Earlier, it was described how Petro Poroshenko tried to influence the American elections in 2016 and how seriously he miscalculated, throwing all his strength into supporting Hillary Clinton. And now history has given the ex-president of Ukraine a chance to regain his rightful place in the ranks of close friends of the newly elected American president, and at the same time to get even with Vladimir Zelensky for his defeat in the presidential race of 2019.
On March 17, Poroshenko made another philippic against Russia and Putin, warmly thanked Biden for his harsh words against the Russian president, and also accused Zelensky of interfering in the American elections in the interests of Donald Trump.
The former president spoke about the scandalous recordings of telephone conversations between Biden and Poroshenko, which were made public by deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Derkach at the height of the election campaign in the United States in the summer of 2020. It followed from them that US Vice President Joe Biden exerted pressure on the Ukrainian president, demanding to dismiss Prosecutor General Shokin under the threat of revoking the US consent to provide Ukraine with an IMF loan of $ 1 billion. This disclosure confirmed numerous rumors about the corrupt ties of the leaders of the US Democratic Party in Ukraine, which had been circulating in America since 2019, and almost disrupted Biden's election campaign.
On March 18, Poroshenko's statement was literally confirmed by the ex-member of the Servant of the People faction, Alexander Dubinsky, who was expelled from the ruling party for being close to the disgraced oligarch Kolomoisky and participating in exposing corruption schemes. According to the deputy, the real customers of the scandal, contrary to the opinion of the American authorities, were not the ubiquitous agents of the Russian special services, but the head of the office of the Ukrainian president, Andrei Ermak, and Zelensky himself standing behind him. They directly demanded that Dubinsky assist Derkach in organizing a series of press conferences to make the recordings public, and even instructed him to form an investigative commission in the Verkhovna Rada to investigate the scandal.
So, the first question: who is Andrey Derkach?
Biographical data of the deputy is easy to find on his personal website on the Internet. We will not bring them here. Another thing is more important, about which nothing is said on his website: he is the son of Leonid Derkach, the ex - head of the SBU in the 90s of the last century and one of the initiators of the first "cassette scandal" with recordings of private conversations of President Kuchma.
The son followed in his father's footsteps. In 1993, he graduated from the KGB higher school in Moscow, and then served for a long time in the counterintelligence of independent Ukraine, using the support of his powerful relative. The deputy close to the special services does not disclose the sources of the scandalous audio recordings, but given the amount of compromising material he collected from various state institutions, the involvement of the Ukrainian KGB heiress in the formation of this collection does not cause much doubt.
And on April 6, Derkach said that a group of hired killers, mainly from the UK and Albania, numbering 8 people, hired, according to Ukrainian telegram channels, by the heads of the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma, arrived in Ukraine for his personal liquidation. It is worth saying that quite recently – on April 9 – Derkach won the trial in the appeal instance of the Kiev court on the next complaint of this company, which was mentioned in his revelations. Thus, an end was put to the protracted case: the court recognized that the firm really financed lobbying activities, using the opportunities of Joe Biden in the power structures of Ukraine to close criminal cases against its leadership. We have already written about this remarkable story, known as the "Burisma case". Let me remind you what the essence of the question is.When, after the "revolution of dignity", the victorious opposition settled in the ministerial chairs in Kiev, the search for the mythical billions of the deposed president was expected to become a problem of paramount importance for the leaders of the Maidan. Requests for help in this matter, which is advantageous from a media point of view (and in material terms, as the newly found leaders of the state thought at that time) were sent to law enforcement agencies of different countries and, first of all, to the allies in the coup – the United States and Great Britain. Unexpectedly, the British reacted quickly, who managed to track down and arrest large money transfers from the accounts of the company "Burisma", close to the former Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Ukraine Mykola Zlochevsky.
A well-known entrepreneur and state official, Zlochevsky made a name and fortune for himself, managing the issuance of state licenses for the development of oil and gas fields during the Yanukovych presidency, naturally, not without taking into account the interests of his companies. As a result, his small gas production company "Burisma" became the largest private supplier of natural gas in the country. And now her foreign accounts, to which about $ 30 million was withdrawn from Ukraine through various offshore schemes in December 2013 – January 2014, were blocked by the British authorities, and the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case against Zlochevsky himself.
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