- 2002
- In 2002, he [Zlochevsky] co-founded the largest independent oil and natural gas company Burisma Holdings
- 2004-11
- a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005
- The protests were prompted by reports from several domestic and foreign election monitors as well as the widespread public perception that the results of the run-off vote of 21 November 2004 between leading candidates Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych were rigged by the authorities in favour of the latter.
- 2004-12-26
- The final results showed a clear victory for Yushchenko
- 2010
- In the 2010 presidential election, Yanukovych became Yushchenko's successor as Ukrainian President
- 2010-2012
- [Zlochevskiy] was Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources from July 2010 till April 2012
- 2012-2014
- [Zlochevskiy] was the deputy secretary for Economic and Social Security on the National Security and Defense Council from April 2012 until February 2014
- Zlochevskiy served as environment and natural resources minister under former President Viktor Yanukovych
- 2014-02
- Yanukovych was ousted from power four years later following the February 2014 Euromaidan clashes in Kiev's Independence Square.
- 2014-02
- Joe Biden's Son Hunter Biden Discharged From Navy After Positive Cocaine Test
- 2014-05
- Zlochevsky’s gas firm hired Hunter Biden and Archer as board members for Burisma Holdings in spring 2014, around the time that British officials opened corruption investigations into Zlochevsky’s gas firm
- 2014-03-04
- U.S. pledges $1 billion aid to Ukraine, condemns Russia
- The Obama administration statement said the U.S. will help with "recovering stolen assets," a reference to allegations that former Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych and associates took billions of dollars with them when they fled the country.
- 2014-04-21
- Vice President Biden arrived here [Kiev] Monday at a crossroads moment in Ukraine’s conflict with Russia
- 2014-05
- Heinz, however, chose not to participate in the Burisma dealings. In fact, he wrote an email to his stepfather’s top aides in May 2014, pointedly distancing himself from the decision by Hunter Biden and Devon Archer to join Burisma’s board.
- Secretary Kerry’s stepson, Christopher Heinz, had been a business partner with both Archer and Hunter Biden at the Rosemont Seneca investment firm in the United States.
- Heinz’s spokesman recently told The Washington Post that Heinz ended his relationship with Archer and Hunter Biden partly over the Burisma matter. “The lack of judgment in this matter was a major catalyst for Mr. Heinz ending his business relationships with Mr. Archer and Mr. Biden,” Heinz spokesman Chris Bastardi told the newspaper
- 2014-05-25
- Petro Poroshenko became the president of Ukraine after a landslide victory in the unscheduled 2014 presidential elections.
- 2014-08
- Ukraine officials opened their own corruption probe in August 2014.
- 2014
- At the end of 2014, Zlochevsky fled Ukraine amid allegations of unlawful self enrichment and legalization of funds
- 2015-02
- Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko appoints Viktor Shokin, a former investigator in the prosecutor general’s office, as the country’s prosecutor general.
- 2015-09-22
- Shokin signed a decree on September 22 establishing a special anticorruption department within the Prosecutor-General’s Office.
- 2015-09-24
- “Rather than supporting Ukraine’s reforms and working to root out corruption, corrupt actors within the Prosecutor-General’s Office are making things worse by openly and aggressively undermining reform,”
- Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt
- https://www.rferl.org/a/us-ambassador-upbraids-ukraine-over-corruption-efforts/27271294.html
- 2015-09-24
- Pyatt urged the audience to “speak up in support of these brave investigators and prosecutors” leading this department, who “have delivered important arrests and have sent the signal that those who abuse their official positions as prosecutors will be investigated and prosecuted.”
- 2015-11-02
- On 2 November 2015, there was an assassination attempt against him [Shokin] when an unidentified sniper fired three shots into his office
- 2015-12
- Vice President Biden threatens to withhold funding from Ukraine if Shokin is not fired.
- 2015-12-08
- "Now may be the last chance to stop corruption from eroding the foundations of the Ukrainian state, the United States" Vice President Joe Biden told local politicians during his visit to Kyiv on December 6–8.
- 2016
- At the end of 2016 the Central Criminal Court in London released $23 million that were blocked on accounts of Zlochevsky.
