{"id":2013547,"date":"2023-08-27T12:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T16:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-ukrainian-prosecutor-viktor-shokin-dismisses-corruption-allegations-against-him\/"},"modified":"2023-08-27T12:46:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T16:46:54","slug":"former-ukrainian-prosecutor-viktor-shokin-dismisses-corruption-allegations-against-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-ukrainian-prosecutor-viktor-shokin-dismisses-corruption-allegations-against-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin denies corruption claims."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-ukrainian-prosecutor-viktor-shokin-dismisses-corruption-allegations-against-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2013547&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin Denies Corruption Allegations<\/h2>\n<p>In an interview with Fox \u2062News&#8217;s Brian Kilmeade, former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin vehemently denied allegations of corruption against him,\u200c dismissing them as baseless. Shokin claimed that he was fired \u2062in 2016 under \u2063pressure from then-Vice \u2064President Joe Biden\u2062 due to his investigation of Burisma, a \u2062company on which Hunter Biden served on the board. However, Shokin&#8217;s dismissal has been attributed to corruption by various media outlets, international watchdogs, and\u200c even fellow Ukrainian prosecutors.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenging the Accusations<\/h3>\n<p>Kilmeade confronted Shokin with some of these allegations\u2062 during the interview, but Shokin\u2062 dismissed them\u200d without hesitation. When \u200cpresented with \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-spends-2-years-investigating-former-wh-physician-finds-hes-a-bad-boss-drinks-beer-sleeps-on-planes\/\" title=\"Pentagon Spends 2 Years Investigating Former WH Physician, Finds He\u2019s A Bad Boss, Drinks Beer, Sleeps On Planes\">reports accusing<\/a> him of corruption from reputable publications such as the Washington Post, Washington Times, and Wall Street\u2062 Journal, Shokin responded, &#8220;I would appreciate if any of\u200b these \u2062highly respectable publications could come up with a single instance or a single example of \u200cmy personal corruption or any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-ukrainian-prosecutor-viktor-shokin-dismisses-corruption-allegations-against-him\/\" title=\"Ex-Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin denies corruption claims.\">offense whatsoever allegedly committed<\/a> by me. Since I was fired,\u200c nobody, including Joe \u200dBiden, has cited or mentioned\u200d or provided\u2064 any examples \u2062of my corruption or any offense allegedly committed by\u2064 me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kilmeade then questioned why Shokin hadn&#8217;t sued the outlets \u200bfor defamation if the allegations \u200dwere untrue. Shokin \u200dexplained, &#8220;I would gladly [sue for defamation]. But suing somebody costs money, and I simply don&#8217;t have the money to do that because I am a retiree, and my monthly pension constitutes the equivalent of $800.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shokin also emphasized that during\u2064 his tenure, \u200bthere were no complaints or problems with his performance on the job.<\/p>\n<h3>The \u2062White House&#8217;s\u2063 Response<\/h3>\n<p>The White House swiftly \u200bcondemned \u200bShokin&#8217;s allegations, asserting that Biden had him fired over his investigation into Burisma due to Shokin&#8217;s own corruption. White House \u2062spokesman Ian Sams stated, &#8220;For years, these false\u200d claims have been debunked, and no matter how much air time Fox gives them, they will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/celine-ryan-ciccio-pulitzer-center-recruits-college-students-to-develop-1619-project-afterschool-program-for-children\/\" title=\"Celine Ryan Ciccio: Pulitzer Center Recruits College Students to Develop \"1619 Project\" Afterschool Program for Children\">remain false<\/a>. Fox is giving a platform for these \u2063lies to a former \u2064Ukrainian prosecutor general whose \u200boffice his own deputy called &#8216;a hotbed of corruption,&#8217; drawing demands for reform not \u200conly from\u200c then-Vice President Biden but also from U.S. diplomats, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-officials-missionaries-evacuated-from-niger-as-military-seizes-power\/\" title=\"U.S. officials, missionaries flee Niger as military takes control.\">international\u2062 partners<\/a>, and Republican\u200d senators like\u2063 Ron Johnson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even Shokin&#8217;s\u200d own deputy, Vitaly Kasko, spoke out against him, \u2062alleging that Shokin took no action in cases against a former government minister who indirectly controlled Burisma. Kasko resigned from his position in 2016, describing \u200cthe office as a &#8220;hotbed of corruption&#8221; and\u2063 a hindrance to foreign investment in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The White House also \u200chighlighted claims\u2063 that Shokin was not actively investigating Burisma at\u200d the time of his dismissal. Daria Kaleniuk, \u2062a prominent Ukrainian activist, stated in 2016, &#8220;Shokin was not investigating Biden. There were several \u200ccases into Burisma and Zlochevsky, but Shokin was\u200b blocking those investigations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shokin has announced that \u2063he will provide further details on his claims against Biden in his upcoming book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin rejected corruption accusations, deeming them unfounded. In a Fox News interview, Shokin stated that he was dismissed in 2016 due to pressure from then-Vice President Joe Biden, who sought to impede his investigation into Burisma, where Hunter Biden was involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2013548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}