The fruit that was born out of the Shampeachment hearings looks like it is beginning to ripen. The Ukraine State Bureau of Investigations has began a criminal investigation into Joe Biden's alleged pressure of forcing the resignation of Prosecutor General, Viktor Shokin.
Shokin is responsible for this investigation. He has filed an appeal and in his motion he talked about the pressure put on him by the former Vice President.
Reported by Interfax Ukraine, Ukraine News Agency:
Shokin is responsible for this investigation. He has filed an appeal and in his motion he talked about the pressure put on him by the former Vice President.
Reported by Interfax Ukraine, Ukraine News Agency:
"The reason for the pressure was the investigation being conducted by the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine into grave crimes of international corruption linked with the activities of former Ecology Minister of Ukraine Mykola Zlochevsky and top managers at the Burisma company," he said.
Shokin's motion was filed with the State Bureau of Investigations back on January 28, 2020, but information about the criminal offence was added to the Unified Register of Pretrial Investigations only on February 24 after the country ordered the bureau to register the case, Teleshetsky said.