Biden's Corruption and War The True Story of the 1 Billion Dollar Prosecutor

by Viktor Shokin, Florita Toquero (Editor), James P Bradley (Foreword)

360 pages, Hardcover

Published November 10, 2025

Reviews

[Jacob Libby · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read both of former Prosecuter General of Ukraine, Victor Shokin's, two books. This is the one to read. He tells his whole story and everything he knows about how Washington's neocolonial violence overwhelmed his country and turned its institutions upside-down. Shokin focuses on Joe Biden, and this is understandable, given how he and why he was fired, and he focuses on money laundering, corruption, election interference, and embezzlement schemes involving Burisma, USAID, the Biden's, Ukrainian oligarchs, and the State Department. He doesn't tie these events to larger US-NATO geostrategic goals directly, but his story helps draw connections between on-the-ground realities and the larger strategic operations. Everything is backed up with original source documentation.

Let me give you one example. The following scenario can be extrapolated from the information Shokin provides in this book.

Biden got Shokin fired as a tit-for-tat to close corruption cases against Burisma owner, Klochevsky. This protected a scheme Biden was running in his official capacity as VP. Burisma and Hunter were just part of it. Special outside "advisory counsels" were set up and Porochenko was forced to push a law through the Rada giving these counsels authority to override the management structure of domestic companies --- that is, in the name of anti-corruption, the US/NATO block was taking over private Ukrainian companies. This wasn't only about Burisma. Biden appointees were put onto boards for Dnipro Bank and Naftogaz, and other corporations. And Hunter wasn't the only Biden appointee on the Burisma board.

Immediately after the Maidan coup, these machinations began, but following successful Russian countermoves --- securing Crimea in the spring of 2014 and fortifying the Donbas separatists when they began to fall to Kiev that autumn --- Washington subjected Russia to punishing sanctions, including secondary sanctions on any country that would import Russian oil & gas. But Ukraine is dependent on Russian oil & gas, and with a precarious Western-backed junta having just taken charge in Kiev, secondary sanctions on Ukraine could backfire, pushing Kiev back into the arms of Russia.

So, the plan was to deploy a "Virtual Reverse Gas" financial technique. To do this, the EU had to financialize gas trading. A law was passed by the EU Parliament allowing the buying and selling of fossil fuels without requiring physical possession. Then, through the "supervisor counsels", U.S. assets arranged for Russian gas to be sold on paper to Naftogaz and an octopus of associated overseas shell companies, with LLCs ties to Poland, Delaware, Slovakia and elsewhere. In actuality, the oil & gas that belonged to these offshore companies was physically in Ukraine, and had been pumped in the same way it always had, from the Russian Gazprom pipeline network into the same Ukrainian infrastructure that used to be owned by Soviet-era Ukrgazprom, now rebranded as Naftogaz.

The scheme was sold by the media, who touted "Ukrainian energy independence" and its "independence from the Russian 'energy weapon'." This is an important clue pointing to motive. The end result was that on paper Ukraine could be seen as importing oil & gas from the EU or elsewhere, and not from Russia --- thus bypassing sanctions and allowing the U.S. to apply harsh secondary sanctions against Russia without risking Ukraine's newly minted loyalty to the West.

And yes, Hunter and the other appointees were paid handsomely for their roles. Some above board like Hunter's 50K/month salary. But there are signs of darker cash flows, money that was trafficked and laundered through networks of shell companies and offshore banks, some of which found its way into Delaware-based accounts, and into the accounts of law offices associated with the Biden family.