![]() Shokin was a central figure in Rudy Giuliani’s campaign to sully Biden, one of the main threads of the impeachment proceedings. The president was acquitted by the Republican-controlled Senate in a mostly party-line vote. Trump was accused of corruptly using government power to push for political help from Ukraine in the form of investigations to try to discredit his Democratic political rivals. ![]() President Trump pressured Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce a probe of this kind last year, a move that led to Trump’s impeachment by the House of Representatives. Sergii Kharchenko / NurPhoto via Getty Images file Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin speaks at a news conference in Kyiv in 2015. The courts overwhelmingly order law enforcement to launch criminal cases even in the absence of evidence, according to Vitaly Shabunin, the co-founder of the Anti-Corruption Action Center, a Kyiv-based watchdog group. ![]() ![]() Under Ukrainian law, anyone can go to court to request an investigation if the State Investigative Bureau declines to open one on its own. ![]()
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