As we have been reporting, Shokin resigned under controversy, but then returned to work, and was finally dismissed by the Rada last week:

“On Friday, I received documents from the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) and a decree was signed on Viktor Shokin’s resignation,” he said in an interview with Ukrainian television channels. “I begin consultations with the parliamentary factions on candidates for prosecutor general.”

The saga of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin may finally be at an end. TASS reports that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has told the media that he has officially signed the decree from the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, which will remove Shokin from office.

Shokin’s corruption has recently been cited by several Ukrainian officials as the primary reason for their own resignations, including Vitaly Kasko, the deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine:

And Ukraine’s economy minister, Aivaras Abromavicius, who was widely respected by the international community and his peers in Ukraine alike. Abromavicius’s resignation also triggered the resignation of deputy head of the Ministry for Economic Development and Trade Yulia Klimenko, who joined in protest against Shokin,

Shokin’s continued presence, and his final acts as Prosecutor General, drew him, and the Ukrainian government international condemnation, including in an opinion written by the editorial staff of The New York Times which was published on April 1: