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December 18, 2019
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On November 22nd, a 100-page
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) data-dump was made by the U.S. Department of
State, to the Democratic-Party-aligned nonprofit “American Oversight,” which
had been founded in March 2017 by liberals (really by the main billionaires who
fund the Democratic Party) after the 2016 Democratic electoral defeat (to
Republican billionaires). The now Republican-headed U.S. State Department made
as difficult as possible for news-media to pick up on and report about the
contents of this dump; they did this by providing only a photographic image of
each page, impossible on most systems to do any “Edit” “Find”; and also
impossible to perform any “Edit” “Copy” “Paste” of any quotation from the
document. Consequently, I made the first copy of that document to the Web
Archive, in order to expedite its coming onscreen, and I am herewith pasting
below an extended passage in the document, which I then manually transcribed
from it, where President Trump’s lawyer Rudolphe Giuliani, on January 23, 25,
and 26, took depositions from both Viktor Shokin, whom Joe Biden had forced in
April 2016 to be fired as Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, and also from Yuriy
Lutsenko, who replaced Shokin and thereby freed-up from the Obama
Administration in 2016 a one-billion-dollar donation from America’s taxpayers
to the then-recently-installed-by-Obama anti-Russian Government of Ukraine.
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Shokin/Lutsenko Notes
U.S. Department of State
January 23, 2019
445 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
U.S. Department of State
January 23, 2019
445 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Shokin:
On January 23, 2019, a
telephone interview with Mr. Viktor Shokin the former General Prosecutor of
Ukraine was conducted. Present in the New York location were: Rudolph Giuliani,
Mr. Igor Fruman, Mr. Lev Parnas and Mr. George Boyle. The conversation was
conducted through the use of two (2) interpreters one (1) in Ukraine and one
(1) Lev Parnas in New York. The sum and substance of the conversation are as
follows:
Mr. Shokin stated that he
was appointed to the position of General Prosecutor of Ukraine from 2015 until
April of 2016 when he was removed at the request of Mr. Joseph Biden the Vice
President of the United States. Mr. Shokin was a Deputy Prosecutor prior to
becoming the General Prosecutor. He became involved in a case against Mr.
Mykola Zlochevsky the former Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of
Ukraine. The case was opened as a result of Mr. Zlochevsky giving
himself/company permits to drill for gas and oil in Ukraine. Mr. Zlochevsky is
also the owner of Burisma Holdings, which is a corporation registered in
Cyprus. Mr. Shokin stated that there are documents that list five (5) criminal
cases in which Mr. Zlochevsky is listed, with the main case being for issuing
illegal gas exploration permits. The following
complaints are in the criminal case.
- Mr.
Zlochevsky was laundering money
- Obtained assets by corrupt acts bribery
- Mr. Zlochevsky removed approximately twenty three
million U.S. dollars out of Ukraine without permission
- While seated as the Minister he approved two
addition[al] entities to receive permits for gas exploration
- Mr. Zlochevsky was the owner of two secret
companies that were part of Burisma Holdings and gave those companies
permits which made it possible for him to profit while he was the sitting
Minister
The above cases were closed
after Mr. Zlochevsky was dismissed from the Ministry.
Mr. Shokin further stated
that there were several Burisma board appointees [that] were made in 2014 as
follows:
- Hunter Biden son of Vice President Joseph Biden
- Joseph Blade former CIA employee assigned to
Anti-Terrorist Unit
- Aleksander Kwasnieski former President of Poland
- Devon Archer roommate to Christopher Heinz the
step-son of Mr. John Kerry United States Secretary of State
Mr. Shokin stated that these
appointments were made by Mr. Zlochevsky in order to protect himself.
Mr. Zlochevsky left Ukraine
while the above mentioned cases were open.
Mr. Shokin stated that the
investigations stopped out of fear of the United States. Mr. Shokin attempted
to continue the investigations but on or around June or July of 2015 the U.S.
Ambassador Geoffrey R. Pyatt told him that the investigation has to be handled
with white gloves, which, according to Mr. Shokin, implied to do nothing. On or
about September 2015, Mr. Pyatt gave a speech in Odessa where he stated that
the cases were not investigated correctly and that Mr. Shokin may be corrupt.
Mr. Shokin stated that in
2014 Mr. Zlochevsky was in the UK and that the twenty three million dollars
were frozen in the UK in the BNP Bank. Mr. Shokin stated that false documents
were prepared and the money was released so Mr. S[sp]lochevski before Mr.
Shokin took office. That release of the money made Mr. Shokin look into the
above cases again. Mr. Shokin stated that there were several articles written
about bribes being taken during the investigation of the cases. The bribes were
an effort to have the cases closed. On April of 2016 Mr. Shokin was dismissed
as the General Prosecutor of Ukraine. In November of 2016 the cases were closed
by the current Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko.
Mr. Shokin further stated
that on February of 2016 warrants were placed on the accounts of multiple
people in Ukraine. There were requests for information on Hunter Biden to which
nothing was received. It is believed that Hunter Biden receives a salary,
commission, plus one million dollars. Mr. Shokin stated he was warned to stop
by Ambassador Geoffrey R. Pyatt. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko told Mr.
