To review – Shokin had an active and ongoing investigation into Ukrainian energy company Burisma and its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, according to a 2020 US Senate Committee\u00a0report<\/a>.<\/p>\n Zlochevsky, who hired Hunter Biden\u00a0to sit on his board<\/a>,\u00a0granted his own company (Burisma) permits to drill for oil and gas in Ukraine<\/strong>\u00a0while he was Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources.\u00a0Shokin stated in a 2019 deposition<\/a>\u00a0that there were\u00a0five<\/strong>\u00a0criminal cases against Zlochevesky, including money laundering, corruption, illegal funds transfers, and profiteering through shell corporations while he was a sitting minister.<\/p>\n Now,\u00a0Shokin tells\u00a0Fox News<\/em>\u00a0that be believes the Bidens were taking bribes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n “I do not want to deal in unproven facts. But my firm personal conviction is that yes, this was the case.\u00a0They were being bribed<\/strong>,” Shokin told the outlet. “The fact that Joe Biden gave away $1 billion in U.S. money in exchange for my dismissal – my firing – isn’t that alone a case of corruption?<\/strong>” he asks in another clip.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/shokin.jpg?itok=dJthUBYj\")
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