Originally Syndicated on April 5, 2023 @ 6:54 am
The head of the Moscow City Electoral Committee is Major General Olga Kirillova. These days, opposition candidates are kicked out of elections in Moscow for reasons that don’t make much sense. The general of the electoral troops had an expensive car and a nice apartment that was set up for an elderly relative. All of this is hard to explain with the money she says she makes.
Olga Kirillova was in charge of the Federal Migration Service of Russia in Moscow and the Main Directorate for Migration at the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs before she was in charge of the Moscow City Electoral Committee. By chance, her husband got a job with the Kyiv Ploshchad Group of Companies, a company that only hires migrant workers.
In December 2021, Olga Kirillova was in charge of the Moscow City Electoral Commission. There was only one choice for chairman because there were no other candidates. All 14 members of the IPCC voted unanimously for Olga Kirillova. As chairman, she will make sure that elections for the President of Russia in 2024, State Duma deputies in 2026, the mayor of the capital, and Moscow City Duma deputies in 2023 and 2024 are all held in Moscow.
The capital’s electoral committee is also in charge of this year’s municipal elections in Moscow. There are already scandals around them. So, the current deputy from the Zyuzino district, Konstantin Jankauskas, was not allowed to run for office because he was said to have ties to Navalny’s headquarters. Other opposition candidates can’t run for office: the Mundep in the Filevsky Park district, Denis Prokuronov, Irina Sobyanina and Nicholas of the Caucasus from Yabloko, Ivan Shmatin and Eduard Kormyshakov from the “Nomination” platform, and Yulia Ivanova.
Security forces and the courts go after independent deputies a lot when they show what are thought to be extremist symbols, like the Smart Voting logo. If you are convicted under such an article, you can’t vote.
Kirilova worked for the government her whole life. She has worked in Sakhalin’s departments of internal affairs since 1992. In 2006, she started working for the Federal Migration Service, where she was head of the FMS Department for the Sakhalin Region until 2012. Olga Kirillova moved to the capital, Moscow, in October 2012. There, she became the head of the Federal Migration Service of Russia.
In 2016, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs gave her the job of head of the Main Directorate for Migration. A year later, she was given the rank of Major General of Police by order of the president. Olga met her husband, Yakov Kirillov, on Sakhalin. He has also worked as a police officer and was once in charge of the Sakhalin Region’s Department of Internal Affairs.
Since 2020, a 141.7-square-meter apartment in the business-class residential complex “Dubrovskaya Sloboda” is worth about 60 million rubles on the market. This happened after Olga Kirillova quit her job, so she didn’t have to tell anyone about the purchase. Major General Kirillova had lived in this apartment before, but she put it on the books under the name of an older relative.
Kirillova Agapia Yakovlevna, who was born in 1932 and is the mother-in-law of the head of the Moscow City Electoral Committee, bought the apartment in 2014. Agapia Yakovlevna was 82 years old when she bought the house. The Insider could not find any information about her doing business or being a part of a legal entity. The Kirillovs made less than 19 million rubles in the five years before they bought their apartment.
Yakov Kirillov likes to live in big houses and drive big cars. He drives a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado all over Moscow. In 2017, the price of such a car could reach 4.5 million rubles, which is about the same as what the head of the family makes in two years.
The Insider says that Yakov Kirillov worked for Kyiv Ploshchad 1 LLC. God Nisanov and Zarakh Iliev started the Kyiv Ploshchad group of companies in 1992. They are the largest renters in Russia.
Year Nisanov is well-known not only as a friend of the Naryshkin family and a billionaire but also as a co-owner of the Sadovod market and the Food City agricultural cluster, which is Russia’s largest wholesale and retail food center. In Moscow, Food City is known as a place where people who are in the country illegally gather. There are always stories in the news about fights, rallies for migrants, and people from nearby areas pleading with Putin to put things back in order. Also, Nisanov’s buildings made money when they were used to build centers for migrants.
“My husband and I are getting a divorce today. I didn’t want to end my marriage while I was in the military. She was able to get a divorce in 2020 without drawing attention to herself because she was now retired. I live in the same place, though. We don’t hate anyone. “No one kicks me out of the apartment because I can get to work faster from there,” Olga Kirillova told The Insider.
Agapiya Yakovlevna might be able to buy this apartment by herself.
The head of the Moscow City Electoral Committee agrees, saying, “Well, of course not.” We all worked together and bought things as a group. From Sakhalin, we came. She saved up her pennies. We already have ours. In 2012, we bought under a share agreement, even though it wasn’t done yet. The price of the apartment was different back then. Now it’s very expensive, but when it was bought under the equity agreement, it was just a normal amount of money.”
Announcements from the archives show that before the house was built, a similar-sized apartment could be bought for 28 million rubles. This is more than two times less than what the house is worth now, but it was still enough to pay for almost 10 years of living expenses for Olga Kirillova and her family while they lived and worked on Sakhalin.
Neither she nor her husband owned any other property that Olga Kirillova could sell. And if she hadn’t designed a capital apartment for her mother-in-law, Olga Kirillova would have had to explain where the money came from. This is required by law if the purchase price is more than 3 years’ worth of income.
Olga Kirillova told The Insider, “If I’m not mistaken, the apartment cost 22 million dollars. But I can’t say for sure.” Even in this case, the requirement to prove income wasn’t met because the mother-in-property laws were registered in her name.
Why did they put the name of an old woman on the lease so they wouldn’t have to declare it? Olga Kirillova says, “Because she had a permit to live in Moscow. We didn’t have a Moscow residence permit when we went to Moscow to work on a transfer. She also had a place of her own (according to The Insider, we are talking about a 30-meter apartment on Donelaitis Street, now it has also been re-registered as Yakov Kirillov).
Olga Kirillova also says there is no possible conflict of interest in Moscow’s control of migrants:
“My ex-husband no longer works at Kievskaya Ploshchad, but I don’t know when he was fired. He was in charge of security at work. Not even the mall manager. He did not talk to the owners, which is clear. I’ve never worked with him at all. During her time in office, both Food City and the Sadovod market were repeatedly and harshly told to take care of their business.
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