Member of Parliament Suto Mamoyan Cleans the Internet of Mentions of Family Business Interests, Luxury Assets, and the Controversial Development of Poshtova Square

Member of Parliament Suto Mamoyan cleans the internet of mentions of family business interests, luxury assets, and the controversial development of Poshtova Square

People’s Deputy Suto Mamoyan is cleaning the internet of mentions about his own activities, luxury assets, and connections to law enforcement. Posts about criminal proceedings, data from declarations, stories about real estate and cars, as well as materials about Mamoyan and his family’s ties to law enforcement and influential people are disappearing from the web.

We, for our part, publish the investigation that is so bothersome to Mamoyan and sheds light on his dubious assets, ties to law enforcement, and influence schemes.

As the Telegram channel “Ukrainskyi Obozrevatel” recently reported, Mamoyan Suto Choloyovych, a deputy from OPZZh, will soon try to push “his” person into leadership of the SBU in the Zakarpattia region.

And here the question arises — who is Suto Mamoyan that he has the ability to so radically influence the appointment of Security Service of Ukraine heads in the country’s key regions? After all, we have four hundred and fifty members of parliament, but not all have the weight to influence the SBU. And he’s even an opposition deputy. Let’s try to figure out this issue.

Suto Choloyovych Mamoyan was born 1981. By nationality — Yazidi (this detail is only to understand why he has such a name and must not be interpreted otherwise). People’s Deputy of Ukraine from OPZZh, he ran at number 33 on the party list. In 2015 he was a deputy of the Poltava Regional Council from Serhiy Kaplin’s “Party of Simple People.” He lives in the Makariv district of Kyiv region. Education — secondary. That is — school and that’s it. But that did not prevent Suto Choloyovych from becoming a senior civil servant, as members of parliament are. However — such was the people’s choice. Moreover, having a university diploma in modern Ukraine means only one thing — the person has money. So it’s unclear which is better — honestly saying one didn’t attend university or presenting a bought diploma. And the lack of higher education, against the backdrop of Mamoyan’s other “achievements,” is a mere trifle.

Before we move on to describing those achievements, let us recall that the deputy’s father — Cholo Ashoyovych Mamoyan — is a businessman, founder of several food companies. His younger brother, Serhiy Mamoyan, was a deputy of the Poltava Regional Council from the Social Democratic Party in the previous convocation. Last, 2020, he became a deputy of the Kyiv City Council from OPZZh.

Another relative of the deputy — Rustam Sutko (he took this surname instead of the family name “Mamoyan”) — oversees the State Bureau of Investigation’s activities within the Prosecutor General’s Office. Rustam’s wife, Nataliya, was directly connected to Rinat Akhmetov, working in his companies, namely LLC “Stadion Shakhtar” and “Donbas Arena.” Nataliya’s biological father, Volodymyr Kovalevskyi, served as head of the National Agency for Euro-2012 preparations.

Now a bit about the “achievements” from before he was a member of parliament. Suto Mamoyan has a criminal case in his biography. And while most of his colleagues were involved in strictly economic crimes, Mamoyan Choloyovych is a simple man — in 2007 the militia detained him for, with an accomplice, forcibly putting a Dynamo FC instructor into his Mercedes, beating him, and demanding one thousand dollars. The case under the articles “Extortion,” “Robbery,” and “Document Theft” languished in investigations and courts until 2013, when it suddenly “turned out” that the friends had not beaten anyone but had stood up for an unknown girl to whom a bad person from “Dynamo” sold an old mobile phone as if it were new. And his relative in the Prosecutor General’s Office simply helped establish the “real” circumstances of the case.

Additionally, in 2009 another criminal case was opened against Suto Mamoyan — for an accident that resulted in a person’s death. According to the case materials, Suto Mamoyan 21 August 2008, moving along a highway at 139 km/h, collided with a minibus, as a result of which the minibus driver died from his injuries. But here, too, the court showed leniency — the person found guilty, Mamoyan, received a punishment not involving imprisonment. He was given a two-year probationary term.

None of this prevented the OPZZh congress from including Mamoyan Suto on its electoral list, and voters gave that list enough votes for Mamoyan Choloyovych to receive a parliamentary mandate. And almost immediately he became the subject of a new scandal. Whether it was because of his education or a cruel joke played by the transparency of his mind and failure to understand that he became a public figure and should at least take that into account — it’s unknown. But People’s Deputy Mamoyan filed, like other civil servants, a declaration of his income. And he listed a small car fleet of three vehicles: two Toyota Land Cruisers 200 and a Mercedes Benz G63. The purchase of new prestigious cars by newly elected servants of the people no longer surprises anyone.