- 2016-02-02
- Just three weeks before Burisma’s overture to State, Ukrainian authorities raided the home of the oligarch who owned the gas firm and employed Hunter Biden, a signal the long-running corruption probe was escalating in the middle of the U.S. presidential election.
- By early 2016 the Ukrainian investigation had advanced enough that then-Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin authorized a court-ordered seizure of Zlochevsky’s home and other valuables, including a luxury car. That seizure occurred on Feb. 2, 2016, according to published reports in Ukraine.
- 2016-02-16
- On 16 February 2016, Shokin submitted a letter of resignation
- 2016-02-24
- During that February [24] 2016 contact, a U.S. representative for Burisma Holdings sought a meeting with Undersecretary of State Catherine A. Novelli to discuss ending the corruption allegations against the Ukrainian firm where Hunter Biden worked as a board member, according to memos obtained under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
- 2016-02-24
- “Per our conversation, Karen Tramontano of Blue Star Strategies requested a meeting to discuss with U/S Novelli USG remarks alleging Burisma (Ukrainian energy company) of corruption,” a Feb. 24, 2016, email between State officials read. “She noted that two high profile U.S. citizens are affiliated with the company (including Hunter Biden as a board member)."
- Tramontano was a lawyer working for Blue Star Strategies, a Washington firm that was hired by Burisma to help end a long-running corruption investigation against the gas firm in Ukraine.
- 2016-03 ???
- To pressure Poroshenko into removing him, the Obama Administration withheld a billion dollars in loan guarantees. (Ukrainians began calling Shokin “the billion-dollar man.”) A senior official in the White House told me that Vice-President Joe Biden spoke to Poroshenko by phone every few weeks and made it clear that, as far as additional loan guarantees were concerned, “you can meet every single other condition, but until you replace this guy you are not getting this money.”
- 2016-03-16
- On 16 March 2016 an official of the prosecution office stated that Shokin had resumed his work.
- 2016-03-27
- March 2016 his [Shokin's] office carried out a raid against one of Ukraine's leading anti-corruption groups, the Anti-Corruption Action Center (AntAC), claiming that it had misappropriated aid money.
- 2016-03-28
- On 28 March, protesters called for Shokin's firing, after his office was authorized by a Kiev court to investigate AntAC [Anti-Corruption Action Center].
- 2016-03-29
- Shokin was formally dismissed in a parliamentary vote on 29 March 2016.
- 2017-01-06
- On Jan 6, 2017, Biden paid his last visit to Kiev as U.S. vice president. His agenda was as always – calls for implementing Minsk 2, promoting reforms and organizing anti-corruption investigations. But there was a couple of special moments.
- But politics are not Biden’s only interest in Ukraine. Here he also has business interests. His son, Hunter Biden, is in the board of Ukraine’s biggest private gas producer, Burisma Holdings (an annual output of 1.5bn c m). That company is owned by Mykola Zlochevsky, who was Ecology Minister under Viktor Yanukovych. And just a week before Biden’s visit to Ukraine, the country’s Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko ceased all criminal proceedings against Zlochevsky.
- Lutsenko’s decision was a great gift to the Biden family as now they have free hands in Ukraine. Hunter Biden’s appointment into Burisma’s board was a bright example of elite corruption: Biden was given access to a gainful sector while Zlochevsky got a political cover.
- 2017-03-01
- The emails show Tramontano was scheduled to meet Novelli on March 1, 2016, and that State Department officials were scrambling to get answers ahead of time from the U.S. embassy in Kiev.
- At the time, Novelli was the most senior official overseeing international energy issues for State.
- The records don’t show whether the meeting actually took place.
- 2017-03-02
- But the records do indicate that Hunter Biden’s fellow American board member at Burisma, Devon Archer, secured a meeting on March 2, 2016 with Secretary of State John Kerry. In addition to serving on the Burisma board, Archer and Hunter Biden were partners at an American firm known as Rosemont Seneca.
- 2017-11-30
- "The decision to fully close all pending legal proceedings and criminal allegations was the result of many months of cooperation between the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) and the legal team representing the Burisma Group," the group said in a press release issued on Thursday.
