Report: Judge orders Joe Biden listed as alleged perpetrator of crime
Ruling cites demands that prosecutor be fired
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Published May 20, 2020 at 11:45am
Joe Biden (MSNBC video screenshot)
A judge in Ukraine has ordered that presumptive Democratic presidential
nominee Joe Biden be listed as the alleged perpetrator of a crime in the
firing of the state prosecutor who was investigating the company that paid
Hunter Biden to serve on its board
John Solomon of Just the News reports
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judge-orders-joe-biden-be-list
in Kiev late last month ordered the nation's law-enforcement services
formally to list the fired prosecutor, Victor Shokin, as the victim of an
alleged crime.
According to an official English translation of the ruling obtained by
Solomon, the alleged crime was by "the former U.S. vice president."
WND previously reported Ukraine launched a criminal case against Biden
alleging he pressured authorities to force the resignation of Shokin. The
Interfax-Ukraine news agency, quoting Shokin's lawyer, reported
<https://en.interfax.com.ua/ne
Bureau of Investigations opened the case under an appeal by Shokin.
Shokin's lawyer, Oleksandr Teleshetsky, said at a press conference Feb. 27
that the charge is interfering in the work of an official of a law
enforcement agency.
Shokin included Biden's name in his motion, which prompted the opening of
the case, Interfax said. But the investigation itself mentions only a "U.S.
citizen."
Biden is on video, at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting, boasting that
he got Ukraine's president to fire Shokin by threatening to withhold $1
billion in U.S. aid:
The order from the judge to list Biden is the "new legal twist" in the
"infamous story," Just the News explained.
"The court had previously ordered the Prosecutor General's Office and the
State Bureau of Investigations in February to investigate Shokin's claim
that he was fired in spring 2016 under pressure from Biden because he was
investigating Burisma Holdings, the natural gas company where Biden's son
Hunter worked," Just the News said.
Subsequently, the court ruled there was enough evidence to investigate
Shokin's allegation that Biden's pressure on then-President Petro Poroshenko
was unlawful interference in Shokin's work.
Law enforcement agencies declined to publicly name Biden as the alleged
perpetrator and only said it was an unnamed America.
Vovk rejected that, ruling "a competent person of the Office of the
Prosecutor General of Ukraine who conducts procedural management in criminal
proceedings No. 62020000000000236 dated February 24, 2020 to enter
information into the Unified register of pre-trial investigations
... a summary of facts that may indicate the commission of a criminal
offense under Paragraph 2 of Article 343 of the Criminal procedure code of
Ukraine on criminal proceedings No. 62020000000000236 dated February 24,
2020, namely: information on interference in the activities of the former
Prosecutor General of Ukraine Shokin, Viktor Mykolaiovych performed by
citizen of the United States of America Joseph Biden, former U.S. Vice
President."
Just the News reported a lawyer for Shokin, Oleksandr Ivanovych
Teleshetskyi, said officials have yet to comply with the court order.
The lawyer told the publication: "Viktor Shokin publicly appealed to the
president of Ukraine with a request to properly respond to illegal inaction
in the investigation of criminal cases that are open against Joseph Biden.
Let me remind you that they were discovered precisely as a result of the
statement of Viktor Shokin."
The Biden-Ukraine conflict of interest was at the center of the partisan
impeachment of President Trump. Trump's request in a July 2019 telephone
call that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky look into the matter was
deemed an abuse of power by House Democrats who voted to impeach the
president. The White House argued Hunter Biden's profting of more than $3
million from a corrupt Ukrainian company while his father was in charge of
U.S.-Ukraine policy was a legitimate concern.
Just the News reported Shokin "has alleged in a court affidavit he was told
he was fired because he refused to stand down his investigation of alleged
corruption by Burisma and after he planned to call Hunter Biden as a witness
to question him about millions of dollars in payments his American firm
received from the Ukraine gas company."
This week, Ukrainian parliamentarian Andrii Derkach released audio
recordings alleged to be conversations between Poroshenko and Biden. Among
them are purported discussions about Biden's successful effort to pressure
Poroshenko to fire Shokin while he was investigating the company for which
son Hunter Biden served as a board member.
Derkach, reported RT.com
<https://www.rt.com/news/48913
obtained the audio from investigative journalists who claimed Poroshenko
personally recorded the calls. The recordings have not been independently
verified, the Russian news outlet said.
In one call, Poroshenko tells Biden he has "good news," saying that on the
previous day he went to Shokin's office and asked him to resign. One hour
later, the country's top prosecutor delivered his letter of resignation.
"Great!" Biden replies.
See a video of the presentation of the phone calls obtained by Ukrainian
parliamentarian Andrii Derkach:
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