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 the work of Biden’s son in the oil and gas production holding Burisma, which received the right to develop several fields in Ukraine. The Prosecutor General's Office found violations that threatened to tarnish the reputation of the Biden family.
Andriy Derkach presented audio materials, which, he claims, are recordings of telephone conversations between Joseph Baidan and Petro Poroshenko and indicate “facts of international corruption and treason at the highest state level.”
Biden demanded that Poroshenko fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who at that time was investigating the Burisma case and “reached out to Biden.” We are talking about receiving a billion dollars “in exchange for maintaining Burisma’s schemes and international corruption.”
Biden in the recordings also demanded that Poroshenko block the resignation of Arseniy Yatsenyuk from the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine and in 2016 advised the nationalization of PrivatBank until Donald Trump, who won the election, came to power in America.
“Biden flies to Kyiv to put pressure on Pyotr Alekseevich regarding Shokin. “Biden has ... a weighty argument in his pocket ... 1 billion credit guarantees ... this is the price of saving Biden from prison,” Derkach said.
According to him, the billion dollars received was used to fulfill military government orders by enterprises related to Poroshenko.
“These conversations clearly show... Biden ruled Ukraine,” Andriy Derkach said.
It is interesting that earlier information had already appeared in the media that Shokin himself had already transferred information to the Trump headquarters about Biden’s interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine.
Biden is Trump's election rival.
True, ex-Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Renat Kuzmin does not believe that the information released by Derkach will lead to the punishment of Petro Poroshenko for treason.
"What will happen next? Next, an operation will be carried out to save Poroshenko from prison. How? It’s very simple: Zelensky will instruct the SBU and the GPU to conduct an investigation and find out who, how and for what purpose recorded Poroshenko and Biden. They'll open a case. The investigation will be critically delayed. All evidence will be buried. Derkach will be called a Kremlin agent working for Trump’s second term. A case will be opened against Derkach,” Kuzmin describes the scenario for Poroshenko’s rescue.
“The mono-majority will push through a resolution in the Rada to condemn Russia, which staged another provocation “with the aim of destabilizing the situation in Ukraine and attacking the US Democratic Party.” As a result, Putin will be blamed for everything. Why? Because Ukraine is led by international swindlers who, in collusion with Ukrainian oligarchs, seized power in the country with the aim of plundering it with impunity. Both Poroshenko and Zelensky are their accomplices,” explains the ex-deputy prosecutor general.