“Joe Biden’s non-fictional stories of international corruption”: a book by former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin is published
6 February 16:45
“JOE BIDEN’S UNFICTIONARY STORIES OF INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION IN UKRAINE or Who Can’t Be President of the United States”. The book under this title is now available for sale in Ukraine, according to the YurIncomPress website , Komersant ukrainskyi 
reports .
The author of the book is Ukrainian statesman, lawyer, Prosecutor General of Ukraine (2015-2016) Viktor Shokin.
“This is a biographical book written by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin (2015-2016) about his career, complex investigative work, life risks and dangers, and the search for justice. A significant part of the book is devoted to the history of international corruption of US Vice President Joseph Biden in 2014-2016 , which was investigated by the author. In his opinion, the crimes and offenses of the US official on the territory of Ukraine are primarily related to the activities of his son Hunter on the Board of Directors of the Ukrainian company Burisma.
The author lifts the veil on the political and personal components of the relationship between the Ukrainian President and his closest associates and the US Vice President in 2015-2016. The book is filled with state and official documents, letters from top-level officials, lawsuits and court decisions that prove the author’s position. The vast majority of documents are published for the first time.
It will be of interest to a wide range of readers who are interested in the political life of Ukraine and international relations,” reads the description of the book, which is due out in 2025.
Who is Viktor Shokin?
on June 26, 2014, Shokin was appointed Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine – Head of the Main Department for Supervision in Criminal Proceedings and approved as a member of the Board of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine.
on February 11, 2015, Viktor Shokin was appointed Prosecutor General of Ukraine by President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko’s Decree No. 68/2015. He replaced Vitaliy Yarema in this position.
on February 16, 2016, Poroshenko called on the head of the GPU to resign. A few days later, it became known that the Prosecutor General had written a letter of resignation, and on February 19, a motion to dismiss Shokin from the post of Prosecutor General was submitted to the Parliament.
on March 29, 2016, the Verkhovna Rada supported the dismissal of Viktor Shokin from the post of Prosecutor General of Ukraine, and on April 3, President Poroshenko signed a decree dismissing Shokin.
As Prosecutor General, Shokin was involved in many high-profile cases. For example, in 2003 he opened a case against General Oleksiy Pukach, who was accused of murdering journalist Georgiy Gongadze, and in 2005 he opened cases against representatives of the Party of Regions, Borys Kolesnikov (head of the Donetsk regional council) and Yevhen Kushnarev (who had left the post of head of the Kharkiv region at that time), who, according to the investigation, “organized a separatist congress in Sievierodonetsk”, where the “idea of creating a South-Eastern Ukrainian Autonomous Republic” was expressed. In addition, cases against Ihor Kolomoisky were opened under Shokin’s watch.
Circumstances of Shokin’s dismissal from the post of Prosecutor General
In 2014, the son of former US Vice President Hunter Biden joined the board of the Ukrainian gas production company Burisma . During Shokin’s tenure as head of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office, the agency launched three investigations into Burisma, which is owned by former Ukrainian Minister of Natural Resources Mykola Zlochevsky. After Shokin’s resignation, some of these investigations were terminated, while others were transferred to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau. Former prosecutor Konstantin Kulik, who was investigating the Burisma case, stated “that initially Hunter Biden’s companies were involved in the case, but they eventually disappeared.”
In January 2018, Biden, speaking at the US Council on Foreign Relations, said that while serving as Vice President of the United States, he demanded that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko fire Shokin. Biden also threatened to block US guarantees for a $1 billion loan to Ukraine if the Prosecutor General is not fired.
