Faun
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And who were these Ukrainian Officials? Yea...Russian sympathizers
As far as Shokin
In 2012, the Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Pshonka began investigating Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of the natural gas company Burisma Holdings, over allegations of money laundering, tax evasion, and corruption during 2010–2012.[40][41]
In 2015, Shokin became the prosecutor general, inheriting the investigation. The Obama administration and other governments and non-governmental organizations soon became concerned that Shokin was not adequately pursuing corruption in Ukraine, was protecting the political elite, and was regarded as "an obstacle to anti-corruption efforts".[25][42] Among other issues, he was slow-walking the investigation into Zlochevsky and Burisma and, according to Zlochevsky's allies, using the threat of prosecution to try to solicit bribes from Mr. Zlochevsky and his team – to the extent that Obama officials were considering launching their own criminal investigation into the company for possible money laundering.[40]
You skipped over an entire year of obfuscation. In 2014, Shokin as Deputy Prosecutor General, he was assigned to cooperate with the U.K. who opened up an investigation into Zlochevsky and had frozen $23 million of his assets. Almost a year transpired when a British court ordered the investigation be halted and the $23 million released due to lack of evidence. The reason they lacked evidence...? Instead of cooperating with the U.K., Shokin stonewalled them until the case was dropped.