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The Daily Beast has learned from an influential member of Ukraine’s parliament, from one of the country’s prosecutors, and from a center combating corruption that the government here is likely to pursue the cases that President Donald Trump urged on President Volodymyr Zelensky in a controversial phone call last July. But not the way Trump intends, and not necessarily to the detriment of Trump challenger Joe Biden.
But it may be to the detriment of certain other people:
A major part of the Trump narrative is that in 2016 then-Vice President Biden pressed for the resignation of Prosecutor Lutsenko in order to protect his son. That is not the way people in Ukraine remember things. Lutsenko’s reputation for corruption was infamous, and Biden supported the efforts of Ukraine’s reformers to be rid of him.
According to Nalyvaichenko, Lutsenko needs to be investigated further, not least because he has been in communication with Trump’s agents “for vindictive purposes.”
Nalyvaichenko said Ukraine should also be interested in a thorough investigation into the “black ledger” that recorded slush-fund payments to Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort.
That would be Valentin Nalyvaichenko, a member of Ukraine’s parliament who also is former head of the Security Service of Ukraine, the country’s leading law enforcement and security authority. Like most people involved in combating Ukraine’s corruption, Nalyvaichenko remembers Biden as an ally. The role of Trump and his team is yet to be investigated.