the Impetus for the decision was the complaint of the lawyer Shokin, Alexander Telesector on “the inactivity of office of public Prosecutor”. According to the publication “Gordon”, according to the order of the judge, the investigation should be stated that interference in the activities of the former Prosecutor General suspected of having not “unidentified US citizen”, former us Vice United States President Joe Biden.
Shokin was the Prosecutor General of Ukraine from February 2015 to April 2016. According to him, the dismissal was unlawful, and by law he had to spend on this post for two years and four months. Starting in 2017 Shokin trying to be reinstated.
in January 2018 Biden said that he demanded from the then President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to dismiss Shokin in exchange for loan guarantees from Washington. Subsequently, Kiev this requirement is satisfied and replaced Shokina to “one who at the time was credible,” Biden said during a television interview. That is why former attorney General announced that his dismissal was the result of external pressure on Ukraine’s leadership and had illegal character.
