(Zlochevsky and the company have denied the allegations.) Shokin was ousted as prosecutor in 2016. In 2015, Ukraine’s newly appointed prosecutor general Viktor Shokin inherited some of the investigations into Zlochevsky and his company. After Yanukovych was ousted, Zlochevsky faced a variety of corruption-related investigations involving his business. Yanukovych who subsequently went into exile after a popular revolution. Firms run by Biden and Archer "pursued business with international entities that had a stake in American foreign policy decisions, sometimes in countries where connections implied political influence and protection," the New York Times reported.īiden’s Burisma directorship attracted attention because Burisma was owned by Mykola Zlochevsky, a minister under Russia-friendly President Viktor F. John Kerry, D-Mass.) and Devon Archer (a Kerry family friend) in a string of investment and consulting firms. The position with Burisma came at a time when the younger Biden had joined with Christopher Heinz (the stepson of then-Sen. The company also retained the law firm where Biden had been working, Boies Schiller Flexner. Reuters reported at the time that a statement on the company’s website said the younger Biden "would help the company with "transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion," and other issues. Hunter Biden did hold a directorship with a natural gas company called Burisma Holdings, beginning in the spring of 2014. aid to Ukraine if they didn’t fire a prosecutor looking into" the gas company? Is it true, as the image suggests, that Hunter Biden was serving as "a director to Ukraine’s largest private gas producer" when the elder Biden "threatened to withhold $1 BILLION in U.S. Just kidding! That was Joe Biden when he was VP, and his son Hunter Biden." aid to Ukraine if they didn’t fire a prosecutor looking into Don Jr.’s company. was named a director to Ukraine’s largest private gas producer following a Ukrainian visit by President Trump? Trump later threatened to withhold $1 BILLION in U.S. Here’s the text, which is accompanied by a photograph of Hunter Biden embracing his father. (Trump’s 2016 campaign chair Paul Manafort was convicted of tax and bank fraud for laundering millions in income he earned working for Ukrainian politicians.) One viral image being shared on social media used a bit of reverse psychology, asking what Americans would think if the details of this story involved the Trump family rather than the Biden family. ![]() ![]() The story has been public for years, but it received new attention with Biden running strong among 2020 Democratic presidential contenders. The episode involved his son Hunter Biden’s work on behalf of a Ukrainian energy company at a time when the elder Biden was vice president and a key figure in U.S. Shady self-dealing in the Ukraine? It’s not just the Republican side that does that, says a social media meme that makes the charge against Democrat Joe Biden. 23, 2019: This story was first published we have since published additional coverage that incorporates new developments here.
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