09-18-2023, 07:23 AM
(09-18-2023, 01:43 AM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: I can see he was protecting his own especially if he felt like he was under attack.
If he was so corrupt, why didn't they pull his bank records and find those mysterious deposits and charge him?
I can't find anywhere in the news where he was found accepting bribes.
None of the links you provided actually said why he was corrupt or gave any proof. And all articles were posted AFTER he went after Burisma owner. Which makes me say hmmmmmmmm.
His Successor though...Artem Sytnik didn't accept the bribe from Burisma's owner.. but the fact that he was offered a 6M bribe 5 years later is fishy to me. I don't think he would have been offered one if they didn't think he would accept. Not very smart to offer a bribe to they guy that's persecuting you.. just another hmmmm
Not saying he's innocent in any way, but something doesn't feel right to me.
The point here is that it counters the narrative that Biden was acting on his own. This was truly an international effort to get rid of Shokin. One of the articles mentions the head of the IMF calling for his resignation months before Biden did anything. As for his corruption, mostly the international community was saying he wasn't fulfilling his role to fight corruption. He paid lip service upon his appointment, but didn't really do anything. Here are some more contemporary articles about the issue:
https://archive.kyivpost.com/article/content/reform-watch/transparency-international-says-shokin-to-blame-for-failed-anti-corruption-efforts-401218.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/12/9/ukraine-new-government-same-corruption
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/25/money-still-rules-ukraine-poroshenko-corruption/
https://www.politico.eu/article/politics-of-corruption-kiev-west-friendly-states/
https://archive.kyivpost.com/article/content/kyiv-post-plus/shokin-resists-change-jeopardizes-visa-free-travel-to-eu-and-12-billion-of-aid-400948.html
As for the "after he started going after Burisma" comment, Shokin wasn't really going after them. He inherited an investigation into Burisma and by all accounts I can see, other than the one witness the GOP brought in and Shokin's comments, he was not really carrying out the investigation. Shokin's deputy even provided documents that backed up the idea that the investigation had been dormant. In addition, the investigation into Burisma was for activity that occurred prior to Hunter Biden's role in the company which means he was not personally at risk during that investigation.
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