Manafort and a former Obama White House counsel were on the brink of being charged for aiding the embezzlement of more than $1m in Ukraine. Then the case suddenly disappeared.
by a jury in September. Reached by BuzzFeed News, Craig’s attorneys declined to provide comment for this story.
The incoming president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and his team were well aware of the importance of keeping the US-Ukraine relationship strong and wary of offending Trump, whoUkraine to his envoy at the time as being full of “terrible people” who “tried to take me down.” Trump would also be the one to give final approval for $391.5 million in US military aid to Ukraine that the country needed to continue the fight against Russia-backed separatists in its war-torn eastern regions.
In August, Zelensky appointed Ruslan Riaboshapka as Ukraine’s new prosecutor general. Riaboshapka was an anti-corruption expert who vowed to clean up a dirty justice system and deliver high-profile corruption convictions. “He [Riaboshapka] destroyed our unit,” Gorbatyuk said. “I assume that it was done to intervene and destroy most of the investigations that we were conducting.” He said that included the case involving Manafort and Craig but he did not believe that that case was the sole reason behind the moves.
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