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The Kharkiv Anti-Corruption Center reported that Kharkiv municipal enterprises continue to spend money on a lawyer from Mayor Ihor Terekhov’s circle.
At the end of August – beginning of September three municipal enterprises of the Kharkiv City Council signed contracts for legal assistance and advocacy services totaling 1,32 million UAH. All of them were with the law office “Meniv Oleksii.”
In 31 August, without competitive bidding, Meniv’s office received three contracts at once: for 500 thousand UAH with KP “Kharkiv Thermal Networks,” for 320 thousand UAH with KP “Municipal Waste Management Company,” and another for 500 thousand UAH with KP “Kharkivvodokanal.”
Oleksii Meniv was or is an adviser to Ihor Terekhov. The city council and Meniv personally declined to confirm or deny this. According to journalists, Meniv may be the unofficial overseer of the city council’s legal direction. He comes from the law association “Shkrebets and Partners,” and in 2025 he became known because of an alleged connection to the Mindich case.
Meniv is an old acquaintance of Andriy Syniuk, who was the first deputy head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. Ukrainska Pravda published data about a number of secret meetings between Meniv and Syniuk. In turn, Meniv’s family lives in Kyiv in the same building as Tymur Mindich. The article states that Syniuk may have had an indirect influence on the course of the investigation into the case of the businessman and friend of the president, Mindich.
It was during Meniv’s tenure that budget contracts for legal services began to be systematically awarded to his law office, the association “Shkrebets and Partners,” or people who originated from that association. In practice, a monopoly on legal support has formed within the Kharkiv City Council, where key contracts have circulated for years among the same people.
In 16 July, searches were conducted at the law association “Shkrebets and Partners” and at the lawyers of that association, including Oleksii Meniv. At the time, the association said it had faced pressure and called the searches illegal, claiming they were carried out allegedly without an order or a petition from the Prosecutor General or his deputy. During the searches, lawyers’ mobile phones, laptops, and documents were seized.
After HACC’s inquiries about whether Meniv is an adviser to Ihor Terekhov, the municipal enterprises of the city council stopped signing contracts with Meniv’s law office and with the lawyers of the association “Shkrebets and Partners” in general. But the city council’s avoidance lasted literally only a couple of months.
In July HACC and ¥vara released an investigation into how the Kharkiv City Council ended up on a subscription footing with the law association “Shkrebets and Partners,” which cost the city nearly 100 million hryvnias just during the full-scale war.
Hanna Kisliakova, Nashi Hroshi
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