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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4645243" data-attributes="member: 54375">&quot;There was no pressure from anyone from the United States&quot; to close the case against Zlochevskiy, Vitaliy Kasko, who was a deputy prosecutor-general under Shokin and is now first deputy prosecutor-general, told <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-07/timeline-in-ukraine-probe-casts-doubt-on-giuliani-s-biden-claim" target="_blank">Bloomberg News in May.</a> &quot;It was shelved by Ukrainian prosecutors in 2014 and through 2015,&quot; he added.Activists say the case had been sabotaged by Shokin himself. As an example, they say two months before Hunter Biden joined Burisma&#039;s board, British authorities had requested information from Shokin&#039;s office as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering by Zlochevskiy. Shokin ignored them.Kaleniuk and AntAC published a detailed timeline of events surrounding the Burisma case, an outline of evidence suggesting that three consecutive chief prosecutors of Ukraine -- first Shokin’s predecessor, then Shokin, and then his successor -- worked to bury it.&quot;Ironically, Joe Biden asked Shokin to leave because the prosecutor failed [to pursue] the Burisma investigation, not because Shokin was tough and active with this case,&quot; Kaleniuk said.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4645243, member: 54375"] "There was no pressure from anyone from the United States" to close the case against Zlochevskiy, Vitaliy Kasko, who was a deputy prosecutor-general under Shokin and is now first deputy prosecutor-general, told [B][URL='https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-07/timeline-in-ukraine-probe-casts-doubt-on-giuliani-s-biden-claim']Bloomberg News in May.[/URL][/B] "It was shelved by Ukrainian prosecutors in 2014 and through 2015," he added. Activists say the case had been sabotaged by Shokin himself. As an example, they say two months before Hunter Biden joined Burisma's board, British authorities had requested information from Shokin's office as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering by Zlochevskiy. Shokin ignored them. Kaleniuk and AntAC published a detailed timeline of events surrounding the Burisma case, an outline of evidence suggesting that three consecutive chief prosecutors of Ukraine -- first Shokin’s predecessor, then Shokin, and then his successor -- worked to bury it. "Ironically, Joe Biden asked Shokin to leave because the prosecutor failed [to pursue] the Burisma investigation, not because Shokin was tough and active with this case," Kaleniuk said. [/QUOTE]

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