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👀Maria Vdovychenko collaborated with the deputy from the banned OPZZh, Suto Mamoyan, to destroy Poshtova Square
I became interested in Vdovychenko in connection with a criminal case ...regarding the illegal construction of a shopping center on Poshtova Square.
In 2019 she headed Kyiv Local Prosecutor’s Office No. 7, which exercised procedural supervision in this case, and after that the case stalled. That is, before Vdovychenko the investigation was proceeding effectively: the proceedings already contained conclusions from KNDISE examinations that confirmed the illegality of the construction. By the way, those same conclusions were later used by the Supreme Court ...ultimately revoking the urban planning conditions and restrictions for the construction of the shopping center.
... after Maria Vdovychenko headed Kyiv Local Prosecutor’s Office No. 7, the Poshtova Square case was wound down. 4 March 2019 year the commercial court left the claim without movement because the prosecutor’s office did not pay the required court fee ...and did not even justify the effectiveness of the chosen method of protection.
After that, at the request of Rustam Sutko (Mamoyan) 53 volumes of the criminal case regarding Poshtova Square were, with Maria Vdovychenko’s personal approval, transferred from the Podil prosecutor’s office to the SBI. Although that is not within their jurisdiction.
Rustam Sutko (Mamoyan) at that time worked in the General Prosecutor’s Office, controlled the activities of the SBI and had a direct relationship to Poshtova Square.
Rustam’s father, Cholo Mamoyan, through LLC Seylen Trade owned the commercial premises of the Kompot café, built on the square as the first launch complex of the multifunctional facility. His brother Suto Mamoyan, who later became a People’s Deputy from OPZZh, personally introduced himself to me as the second investor of the shopping center. The formal and first investor of the underground mall was LLC Hensford-Ukraine, whose beneficiary is Andriy Kravets (head of the State Department of Affairs under Yanukovych).
Thanks to our appeals during the prosecutors’ certification in 2019 year, the Personnel Commission of the General Prosecutor’s Office No. 1 concluded that Rustam Sutko used his official powers in the interests of his family, after which he failed the certification and was dismissed.
However, in 2020 year the District Administrative Court of Kyiv canceled the commission’s decision and the dismissal order, reinstating Rustam in the Office of the Prosecutor General as of 24 December 2019 year and awarding payment of average wages. Higher instances left the decision in force.
And, interestingly, we again have missing documents, as with Vdovychenko. When the court examined the legality of the personnel decision, it stated that the commission and the Office of the Prosecutor General did not support their conclusions with proper evidence and sufficient justification. It turned out that the materials of the certification conducted by six personnel commissions were destroyed back in December 2019 year, and now "the circumstances of this destruction are being investigated by the SBI." That is the same SBI that Mamoyan controlled for years. Mamoyan himself said that it was all slander and that there was no criminal case regarding Poshtova Square, and the Office of the Prosecutor General’s representative in court also said he knew nothing about it.
There was a case and it disappeared. Like Vdovychenko’s questionnaire and Mamoyan’s re-certification. Convenient.
After being reinstated, Rustam Mamoyan worked as first deputy head of the Dnipro District Prosecutor’s Office of Kyiv, and now "heads the Department of Procedural Supervision in criminal proceedings of investigators of the territorial unit of the SBI" in the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office. That is, he once again effectively controls the same direction he controlled in the General Prosecutor’s Office, when he seized the materials of the Poshtova Square proceedings.
...The Office of the Prosecutor General 21 May 2026 year reported that it did not see factual data that could indicate specific criminal offenses by prosecutors. The information was not entered into the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations, an internal inquiry was not appointed, the circumstances of suspicion regarding the deceased Kyslytsyn were not checked, and the roles of Maria Vdovychenko and Rustam Mamoyan were left without assessment.
- writes journalist and activist Annabella Morina
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