The Burisma Biden Timeline Detailed
Unraveling the Ukrainian Connection: A Timeline of Biden, Burisma, and a Billion-Dollar Threat – The Intricate Dance of Politics, Power, and Quid Pro Quo"
In the turbulent era of Trump's impeachment, a video surfaced that caught my eye. It was none other than the former Vice President, Joe Biden, openly admitting at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting that he had threatened to withhold a staggering $1 billion in loan guarantees unless Ukraine's Prosecutor General was fired. Coincidence or not, Biden's son was appointed to the board of Burisma the same month the UK seized the bank accounts of its founder in 2014. Fast forward to January 2015, the accounts were unfrozen. By February, Viktor Shokin was appointed prosecutor general. By November, Shokin was knocking on the doors of the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation in the Hague, seeking a review of the Central Criminal Court of England's decision to dismiss all charges against Mykola Zlochevsky.
But the plot thickens. In December 2015, Biden visited Ukraine and demanded Shokin's firing. By March, Shokin was out. By June, all charges against Burisma and its founder were dismissed. The sequence of events was too neat, too convenient. It reeked of quid pro quo, a term that would later become synonymous with the Democrats' impeachment of Trump for merely asking Ukraine to investigate the very same matter. The irony is palpable, and the timeline I've pieced together below lays it all bare. It's a twisted tale of politics and power, where the lines between right and wrong are blurred, and the truth is often stranger than fiction.
BURISMA TIMELINE
2003: Zlochevsky co-founded Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company focusing on oil and natural gas exploration and production.
July 20, 2009: Vice President Joe Biden visited Ukraine.
June 2010 - April 2012: Mykola Zlochevsky served as Ukraine's Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources.
April 20-21, 2010: Biden visited Ukraine, meeting with President Yanukovych.
April 2012: Mykola Zlochevsky left his ministerial position and returned to his business activities, including his role at Burisma.
November 2010: Oleksandr Medvedko's tenure as Prosecutor General ended.
November 2010: Viktor Pshonka was appointed as Prosecutor General.
December 7, 2013: Biden met with Ukrainian President Yanukovych and other leaders.
February 2014: Viktor Pshonka was dismissed.
March 2014: Investigations and legal actions against Mykola Zlochevsky in Ukraine were initiated. He was suspected of various offenses, including money laundering, tax evasion, and granting illegal licenses while he was a minister.
April 2014: The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) froze accounts belonging to Mykola Zlochevsky for suspecting money laundering; Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were appointed to the board of Burisma Holdings.
April 13, 2014: Hunter Biden instructed his partner, Devon Archer, to obtain a burner phone to use in conjunction with their communications related to Burisma and Joe Biden.1
April 16, 2014: Devon Archer met with Vice President Biden at the White House to discuss Burisma.
April 22, 2014: Biden visited during the Ukrainian coup, meeting with leaders.
June 2014: Vitaliy Yarema was appointed as Prosecutor General.
November 21, 2014: Biden visited Ukraine.
November 2014: Biden visited the United Kingdom.
January 2015: The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales unblocked Mykola Zlochevsky's accounts, dismissing all charges.
February 2015: Viktor Shokin was appointed as Prosecutor General.
November 15, 2015: An email from Burisma to Hunter Biden made it clear the vice president’s son was being paid to influence U.S. politicians and bureaucrats to pressure Ukraine to drop charges against Mykola Zlochevsky and Burisma.2
November 2015: Viktor Shokin requested that the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation in the Hague review the decision by the Central Criminal Court of England to dismiss all charges against Mykola Zlochevsky.3
December 18, 2015: Vice President Biden traveled to Ukraine to meet with Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk and threatened to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees unless they fired Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
March 2016: Viktor Shokin was dismissed.
May 2016: Yuriy Lutsenko was appointed as Prosecutor General.
June 2016: Ukrainian authorities closed all criminal cases against Mykola Zlochevsky, and he was cleared of all charges.
January 2018: Former Vice President Biden spoke to the Council on Foreign Relations, describing his threat regarding Shokin.
April 2019: Hunter Biden and Devon Archer step down from the Burisma board of directors.
August 2019: Viktor Shokin was poisoned in Greece and hospitalized for Mercury poisoning.4
August 2019: Ruslan Riaboshapka was appointed as Prosecutor General.
November 2019: Riaboshapka initiated a review of the dismissal of the criminal cases against Mykola Zlochevsky.
March 2020: Riaboshapka was dismissed.
March 2020: Iryna Venediktova was appointed as Prosecutor General.
April 2020: Venediktova indicated she would not pursue any further investigation into Mykola Zlochevsky.
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