$6m Bribe Attempt in Ukraine to Stop Biden/Burisma Corruption Probe
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Bloomberg
Top anti-graft officials in Ukraine were offered a $6-million bribe to close a case against ex-official Mykola Zlochevsky, who is also the owner of gas company Burisma Holdings, the company that was at the center of the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Three people have been detained as a part of a criminal investigation opened on June 3 into the bribery attempt, Artem Sytnyk, the head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau said at a press conference on Saturday. The suspects include two people associated with Zlochevsky, a former minister of environmental protection under then-President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia in February 2014 after mass protests. Zlochevsky’s whereabouts are unknown.
At the press conference, agents from the anti-corruption agency displayed huge plastic bags filled with bundles of U.S. dollars that were used to pay Sytnyk and a colleague who had pretended they had closed the probe. They then ordered the arrest of the suspects who were trying to get the agency to drop a case related to bank fraud, unrelated to Burisma, that involved Zlochevsky, Sytnyk said.
“Tomorrow is Zlochevsky’s birthday. So, the plan was to get the best possible outcome -– to close the criminal proceedings and ensure the return of Mr. Zlochevsky to Ukraine,” Sytnyk said.
In 2014, Ukraine opened criminal cases against Zlochevsky, including cases linked to Burisma, where Joe Biden’s son sat on the board and received substantial compensation. President Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives over his efforts to get Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Biden’s role in Burisma to try to harm Joe Biden’s chances of victory in the November elections.
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The Bidens “are not mentioned in today’s case,” the head of anti-corruption prosecutors Nazar Kholodnytskyi said at the same press event. A year ago, then Ukrainian prosecutor-general, Yuriy Lutsenko, said there was no evidence of wrongdoing by either Joe Biden or his son Hunter.
Zlochevsky’s lawyer Petro Boyko said by phone that his client has no connection to the $6 million bribe or the people who have been detained and added that the case that prosecutors are talking about included many people. Boyko denied any wrongdoing by his client.
Burisma Group said on its website today that neither the company nor its employees are the target of statements by anti-corruption bodies today.
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"...Burisma Holdings, the company that was at the center of the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump".
No, it wasn't. Dotard's attempt to get Ukraine to open a politically-motivated bogus investigation into Joe Biden was at the center of the impeachment trial. The Democrats' impeachment articles don't mention Burisma. That was the republican/Russian conspiracy theory.
Keep ignoring facts in favor of carefully selected words. And then read the words in a completely decontextualized manner. Post-modern genius' are born!
From the article you posted... "President Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives over his efforts to get Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Biden's role in Burisma to try to harm Joe Biden's chances of victory in the November elections".
Dotard was only interested in Bursima AFTER Biden announced he was running for president. YOU keep ignoring facts.
Biden was already the nominee? Why didn't he go after Bernie?
Right, Capt. Hindsights?
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Hindsight? BWAHHHH!! When did Dotard try to extort the president of Ukraine into opening a fake investigation into Joe Biden? AFTER Biden announced he was running for the Democratic nomination. When was Dotard NOT interested in corruption in Ukraine? The entire first three years of his presidency.
When did Ukraine elect a new President that hadn't colluded with Joe Biden? Ain't context a b*tch? lol!
Quote: Long before a telephone call with Ukraine's president that prompted an impeachment inquiry, President Trump was exchanging political favors with a different Ukrainian leader, who desperately sought American help for his country's struggle against Russian aggression. Petro O. Poroshenko, Ukraine's president until May, waged an elaborate campaign to win over Mr. Trump at a time when advisers had convinced Mr. Trump that Ukraine was a nest of Hillary Clinton supporters. Mr. Poroshenko’s campaign included trade deals that were politically expedient for Mr. Trump, meetings with Rudolph W. Giuliani, the freezing of potentially damaging criminal cases and attempts to use the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort as a back channel. [end quote]
Poroshenko was far more eager to collude with Dotard than Zelensky. Ukraine never elected a president that colluded with Joe Biden. Joe Biden isn't corrupt. Whereas a lot of foreign leaders know as soon as they talk to Dotard that corruption is his game and they're expected to do him "favors".
Poroshenko didn't fire the Ukrainian Prosecutor to fulfill Joe Biden's extortion demands to protect his son's undeserved Burisma paycheck? Who knew?
No. Those who know that wasn't what happened? Everyone who hasn't been willingly duped by Putin-ordered conspiracies. Joe Biden was acting on behalf of the administration and the international community. Neither of which gave a crap about Hunter Biden.
Joe was indifferent to his sons multi-million dollar paycheck? What an irresponsible father!
No surprised that, to a Dotard supporter, not corruptly seeing to it that your offspring are enriched is being an "irresponsible father". No surprise there.
lol! Then why'd he kill the Ukrainian investigation into his son's company?
He didn't.
Then why'd the Burisma reps apologize?
OBVIOUS fake news. Did they also apologize for stealing all that money, promise to return it with interest, then ask when they should show up to start serving their prison sentences? LOL.
Obvious to who, people invested in supporting the Democratic Party? lol!
Obvious to people not wanting to be Putin's useful idiots.
Das vedanya, comrade.
I reject the Putin conspiracy theories you embrace.
lol! Who do you think Hillary got them from?
Hillary didn't get them. She rejects them. Dotard got them. And embraces them. Along with his cultists (people like you).
lol. That's not what Steele's paychecks and dossiers say.
Christopher Steele never said Dotard was "framed" and didn't collude with Russia. Christopher Steele's dossier doesn't say the DNC hack was faked or perpetrated by Ukrainians. Or than the DNC server is in Ukraine. That's all BS Dotard believes. And it came by way of Russia (some of it fed to the willing stooge Rudy G).
...all seeds planted by the dossier and its' DNC sponsor.
Quote: ...many of the allegations that form the bulk of [Christopher Steele's] intelligence memos have held up over time, or have proven to be at least partially true. [end quote]
Please, list them.
Revisiting the Trump-Russia dossier: What's right, wrong and still unclear? Updated 6:12 PM ET, Mon January 7, 2019.
1. Contacts between Trump's team and Russians.
2. Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
3. Trump's real estate dealings in Russia.
4. Potential Russian leverage on Trump.
5. Michael Flynn's paid trip to Moscow.
6. Carter Page's meetings with Russians.
All in the dossier. All proven true.
Carter Page worked for the CIA and was a paid FBI informant. Was that also in the dossier and proven true? The Mueller Report mention that fact?
What was Russias leverage over Trump.? Where's the pee tape?
They needed a dossier to know thatbTrump had real esate interests in Russia? Couldn't the DNC have read the WSJ and saved a few million?
Please. Name a single verifiable incident of collussionbetween Trump and a specic Russian. I can show you one of Obama and the then President of Russia making 'after the election' promises. "Tell Valdimir that after the election..."
You can't use something that has been publicly released as leverage. It's only useful as leverage if it's keep secret by the person holding it. Flexibility isn't collusion. Obviously Obama realized that simply cooperating with Putin would cost him votes. Even if in the interest of the United States. Why don't you tell me what the exact promise was? To sell Russia the United State's uranium? LOL!
btw, Why Carter Page Was Worth Watching? It was because "there's plenty of evidence that the former Trump campaign adviser... was on suspiciously good terms with Russia". I suppose the FBI was just supposed to ignore the fact that he was interacting with Russian spies? That Carter Page worked for the CIA and was a paid FBI informant is past tense. People like him have never flipped?
He sold it.
The FBI was didn't know in 2016 that Carter Page was an FBI informant who had testified against Russian Spies in 2015? lol!
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