Shokin not to investigate Burisma as it was not in the interest of Joe and/or
Hunter Biden. Mr. Shokin was called into Mr. Poroshenko’s office and told that
the investigation into Burisma and the Managing Director where Hunter Biden is
on the board, has caused Joe Biden to hold up one billion dollars in U.S. aid
to Ukraine.
Mr. Shokin stated that on or
around April of 2016 Mr. Petro Poroshenko called him and told him he had to be
fired as the aid to the Ukraine was being withheld by Joe Biden. Mr. Biden told
Mr. Poroshenko that he had evidence that Mr. Shokin was corrupt and needed to
be fired. Mr. Shokin was dismissed in April of 2016 and the U.S. aid was
delivered within one and one half months.
On a different point, Mr.
Shokin believes the current [U.S.] Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch denied his
visa to travel to the U.S. Mr. Shokin stated that she is close to Mr. Biden.
Mr. Shokin also stated that there were leaks by a person named Reshenko of the
Ukrainian State Secret Service about the Manafort Black Book. Mr. Shokin stated
that there is possible deceit in the Manafort Black Book.
End of interview.
–
January 25, 2019
445 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
445 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Yuriy Lutsenko:
On January 25, 2019, Mr.
Yuriy Lutsenko the current Prosecutor General of Ukraine was present at 445
Park Av e, New York, NY. He was present to speak about corruption in Ukraine.
He was accomapnied by Glib Zagoriy, Gyunduz Mamedov, Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman.
Also present were Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and George Boyle.
Mr. Lutsenko stated that he
is currently the Prosecutor General for Ukraine. He was the Minister of
Interior from 2007 to 2010. He further stated that he was placed in jail for
two and one half years as a political prisoner.
Mr. Lutsenko stated that his
office has the following units under his purview:
1
Police Department
- Fiscals
- Secret
Service
- Investigative
Department
Mr. Lutsenko stated that his
office has recovered several billion dollars and has had two thousand six
hundred thirty-seven [2,637] verdicts of corruption. Mr. Lutsenko went on to
explain that there is a unit called Specialized Anticorruption Prosecutors
Office (SAP) which has under its purview National Anticorruption Bureau Ukraine
(NABU) which investigates corruption cases that involve public figures from
Mayors upward. He stated that the current U.S. Ambassador protects SAP and
NABU. He feels they are good organizations but have terrible leadership. His
office has absolutely no control over SAP or NABU and can’t even ask what they
are working on, however they fall under his ‘control’.
He further state[s] that he
believes Mr. Viktor Shokin, the former Prosecutor General, is honest.
Mr. Lutsenko went on to say
that he began looking at the same case Mr. Shokin was looking at (mentioned
above) and he believes Hunter Biden receives millions of dollars in
compensation from Burisma. He produced a document from Latvia that showed
several million dollars that were distributed out of Burisma’s account. The
record showed two (2) companies and four (4) individuals receiving
approximately sixteen million dollars in disbursements, as follows [the
breakdown is shown].
Mr. Lutsenko feels that the
total disbursements can be as high as $100,000,000. …
Ambassador Pyatt gave a
speech on September 25, 2015 in Odessa against the Prosecutor Generals’ Office.
Yuriy Lutsenko Continued:
On January 26, 2019, Mr.
Yuriy Lutsenko, the current Prosecutor General of Ukraine, was present at 445
Park ave., New York, NY. …[His second day of testimony contained only one
specific mention which was not vague and which had not been indicated
previously by Shokin: A “system was set up in order to remove money from the
Ukraine, have it laundered, and then collect the laundered money. These
companies were all headed by one Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Lutsenko stated
that about twenty (20) to forty (40) of these companies were shell companies. He
further stated that there were twenty-three (23) companies located off shore,
and that two of them had approximately seven billion dollars that were placed
in the Templeton Fund. The system ran similar to a ‘pyramid’ scheme and all of
the beneficiaries were pro-Russian [which was undefined but presumably meant
associated with the pre-coup Ukrainian Government].
—
For background and context
in order to interpret those depositions, see my “Ukraine,
Trump, Biden — The Real Story Behind ‘Ukrainegate’”. Zlochevsky is actually the decoy, but the real
person who has majority-ownership of Burisma, after Zlochevsky sold to him most
of his shares in 2011, is the key Ukrainian billionaire who had backed Obama’s
February 2014 coup, Ihor Kolomoysky. And Kolomoysky is now far more interested
in recovering his bankrupt PrivatBank, Ukraine’s largest bank, than in trying
to extract the relative pittance that might still be entailed in Burisma.
Apparently, Trump hasn’t yet decided whether to continue the Obama-installed
regime in Ukraine or else to expose it and to go after both Obama and
Kolomoysky, and abandon the cover-story of Biden and Zlochevsky. If he does
decide to go after the principlals in the case, then he’ll have to expose who
were the actual principals, and who were merely their agents. Thus far, in the
American press, all of the attention has been on the agents. Given the way in
which Trump’s State Department buried the release of that data-dump, Trump has
not been eager to get the real story out there. Nor, of course, are the
Democratic Party billionaires whose “American Oversight” has likewise done
nothing to facilitate the exposure of the actual historical narrative in this
case.
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