Posted on 05/21/2020 9:29:29 AM PDT by bitt
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Wednesday that prosecutors have opened a criminal inquiry into leaked tapes that allegedly feature the country's former leader discussing conditions for a $1 billion loan with former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.
The tapes, which are yet to be authenticated, were released on Tuesday by Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Derkach, who long has aired unsubstantiated corruption accusations against Biden and his son, who used to serve on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
The recordings don't appear to contain anything that would incriminate Biden or his son and were seen by some observers as a political effort to help U.S. President Donald Trump's reelection bid.
The Ukrainian investigation was opened on treason and abuse of office charges, indicating it was mostly directed against former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Poroshenko rejected the tapes as a fabrication by pro-Russian forces in Ukraine.
There was no immediate sign that the probe could be directed against Biden. The Prosecutor General’s Office gave no further details.
Trump last year pressured Zelenskiy to investigate the Bidens in a phone call that triggered his impeachment.
Zelenskiy, who carefully avoided taking sides in the U.S. impeachment inquiry, said his predecessor could be in trouble over the tapes.
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news is leaking out....
More like a slow drip.
But, it is said...patience is a virtue and a sign of strength.
Trump last year pressured Zelenskiy to investigate the Bidens in a phone call that triggered his impeachment.
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F’g lie.
Any chance of extraditing Joe and/or Hunter to Ukraine to face justice?
What was so important that Poroshenko had to call Biden while he was in another State? I believe it was Minnesota, because Biden says he wished he wasn’t there, but with Poroshenko instead. It was obviously a pressing issue for Poroshenko, so much so, that he tracked Biden down to give him the news. I listened to the taped call, and Poroshenko said he had good news, and bad news. He started with the good news about finally getting Shotkin’s resignation, but I don’t believe he ever got to the bad news...not on the taped call I heard.
The “Russian Collusion” story with no beginning, and apparently, no end either.
Even the average Russian may be saying;
Dostatchno! or Enough!
Started by two (corrupt?) Ukrainian politicians in 2002 as an energy company, it was bought out in 2011 by a firm in Cyprus.
Also in 2011, one of the two politicians happened to be killed in an auto accident. (Or "accident". Nothing to see here. Move along.)
In 2014-2016, the Board Members of Cyprus-held Burisma included:
The Ukrainian daughter of the "surviving" politician...
a former President of Poland (who had his own corruption charges)...
American Hunter Biden (who doesn't know Ukrainian, and has no energy experience)...
American James Cofer Black (a CIA director who quit when he was caught in the 2008 Blackwater scandal, he was the director of the private firm giving illegal payments to Iraqi officials... so, you know, he had job experience for what Burisma is actually doing)...
American Devon Archer (a senior advisor to the John Kerry Presidential campaign)...
British citizen Alan Apter (who is apparently a bundler for the Clinton Foundation)...
Cypriot citizen Riginos Charalampous (has an Associateship in Accountancy from Sheffield Hallam University, in England)...
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and my favorite member, in 2014 they appointed 24-year old Russian girl Christina Sofocleous (admitted to the Bar in Cyprus, now 30, still on the board)...
And so that makes 1 Ukrainian relative, 1 Russian hottie, 1 Cypriot accountant, and 4 Americans/Brits with ties to corruption and the DNC elites...
and with that collection of stellar leaders, we get:
In 2014, the UK started a money laundering investigation into Burisma... which was dropped in 2015 when the (corrupt?) Ukrainian prosecutor general's office "failed to provide documents" needed for the investigation... (In September 2015, Obama's U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt gave a speech in which he called out Ukrainian prosecutors for failing to cooperate with the investigation.)
In 2016, former Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko accused Burisma subsidiaries of conspiracy and tax evasion of about US$70 million. Tax audit of Esko-Pivnich by the State Fiscal Service found some violations. In total, Burisma paid additional US$7.44 million of taxes to avoid further criminal proceedings.
In 2017, Joe Biden did his billion-dollar extortion scheme, got the above-mentioned Prosecutor Lutsenko fired, and that investigation into Burisma suddenly folded.
By 2019, the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine and National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) have conducted in total 15 investigations on Burisma's owner Zlochevsky. Prosecutor General Ruslan Riaboshapka announced in October that all 15 Burisma investigation cases will be reviewed.
And therefore, ANY investigation into this sparklingly clean company is clearly a plot to help President Trump defeat his opponent in the US election, because the name Biden was on the board of a Ukraine firm until 2019.
Ahem.
It's starting... just wait til Trump starts his second term - the flood gates will be opened.
American James Cofer Black (a CIA director who quit when he was caught in the 2008 Blackwater scandal, he was the director of the private firm giving illegal payments to Iraqi officials... so, you know, he had job experience for what Burisma is actually doing)...
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don’t forget that Cofer Black was director of security for mitturd’s campaign.
so, waiting for the pierre delecto connoection to drip out
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