Ukraine may reopen Burisma's case

Also will dive into how much monkey business was in play to prevent legitimate investigations

Valentin Nalyvaichenko, a former head of Ukraine's domestic intelligence agency and a member of Ukraine’s parliament, says he expects the corruption case of the Burisma gas company—two cases were opened and dropped by various prosecutors over the years —to be revisited. Hunter Biden, the son of then-Vice President Joe Biden, was a board member.

Nalyvaichenko said his country will be best served by pursuing an investigation related to the alleged Burisma’s multi-million dollar corruption deals, not because of Trump’s pressure but because Ukraine wants to know the truth about its own corruption, whether the founder of Burisma, Ukraine’s ex-minister of natural resources Mykola Zlochevsky from 2010 to 2012, had paid to squash the earlier investigations into the way he acquired gas licenses.

Prosecutor Sergiy Gorbatyuk investigated the founder of Burisma company, Mykola Zlochevsky, for three months in 2016, until Prosecutor General Lutsenko made a decision to drop the probe. First Lutsenko took the case away from the investigators, then closed it down illegally, Gorbatyuk told The Daily Beast on Tuesday.

“There would not have been any question [about pursuing] such cases today, if Lutsenko did not interfere in the investigations,” the prosecutor said. “I hope that with the change of management at the prosecutor general’s office there will be no illegal interferences and this case as well as other probes will be investigated strictly in accordance with the law.”  (LINK)

Now this may or may not have anything to do with Joe Biden or whether the United States Government threatened to withhold aid if certain people were not fired. But it may be a bad thing for Hunter Biden. Regardless of what certain people are saying (that the probe was dropped  for lack of any reasonable standing) it would certainly appear that the probe was never fully engaged, much less completed.

If the Ukraine decides (on it's own) to investigate Burisma, then most certainly the claims that Trump had no legitimate reason (other than to "gather dirt" on Biden) to call on this sort of action falls to the wayside.  The tin foil hat brigade will no doubt go crazy, claiming that this is the "result" of Trump's pressure, when in fact there will (again) be no evidence of such.

For the past three years or so, all we have heard from the Democrats defending their hair brained conspiracy allegations against the President is that any attempts to avoid or otherwise undermine any investigation is an action of "hiding something". Certainly if Hunter and Joe Biden have nothing to hide, then they should welcome Ukraine finally deciding to finish their investigation into Burisma for no other reason than to clear Hunter Biden's name.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander?