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The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, which had been investigating Burisma of Zlochevsky, wanted to arrange training for its employees in the United States funded by that same company. This is evidenced by correspondence between Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and State Department official George Kent.
“The company that the Prosecutor General’s Office previously investigated is financing training for employees of that same Prosecutor General’s Office through an American organization? Oy vey vey,” Kent wrote 26 September 2017.
At the time, the Prosecutor General’s Office was headed by Yuriy Lutsenko, under whom criminal cases against Zlochevsky were closed. The training was organized by the American lobbying firm Blue Star Strategies, which represented Burisma’s interests. The McCain Institute was to conduct the training.
Yovanovitch recommended declining Burisma’s funding for the program, after which the McCain Institute rejected the offer. As a result, Ukrainian prosecutors did not get the opportunity to improve their qualifications at the expense of the company whose activities they had investigated.