- 2017-12
- [I]nvestigations into his Burisma Holdings had been completed in December 2017 with no charges filed against him.
- 2018
- Biden has said he forced Shokin’s firing because he and Western allies believed the prosecutor wasn’t aggressive enough in fighting corruption.
- Shokin disputes that account, telling both me and ABC News that he was fired specifically because he would not stand down from investigating Burisma. In fact, Shokin alleges, he was making plans to interview Hunter Biden about his Burisma work and payments when he got the axe.
- 2018-01-23
- Former VP Biden spoke at Foreign Affairs Issue Launch - Council on Foreign Relations
- “I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” - VP Joe Biden
- 2018-02
- Zlochevsky returned to Ukraine in February 2018
- 2018-04-18
- On April 18, 2018, recordings of conversations between President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and Zlochevsky were released which implicated him in graft.
- 2018-06-15
- Zlochevsky was accused of having illegally issued, while he was Ecology Minister in 2010–2012, oil and gas licenses to the companies that belonged to him.
- 2019-03-05
- "To ensure the integrity of anticorruption institutions, the Special Anticorruption Prosecutor [Nazar Kholodnitsky] must be replaced." Ambassador Yovanovitch
- "The U.S. stands firmly alongside the Ukrainian people in demanding that individuals be held accountable for their actions, for corruption, and that the court systems be independent, transparent, and serve the Ukrainian people’s interests." Amb. Yovanovitch
- 2019-04-25
- April 25, Democrat Joe Biden announced his intention to run for president from the Democratic Party in the 2020 election.
- 2019-06-21
- June 19, 2019, Trump officially announced the start of his election campaign.
- 2019-09-19
- The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee held its first private hearing on Trump's phone conversation with a foreign leader on September 19.
- 2019-09-21
- A top Ukrainian official on Saturday defended President Trump's July phone call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, during which Trump reportedly urged authorities in Kiev to investigate dealings in the Eastern European county by the son of former Vice President Joe Biden.
- “I know what the conversation was about and I think there was no pressure,” Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko told the Hromadske media outlet. "There was talk, conversations are different, leaders have the right to discuss any problems that exist. This conversation was long, friendly, and it touched on many questions, sometimes requiring serious answers."
- "President Trump is interested, his advisor, [Rudolph] Giuliani, newspapers, Democrats, Republicans are interested in whether pressure had been put on Ukraine. I want to say that we are an independent state, we have our own secrets,” Prystaiko stressed.
- https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ukraine-trump-zelensky-biden
- https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/politics/ukraines-foreign-minister-says-there-was-no-pressure-in-trumps-call-with-ukraines-president/ar-AAHFRRI
- https://en.hromadske.ua/posts/trump-did-not-pressure-zelenskyy-we-are-independent-state-prystaiko
- 2019-09-25
- President Trump will meet with President Zelenskyy for the first time on September 25 at the UN General Assembly in New York.
- 2019-11-14
- Ukraine’s foreign minister [Vadym Prystaiko] released a statement saying the U.S. envoy was never linked to probes into the Bidens’ alleged corruption. The minister added the Bidens were mentioned during U.S.-Ukrainian talks, but were not conditionally attached to the investigation.
- 2020-01-28
- Prosecutor Shokin files a complaint against Joe Biden for interference in Ukraine’s legal proceedings
- "During the period 2014-2016, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine was conducting a preliminary investigation into a series of serious crimes committed by the former Minister of Ecology of Ukraine Mykola Zlotchevsky and by the managers of the company “Burisma Holding Limited “(Cyprus), the board of directors of which included, among others, Hunter Biden, son of Joseph Biden, then vice-president of the United States of America."
- "Thus, the unlawful influence exerted on me as the head of a judicial structure in the country by Joseph Biden, who abused his power as the Vice-President of the United States in order to prevent me from carrying out my duties as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, thus preventing me from solving serious crimes and arresting the persons who committed those crimes, has the characteristics of the crime stipulated in Article 343 part 2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine."
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
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