But Suto Choloyovych managed to surprise even experienced colleagues and journalists. Judging by his declaration, he bought the Land Cruisers at the price of shabby Tavrias — each cost him 20 000 (Twenty thousand) hryvnias. That is — 800 dollars. The Mercedes somehow cost much more — 3 900 000 hryvnias.

To understand the real cost of a Toyota Land Cruiser, no special effort is required — just go to AUTO.RIA, where even a burned Land Cruiser costs half a million. Not to mention year-old undamaged cars.

Also, on 27 June 2019, Suto Mamoyan became the owner of two apartments in the capital in the Zarichnyi residential complex on the Dnipro River, with areas of 124,7 and 125,1 square meters. According to the declaration, he bought them for 500 000 hryvnias each. Although the market price (which is by no means a secret) for such properties is 1 200 dollars per square meter. How much the deputy deceived the state is not hard to calculate if you multiply the apartments’ areas by the real cost.

A blatant, even brazen lie in the declaration was the basis for NABU to open a pretrial investigation against Suto Mamoyan last July into the criminal offense of knowingly submitting false data in a declaration. But almost a year has passed, and, as you understand, the cart is still in the same place.

Therefore, it’s no surprise that Mamoyan was among the deputies who appealed to the Constitutional Court to recognize criminal liability for lies in declarations as unconstitutional.

Another interesting story is connected to one of Mamoyan Suto’s cars — the person who harassed former Health Minister Ulana Suprun in June 2020 was driving one of them.

“This evening near my house an unknown person very brazenly tried to photograph me, poking his phone into my face. He behaved extremely impudently, as if wanting to scare me,” Suprun said then and filed a police report. What happened to him, you can guess. We mean the report, of course, not the person.

Suto Choloyovych also distinguished himself in the city’s nightlife. During quarantine, when ordinary people were caught on beaches and mercilessly fined for not wearing masks in the woods, Mamoyan partied with his colleagues in the company of merry girls and the thief-in-law Nodar Rustavskyi (Nodar Asoyan) at the club “Queen”:

According to media reports, Suto Mamoyan ensures a quiet life for Nodar Rustavskyi. The deputy allegedly pays 500 thousand dollars a month to senior Interior Ministry leadership so that law enforcement does not notice the well-known thief-in-law on Ukrainian territory.

Which, you’ll agree, is striking.

Especially against the backdrop of the deputy’s declaration, where he indicated that he earned 1 186 485 hryvnias for 2019 year, that is roughly 44 thousand dollars. Or the fee for eleven days of quiet life for his authoritative friend. By the way, one million hryvnias of that “earnings” was “gifted” to him by his mother, Mamoyan Gyavaz Badrivna, a pensioner. Maybe past years’ savings help — Suto Mamoyan declared 2 300 000 dollars, 2 600 000 hryvnias and 340 000 euros.

And since we’re again talking about the deputy’s relatives, it’s worth recalling that his father, Cholo Ashoyovych, is implicated in the scandal around the development of Poshtova Square.

He owns two “Kompot” cafes on that square and he (together with his whole family) was a participant in attempts to build a shopping and entertainment center on that site, which would have destroyed unique archaeological finds. True, in May 2019 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine granted Poshtova Square the status of a national archaeological monument, which somewhat curbed developers’ appetites. But the story of the mall construction is by no means over — criminal proceeding No.12015100120001272 on the attempt to destroy the monument, which was led by the Podil District Prosecutor’s Office and in which the surname Mamoyan repeatedly surfaced, was requested into the jurisdiction of the Prosecutor General’s Office. Where, as you recall, Rustam Sutko works. The one who gave up the family name Mamoyan and is the brother of Suto Choloyovych. And the son of Cholo Ashoyovych. And after Suto became a People’s Deputy, the family’s positions strengthened significantly. So we await the continuation of the development story.

As we also await the People’s Deputy Suto Choloyovych Mamoyan’s declaration for 2020, the filing deadline for which expires in a few days. It will be interesting to see what car and what apartment he bought last year. And how much they cost him this time.