The Anti-Corruption Foundation has released a new investigation into Ella Pamfilova, who has headed Russia’s Central Election Commission for the past ten years.

We found that the Russian state gave Pamfilova a 237-square-meter apartment in central Moscow for free, which was later registered in the name of her 24-year-old granddaughter, Irina Kezina. ACF estimates the property’s market value at around 200 million rubles.

The apartment is located at 12 Rochdelskaya Street, in a building constructed for senior Russian officials. Its residents include Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Sberbank CEO German Gref, Constitutional Court Chairman Valery Zorkin, as well as relatives of former senior officials Sergei Ivanov and Alexander Zhukov.

The investigation also looks at how Russia’s electoral system has changed under Pamfilova. During her tenure, the Central Election Commission refused to register opposition candidates, oversaw the 2020 vote on constitutional amendments that reset Vladimir Putin’s presidential term limits, and expanded multi-day and electronic voting.

After the latest State Duma election, Pamfilova described it as the best election conducted during her ten years in office. ACF’s investigation examines how her role at the head of Russia’s electoral system has coincided with a major personal benefit for her family.