Viktor Mialyk
Viktor Mialyk | |
|---|---|
Віктор М'ялик | |
 Official portrait, 2019 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| Assumed office 29 August 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Vasyl Yanitskyi |
| Constituency | Rivne Oblast, No. 155 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 May 1979 Voronky |
| Political party | ZM |
| Other political affiliations | Independent |
Viktor Nychyporovych Mialyk (Ukrainian: Віктор Ничипорович М'ялик; born 10 May 1979) is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 155th electoral district since 29 August 2019. He is a member of For the Future.
Early life and career
[edit]Viktor Nychyporovych Mialyk was born on 10 May 1979 in the village of Voronky, in Ukraine's Rivne Oblast. He began his working career in 1996, as a worker on the Zaria kolkhoz. In 2000, he graduated from the Volodymyrets Professional and Technical College No. 29, specialising in carpentry.[1]
Until 2014, Mialyk primarily worked in the craft industry; from 2004 to 2005 he worked as a plasterer, from 2005 to 2011 he worked as an electric welder, and from 2011 to 2014 he was foreman of a carpentry brigade. In 2014, he became financial director at MDS-Story LLC, and in 2017 he founded his own company, MD Plus,[1] a real estate company.[2]
In 2019, he graduated from the Yuri Bugai International Scientific and Technical University with a specialisation in legal studies.[1]
Political career
[edit]Mialyk ran in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election as an independent candidate in Ukraine's 155th electoral district, but lost to Vasyl Yanitskyi, garnering 15.80% to Yanitskyi's 28.68%.[3] Mialyk ran again in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, and this time won, beating out Yanitskyi and Servant of the People candidate Volodymyr Rashovskyi, taking 32.83% of the vote compared to Rashkovskyi's 25.97% and Yanitskyi's 20.81%.[4] In the Verkhovna Rada, Mialyk joined For the Future and the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Organisation of State Power and Local Self-Rule.[2]
On 25 March 2021, Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venediktova announced an investigation into Mialyk over suspicion of tax fraud involving ₴97 million. According to Venediktova, Mialyk made a business out of selling apartments in Kyiv from 2012 and paying only 5% of profits to tax authorities, as opposed to the required 18%.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Мʼялик Віктор Ничипорович" [Mialnyk, Viktor Nychyporovych]. LB.ua (in Russian). 3 April 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
- ^ a b "Мʼялик Віктор Ничипорович" [Mialyk, Viktor Nychyporovych]. Chesno (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 1 December 2022.
- ^ "Одномандатний виборчий округ №155" [Single-mandate electoral district No. 155]. Central Election Commission (Ukraine) (in Ukrainian). 18 July 2019. Archived from the original on 29 July 2019. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
- ^ "Відомості про підрахунок голосів виборців в одномандатному виборчому окрузі №155" [Information about counting of voters' votes in single-mandate electoral district No. 155]. Central Election Commission (Ukraine) (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 28 July 2019. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
- ^ Lytvynenko, Ihor; Chernysh, Oleh (25 March 2021). "Нардепу Мялику повідомили підозру за ухилення від сплати податків" [People's Deputy Mialyk informed of suspicion for tax evasion]. RBC Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 1 December 2022.