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Kharkiv Anti-Corruption Center reported that Kharkiv municipal enterprises continue to spend money on a lawyer from the mayor of Kharkiv Ihor Tereshov's circle.
At the end of August – early September three Kharkiv city council municipal enterprises signed contracts for legal aid and advocacy services totaling 1,32 million UAH. All of them are with the Law Firm Meniv (Oleksii Meniv).
31 in August without bidding, the Meniv bureau received three contracts: for 500 thousand UAH from PJSC Kharkiv Heat Networks, for 320 thousand UAH from PJSC Municipal Waste Management Company, and another for 500 thousand UAH from PJSC Kharkiv Vodokanal.
Oleksii Meniv was, or is, an adviser to Ihor Tereshov. The City Council and he personally refused to confirm or deny this. Journalists report that Meniv may be an unofficial supervisor of the city council's legal direction. He hails from the law firm Shkrebetz and Partners, and in 2025 year became known due to an alleged connection with the Mindič case.
Oleksii Meniv (on the left) and Andrii Synyuk.
Meniv is an old acquaintance of Andrii Synyuk, who was the first deputy head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office. Ukrainska Pravda published data about a series of secret meetings between Meniv and Synyuk. In turn, the Meniv family lives in Kyiv in the same building as Timur Mindich. The article states that Synyuk could have had indirect influence on the progress of the businessman's case and the friend of President Mindich.
It was during Meniv's time that budget contracts for legal services began to be systematically awarded to his law firm, the Shkrebetz and Partners association, or to people from that association. In fact, a monopoly on legal support formed in Kharkiv City Council, where key contracts circulated for years among the same people.
16 in July, searches took place in the law firm Shkrebetz and Partners and in the lawyers of this association, including Oleksii Meniv. The association stated they faced pressure and called the searches illegal because they allegedly lacked a court order, a request from the Prosecutor General or his deputy. During the searches, lawyers' mobile phones, laptops, and documents were seized.
After queries by KAC (Kharkiv Anti-Corruption Center) whether Meniv is an adviser to Ihor Tereshov, the municipal enterprises ceased signing contracts with Meniv's law firm and altogether with the Shkrebetz and Partners association. But the city councils barely lasted a couple of months.
In July KAC and Gvara released an investigation on how Kharkiv City Council ended up on the subscriber list of the law firm Shkrebetz and Partners, and this cost the city nearly 100 million hryvnias just during the full-scale war.
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