viktor Shokin, the country’s former prosecutor-general, months before Joe Biden, the former US vice-president, personally intervened to force his removal...
...One is Viktor Shokin, who stepped down as general prosecutor in 2016....
...Viktor Shokin, prosecutor-general until 2016, then claimed Mr Biden pressured Ukraine to sack him by threatening to withhold $1bn in vital security assistance because of a probe into Burisma....
...The chief agitators on the Ukrainian side of this effort were some of those same corrupt former prosecutors I had encountered, particularly Yuriy Lutsenko and Viktor Shokin....
...Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor, was subsequently fired by then president Petro Poroshenko....
...Mr Trump and his associates claim Mr Biden threatened to withhold $1bn in financing to Ukraine while he was vice-president to force the ousting of Viktor Shokin....
...In addition to the Hyde messages, the batch of documents also suggest that Mr Giuliani was trying to secure a visa for Viktor Shokin, Ukraine’s former prosecutor-general, after US authorities had denied...
...Democrats argue the prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, was pushed out because he was not doing enough to tackle corruption....
...Shokin, in order to thwart an investigation of Burisma, an energy company where the younger Mr Biden earned $50,000 a month as a board member despite an apparent lack of experience....
...Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s pro-western president, caved into western pressure earlier this year by sacking general prosecutor Viktor Shokin, a loyalist who was criticized for preserving cronyism by stonewalling...
...The US had openly urged Mr Poroshenko to sack Viktor Shokin, who had failed to prosecute a single member of the Yanukovich regime or the post-revolutionary elite....
...In explaining his decision and pointing the blame at General Prosecutor Viktor Shokin, Kasko said: The General Prosecutor’s Office has become a dead institution, the independence of which nobody believes...
...But before Viktor Shokin was dismissed, he sacked his reformist deputy David Sakvarelidze, reports Ukrainian Pravda....
...Signalling readiness for an apparent trade-off, Mr Poroshenko said he had directly asked Viktor Shokin, a loyalist criticised by activists and Kiev’s western backers for stonewalling investigations and reforms...
...He asked chief general prosecutor Viktor Shokin, a loyalist criticised by activists and Kiev’s western backers for stonewalling investigations and reforms, to step down....
...So far, the most significant change on the ground since the crisis deepened may well be yesterday’s sacking of Viktor Shokin, the Poroshenko-backed prosecutor general whose resignation was demanded by the...
...The president has come under pressure at home and internationally for refusing to replace a long-time loyalist, Viktor Shokin, as chief prosecutor....
...The president has come under pressure for refusing to fire Viktor Shokin, the chief prosecutor and a longtime Poroshenko loyalist....
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