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| | ===December 2015=== | | ===December 2015=== |
| | + | *'''2 December.''' [[Dmitry Firtash]] announces hid intention to return to Ukraine to address the General Assembly of the Federation of Employers (FEU). |
| | + | :*Joe Biden, President Poroshenko, and Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov took steps to prevent Firtash's return.<ref>[https://www.scribd.com/document/427618359/Shokin-Statement Affidavit of [[Viktor Shokin]] on Biden shakedown], September 4, 2019.</ref> |
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| | + | *'''3 December.''' ''[[Politico]]'' reports:''A Ukrainian oligarch’s foiled homecoming: The U.S. and the government in Kiev want Dmytro Firtash behind bars.'' |
| | + | :*"Ukraine's Internal Affairs Minister Arsen Avakov announced on Sunday that, after consulting with U.S. officials, he instructed Ukrainian police to detain Firtash should he attempt to enter Ukraine."<ref>[https://www.politico.eu/article/firtash-poroshenko-ukraine-oligarchs-corruption/ A Ukrainian oligarch’s foiled homecoming], By LINDA KINSTLEr, ''Politico,'', 12/3/15.</ref> |
| | + | :*Photos of armed paramilitary groups were posted on Avakov's [[Facebook]] page; ''Politico'' reported the "commander of Ukraine’s nationalist Azov Battalion, said that his volunteer fighters would arrest Firtash themselves if government forces failed to do so. He later posted a Facebook photo of his armed men waiting at Kiev's Borispol airport. |
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| | + | *'''6 December.''' >Biden meets with Poroshenko in [[Kiev]]. |
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| | + | *'''8 December.''' '''''[[New York Times]]'' completes its investigation in the Biden-Ukraine scandal, ''Joe Biden, His Son and the Case Against a Ukrainian Oligarch.''''' |
| | + | :*[[Hunter Biden]], [[Burisma Holdings]], and its owner, [[Mykola Zlochevsky]], who was Ukraine's ecology minister under former President [[Viktor F. Yanukovych]] before Hunter's boss, Zlochevsky, embezzled $5 Billion and became a fugitive from justice. |
| | + | :*Zlochevsky hired Hunter Biden in 2014 while Vice President Biden oversaw U.S. loan guarantees to Ukraine. |
| | + | :*Burisma is Ukraine's largest oil and gas produce; hunter Biden was appointed to the board of directors. |
| | + | :*Hunter Biden was paid $166,000 a month, which was split with the nephew of [[Whitey Bulger]]. |
| | + | :*Zlochevsky]], a former Ukraine ecology minister, was under investigation by the new administration for embezzlement. |
| | + | :*Prosecutors traced payments to Hunter Biden. |
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| | + | ===March 2018=== |
| | + | *Biden threatened the new Ukrainian administration to withhold $1 Billion in U.S. allocated funds unless the prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden was fired.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-biden-ties.html</ref> |
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| | ==US-backed Ukrainian coup== | | ==US-backed Ukrainian coup== |