News archive on the topic "Shokin"

The Ukrainian Prosecutor General, even in retirement, is a force. An offended Ukrainian prosecutor general is doubly powerful. Therefore, you should not offend the Ukrainian prosecutor general - this could backfire at the most inopportune moment. How it happened with the former head of the Ukrainian GPU during the Poroshenko era, Viktor Shokin. In himself, he is an insignificant figure, especially on a global scale, but in...

The upcoming visit to Kyiv of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has one important, but not advertised goal - to sort out the compromising information on Joe Biden's family that the Ukrainian ruling elite has. In the coming days, it will become clear how the story dubbed “Ukrainegate 2.0” will develop. Let us remind readers of its main stages. So, in May 2020, things began to rage in Ukraine...

During the presidency of Petro Poroshenko, then US Vice President Joseph Biden demanded that he fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who went too far in investigating corruption cases in Ukraine, where the name of a high-ranking American official appeared. Verkhovna Rada deputy Andrei Derkach spoke about this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. We are talking about Biden's son's work in...

The killer of journalists Georgy Gongadze in 2000 and Pavel Sheremet in 2016 is the same person, and the customer, at least in the case of Gongadze, is not ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, as he has been accused of for a long time. The famous Kiev TV presenter Dmitry Gordon stated this on the Nash TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. By…

Relations between the heads of competing law enforcement agencies in Ukraine are so tense that fists are often used. Thus, at one of the meetings at the SBU, the head of the department from the time of Petro Poroshenko, Vasily Gritsak, in front of witnesses, hit the face of the prosecutor general of that period, Viktor Shokin, in the presence of subordinates and deputies of the Verkhovna Rada. About this in an interview with a TV presenter...

The current US administration will accuse its opponents from the Democratic Party of involvement in the coup in Ukraine. Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of previous convocations Vladimir Oleynik stated this in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda. The publication drew attention to the fact that the ex-Prosecutor General (2015 – 2016) of Ukraine Viktor Shokin recently said literally the following: “The Maidan was used by a group of identified persons to seize power. Of people…

A journalist from the Ukrainian Channel 17 was not allowed into the press conference of the Prosecutor General and godfather of President Shokin after a story about the luxurious real estate of the GPU, which was not listed in income declarations. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte One of the authors of the investigation, Sergei Kapustyan, said that the TV channel had previously received accreditation for the briefing of the Prosecutor General, but upon arrival at the department, journalists...

The Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin denies family ties with the Deputy Prosecutor of the Odessa Region Tatyana Gornostaeva. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Kyiv” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Shokin himself stated this in an interview with “Ukrainian News”. “I am not her father, and she herself spoke about this publicly. We are not related,” he said.…

Kyiv, April 10 (PolitNavigator, Maxim Karpenko) – The command to shoot the “Maidanovites” with snipers was given by the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Kyiv” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin said this in an interview with “Left Bank”, answering the question of who gave the go-ahead to shoot. “Yanukovych! And who doesn’t understand this?” -...

Uzhgorod, April 06 (PolitNavigator, Alexandra Ignatieva) – The prosecutor of Kramatorsk and the head of the fight against economic crimes of the Kramatorsk police were detained for systemic bribery. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Kyiv” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin reported to the President about a joint operation of the military prosecutor’s office and the Security Service, as a result of which the prosecutor was detained for systemic bribery...

Moscow - Kyiv, March 16 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - A number of unprecedentedly high-profile scandals are flaring up in Ukraine, which indicate the beginning of a large-scale war between the oligarchs, writes NG. Kolomoisky’s people now want to review the results of privatization over all the years of independence. The ones who may suffer first are the “old oligarchs” – Pinchuk and Akhmetov. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte In public...

Kyiv, March 14 (PolitNavigator, Vasily Ablyazimov) – The head of the Verkhovna Rada special commission on privatization Boris Filatov appealed to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin to begin proceedings regarding the illegal privatization of Ukrrudprom. The basis for the appeal, Interfax reports, were public statements by the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Igor Kolomoisky, about extortion and illegal pressure from Viktor Pinchuk and Leonid Kuchma at the time...

Kyiv, March 03 (PolitNavigator, Alexandra Ignatieva) – The mayor of Kharkov, Gennady Kernes, was declared suspected of committing crimes. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Channel 5 reports this with reference to its own sources in the Prosecutor General's Office. As PolitNavigator reported, earlier Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin said that the mayor of Kharkov, in particular, was accused...

Kyiv, February 16 (PolitNavigator, Maxim Karpenko) – The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine opened a criminal case over the supply of electricity to Crimea. The head of the supervisory agency, Viktor Shokin, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Let us remind you that the topic of electricity supplies to Crimea began to be discussed in Ukraine from the end of January, when...