PrivatBank was the nexus of a ton of Ukrainian corruption... the founders/owners Ihor Kolomoisky and Gennadiy Bogolyubov embezzled at least $5.5B to purchase real estate in the USA
Mar 2014
- Sec. State John Kerry offers $1B in loan guarantees to Ukraine 2-weeks after the US State Dept-sponsored regime change coup
Apr 2014
16th - Devon Archer (Hunters biz partner) meets Joe Biden @ White House
21st - Joe Biden travels to Kiev to discuss various billions in aid/loan guarantees from USA
22nd - Archer joins board of Burisma
May 13th - Hunter joins board of Burisma
June 2014
- $3.1B of IMF Loans to PrivatBank are offshored into Kolomoisky controlled shell companies
April 2015
- $1.8B+ of IMF Loans to PrivatBank are offshored into Kolomoisky controlled shell companies
Dec 2015
- Kerry tells Poroshenko that JoBiden wants prosecutor Shokin gone (Poroshenko thinks Shokin is doing good work)
Jan 2016
- Eric Ciaramella (Trump-Ukraine “whistleblower”) organizes mtg at White House w/all Ukraine prosecutors except Shokin
Feb 2016
18th - Latvian anti-money-laundering agency reports suspicious activity about Burisma to Ukraine
24th - Karen Tramontano (Bill Clinton’s chief-of-staff) emails the US State Dept to lobby for Burisma
Mar 2016
1st - Tramontano meets with State Dept staff to lobby for Burisma
2nd - Devon Archer meets with John Kerry
22nd - JoBiden “fire the Shokin or you dont get your $1B” call w/ Poroshenko
29th - Shokin removed
June 2016
- Biden $1B loan is finalized (Ciaramella is copied on all emails)
Nov 2016
1st - PrivatBank’s book of fraudulent loans is leaked
8th - Trump elected
16th - leaked JoBiden call “You need to nationalize PrivatBank to move the $$$ forward before Trump gets in office and starts asking questions. it is critically important to your economic and physical security”
Dec 2016
19th - PrivatBank is nationalized (aka Kolomoisky gets bailed out at great cost to Ukraine citizens)
Feb 2017
- Cofer Black joins Burisma board
Bank statement April 9: $1.2 million transfer to Beverly Hills Escrow Trust.
Who dat?
And February 2014 was the Ukrainian revolution when a series of violent events involving protesters, riot police, and unknown shooters in the capital, Kyiv, culminated in the ousting of the elected Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, and the overthrow of the Ukrainian Government.
Hmmmmm.....
Thank you for that detailed timeline!
Ukrainian President Yanukovych (2010-2014) was more inclined to foster ties with Russia than the EU.
So the US (under Obama) helped finance a revolution (also known as tampering with other countries' elections) which put Poroshenko in power.
Poroshenko had a "working relationship" (shall we say) with the head of Burisma, Zlochevsky. They weren't buddies, but Poroshenko was willing to let Zlochevsky operate... until the EU started investigating.
Biden ran interference on the investigation and it was smoothed over by suggesting that really, he was doing it because the prosecutor didn't satisfy the EU. But it looks to anyone with a shred of objectivity that it had more to do with bribery, filtered through Hunter.
I found this story in THE KYIV POST:
Onyshchenko releases alleged recording implicating Poroshenko, Zlochevsky in graft
By Oleg Sukhov. Published April 20, 2018. Updated April 20 2018 at 1:19 pm
In the recording, (which is alleged to have been recorded in January 2016) Onyshchenko also says Zlochevsky was ready to “repay a debt” to Poroshenko. The person alleged to be Poroshenko replies that Zlochevsky is a “good guy” but adds that “the Americans are worried about him lately.”
Onyshchenko claimed that there would be no problems with the United States because Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski were on the board of Zlochevsky’s Burisma firm.
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So... if I understand this correctly, the Obama administration's official stance was that the US supported the Ukrainian Revolution because it moved Ukraine politically closer to "our allies" (the EU) and further from Russia.
But Biden undercut EU priorities when he interfered with the Burisma investigations either on behalf of his son, or more likely, because his son arranged the bribe.
The Obama administration helped to smooth it over by claiming the prosecutor was corrupt and it was really in support of the EU, that's the public narrative, but in private, I bet this is one of those things Joe did that made Obama not terribly fond of him. Probably one of the reasons Obama had no interest in endorsing Biden throughout the primaries.
By the way Biden occasionally throws Obama under the bus (when challenged with the "why didn't you do all these reforms 2008-2016, one of his answers was "I wasn't President"--the subtext being "Obama was, and he didn't do it") it seems that Biden and Obama have not been on the same page for a long time. Maybe never. Obama may not have wanted Biden for a running mate at all (I think this brings us to the Larry Sinclair story.)