A Ukrainian court ruled against satisfying ex-Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin's complaint concerning the case №62020000000000236 against Joe Biden. The criminal proceeding concerned Biden's alleged interference in the work of Viktor Shokin when the latter served as Ukraine's Prosecutor General.
"Criminal proceedings No. 62020000000000236 were closed on September 23, 2020 (a few months prior to the U.S. presidential election), due to a lack of corpus delicti. Applicant Viktor Shokin and his lawyers did not agree with the decision. They filed a complaint against a police incestigator. After reviewing the materials of the proceedings, on February 25, 2021, the court issued its verdict: REJECT the complaint (case No. 757 / 42457/20-K)," the press service of the Interior Ministry stated on Friday.
Earlier, on February 27, 2020, Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigations registered a criminal proceeding regarding Biden's alleged pressure on ex-Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. According to Shokin, then-Vice President Biden exercised pressure and interfered in his work due to the prosecutor's investigation of ex-Minister of Ecology Mykola Zlochevsky and top managers of Burisma Holdings, a company on whose board U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter had served from 2014 to 2019. The case was opened under Part 2 of Article 343 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
The police closed the case on September 23, 2020, due to a lack of corpus delicti.
It's worth noting that Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said investigations into Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings Ltd, a matter closely tied to a scandal that led to former U.S. President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, have been closed with no plans to reopen them.
“Everything that prosecutors could do, they have done,” she said in an interview with Reuters via a video call from Kyiv. “This is why I don’t see any possibilities (or) necessity to come back to these cases.”
The U.S. House of Representatives impeached Donald Trump in December 2019 on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress over his request for a "favor" in a July 2019 phone call to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump asked for an investigation into Biden and his son Hunter. In February 2020, the Senate voted to acquit then-President Trump.