Viktor Shokin

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Viktor Shokin

Ukrainian government official

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…replace the country’s top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was widely viewed as corrupt.
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…replace the country’s top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was widely viewed as corrupt.
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…prosecutor general at the time, Viktor Shokin. According to a conspiracy theory to which Trump subscribed, Biden, while serving as vice president in the Barack Obama administration (2009–17), had urged Shokin’s ouster in order to halt an investigation of the Ukrainian natural-gas company Burisma Holdings, Ltd., that threatened to uncover…
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…prosecutor general at the time, Viktor Shokin. According to a conspiracy theory to which Trump subscribed, Biden, while serving as vice president in the Barack Obama administration (2009–17), had urged Shokin’s ouster in order to halt an investigation of the Ukrainian natural-gas company Burisma Holdings, Ltd., that threatened to uncover…
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