Sep 26

Sep 26 Document: Ukraine's ex-top cop said Burisma was the reason for his firing

By Tatiana Prophet
editor@back2facts.com

Chief Prosecutor Viktor Shokin in February 2016.

A reporter and founding board member for news web site The Hill has posted on Scribd an affidavit signed Sept. 4, 2019, by former Chief Prosecutor Viktor Shokin of Ukraine, stating the details of his departure from the top cop position in April 2016 after pressure from then-president Joe Biden. John Solomon posted the document on Scribd.

In it, Shokin details meddling by the United States into Ukraine’s justice system, specifically trying to prevent a Ukrainian oligarch from returning home as well as pressuring then-President Petro Poroshenko to fire his former ally on false pretenses.

By contrast, a reporter for the Washington Post was able to run across Shokin’s replacement at a hotel in Kyiv. Yuriy Lutsenko’s interview yielded the enlightening headline: “Former Ukraine prosecutor says Hunter Biden ‘did not violate anything.’ “ The article reveals that Lutsenko actually met with Trump attorney and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani in New York City in January while on vacation with his son, he reportedly told the Post. He had previously “cast doubt” on the younger Biden’s actions in Ukraine, stated the Post today, citing no sources.

The Washington Post included a lot of background in the article about Donald Trump, but left out Lutsenko’s own history, which included being jailed for allegedly improper surveillance of suspects in a poisoning case, in a situation that seems to suggest political retribution. He was pardoned in 2013 by President Viktor Yanukovich, a Russia-friendly Ukrainian president who was ousted in 2014 in the Euromaidan uprising.

Read the Shokin statement here:

Shokin Statement by JohnSolomon on Scribd

Yuriy Lutsenko, the prosecutor who replaced Viktor Shokin after Shokin was let go under pressure from the United States.

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Tatiana Prophet

Tatiana is an award-winning journalist living in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Medill School of Journalism, she started her career in Atlanta in 2001, covering Latino issues and immigration. She spent the next few years as a section editor for Atlanta Business Chronicle. After moving back home to Southern California, Tatiana covered the city of Victorville for the Daily Press and pioneered their nightly web cast. During the early years of the Obama administration, she wrote for China Daily USA as their freelance correspondent for Southern California. Prophet spent four years as a singer-songwriter in Los Angeles, playing the Viper Room Acoustic Lounge as well as the House of Blues Voodoo Lounge, plus regular appearances at TRiP Santa Monica. In 2016, Prophet started Back to Facts, realizing that fake news of all kinds would prove a formidable enemy in the years to come.

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