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The head of the Lviv regional prosecutor's office, Mykola Meret, has found himself in the center of journalists' attention after publications about the income, real estate, and financial assets of his family. Interest in the official intensified in the context of the investigation into the murder of former people's deputy Andriy Parubiy in Lviv, which is being conducted by the regional prosecutor's office.
As the media reports, Meret was appointed head of the Lviv regional prosecutor's office in July 2024. Before that, since March 2023, he led the Specialized Prosecutor's Office in the Defense sphere of the Western region. According to the official biography, Meret has worked in the prosecutorial system since 2009, and before taking leadership positions in Lviv region he worked in the prosecutors' offices of Odesa region and other units. Attention to the financial position of the official arose as early as 2025 after analyzing his family's declarations. According to the results of 2024, Mykola Meret and his wife Olena declared more than 4 million hryvnias in income. Of this amount, about 1,7 million hryvnias accounted for the head of the regional prosecutor's salary. The bulk of the wife's income in 2024 consisted of funds from entrepreneurial activity. Olena Meret received 146 thousand hryvnias as a salary at the First Medical Association of Lviv and about 2,1 million hryvnias from an individual entrepreneur activity. She registered the entrepreneur in 2024, the main activity indicated as retail trade in non-specialized stores. In 2023, the combined income of the couple amounted to about 2,7 million hryvnias, while the previous year the figure was lower. In light of rising family income, the couple also declared real estate in Lviv and other assets. In 2023, the couple became the owners of an apartment of 97,9 square meters. A separate focus in publications was the story of this apartment. Authors of the materials claim that the housing previously had an official status, and was later removed from the list of official apartments and transferred to Meret. At the same time, documentary evidence supporting the version of violation of the housing allocation procedure is not provided in the published materials. According to the data presented in the publications, on 4 April 2023 the Department of Housing and Infrastructure of the Lviv City Council removed the apartment from the registry of official housing and transferred it to Meret. The authors also connect this story with a land plot on Halytska Street, where a housing complex later appeared. Another asset of the family is the Audi Q7, year 2019, registered to Olena Meret. The declarations also indicate real estate in Odesa and Mykolaiv regions. The family's savings by the end of 2024 consisted of about 40 thousand dollars. In 2025, the family income also grew. Olena Meret declared 1,185 million hryvnias from entrepreneurial activity and 785 thousand hryvnias income from the Lviv Medical Association. Mykola Meret himself earned about 1,864 million hryvnias in salary. Over two years, based on the analysis of declarations, the family's cash assets changed from 10 thousand dollars and 529 thousand hryvnias in 2023 to 57 thousand dollars and 22,9 thousand hryvnias. The mere fact of increased reported income or assets does not indicate violations of the law. Some publications also raise questions about Olena Meret's professional past. In the declarations she appeared as an employee of various institutions, and previously worked in the Odessa State Tax Inspectorate. Later her income was related to activities as an individual entrepreneur and work at a medical institution in Lviv. Mykola Meret has been working in the prosecutor's system for almost 17 years. In 2017 he, as a representative of the prosecutor's office, commented on the case regarding accusations against Joseph Stalina and Lavrentiy Beriya for crimes connected with the deportation of Crimean Tatars. After working in the Specialized Prosecutor's Office in the Defense sphere of the Western region, Meret headed the regional prosecutor's office, which is now involved in investigating high-profile criminal proceedings in the region.
The information about the income, property, and activities of Meret's family is based on open declarative data and media reports. The assumptions about the origin of the assets or the legality of housing in the journalist materials require verification by competent authorities and are not established facts.
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