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Mykola Meret — Head of the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office or a guarantor of impunity?
Mykola #Мерет in the summer of 2024 became head of the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office; before that he led the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Defense in the Western region. In 2024 year he declared 1,7 million UAH in salary. At the same time, after registering a sole proprietorship, his wife received over 2,1 million UAH in income from entrepreneurial activity. The family’s total income for the year exceeded four million hryvnias.
📌The declaration also lists an apartment in Lviv with an area of almost 98 m², a plot of land, a share of an apartment, an Audi Q7 from 2019, and 40 thousand dollars in savings. Meanwhile, it is precisely the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, which Meret heads, that is supposed to respond to violations of the law and exercises procedural guidance in criminal proceedings in the region.
However, during Meret’s tenure Lviv customs officers have been systematically pressuring an importer of perishable goods — the Polish company #OLVAR SP. Z O.O. Since the end of 2025, almost every customs clearance has been accompanied by delays of two to five days, and since May 2026 goods have effectively not been released without laboratory conclusions, even though all other control procedures had already been completed. This practice repeated dozens of times.
❗️The result was not long in coming. According to one independent survey inspection, 89,52% of the perishable goods lost their commercial properties and became unfit for sale. The company reports multimillion losses due to spoilage of goods, vehicle downtime, and additional logistics costs. And despite repeated appeals by the Polish company to state bodies, the customs lawlessness, it claims, continues.
However, the pressure on the Polish importer is far from the only case occurring in the Lviv region. Equally high-profile is the situation surrounding the construction of the industrial complex of JSC “Lviv Chemical Plant” under the leadership of Bobryshov in the Bartativ district of the Horodok community. Despite numerous appeals from residents, who claim the object’s real purpose is being concealed and possible violations occurred during its preparation, the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office also shows no public response.
Materials on the topic:
▫️Looting under the cover of law: how Lviv customs officers are destroying European business and Ukraine’s image
▫️What schemes are #Держмитслужба and #Держпродспоживслужба running at the border to destroy relations with the EU?
▫️Predatory schemes of Lviv customs officers and the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection against the EU
▫️An environmental risk under Lviv residents’ noses: a pro-Russian past and dubious construction methods of a chemical giant
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