Viktor Mialyk

Viktor Nychyporovych Mialyk (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
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.

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, a real estate company.

In 2019, he graduated from the Yuri Bugai International Scientific and Technical University with a specialisation in legal studies.

Political career
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%. 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%. In the Verkhovna Rada, Mialyk joined For the Future and the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Organisation of State Power and Local Self-Rule.

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%.