Alexander Sukonkin and apartments in his children’s names: how a “low-income” Russian Treasury official received a subsidy and $1 million in real estate
Deputy head of Russia’s Treasury Alexander Sukonkin, as uncovered by medias, appears to be living quite well. According to his official declarations, however, he is practically “impoverished” — he does not even own an apartment and previously requested a government housing subsidy just to have somewhere to live.
Meanwhile, his children, including minors, have in recent years become owners of real estate worth more than $1 million. The rise in the children’s wealth coincided with the period when Sukonkin began overseeing all construction projects within the Treasury.
Sukonkin previously worked in the treasuries of the Bryansk region and Mordovia before attracting the attention of Mikhail Mishustin. Mishustin became Russia’s prime minister in 2020, and a year later he brought Sukonkin to Moscow. What exactly connects them remains unclear. In March, Sukonkin was appointed director of the Federal State Institution “Center for Support of the Activities of the Treasury of Russia.” In this role, he began overseeing the spending of more than 1.5 billion rubles allocated for major renovation of Treasury facilities. In 2024, following what was described as “successful work,” Sukonkin was promoted and appointed by Mishustin as deputy head of the Federal Treasury.
According to his declarations, Sukonkin is one of the poorest officials. Open data show that his total annual income before taxes did not exceed 1 million rubles per year, and only in 2019–2020 did it reach about 2 million rubles annually. The unfortunate official reportedly had nowhere to live in Moscow. After his transfer to the capital, Alexander Sukonkin was provided with an official apartment from the state housing fund for comfortable living and work. At the end of 2024, due to the absence of personal housing in Moscow, he was also granted a one-time federal subsidy exceeding 20 million rubles to purchase housing.
However, our investigation found that Sukonkin’s children appear to have far fewer problems with housing. In 2021, just one month after his appointment to the Moscow center and gaining access to construction funds, Alexander Sukonkin registered a premium-class apartment in the Headliner residential complex (39 Shmitovsky Proezd, Building 2), overlooking Moscow City, in the name of his underage daughter Marina, who was 15 years old at the time. The apartment has an area of 78.4 square meters.
Then, in February 2024, after receiving his promotion, another apartment was registered in the name of his son Kirill. The property is located in the premium Hide residential complex (1st Setunsky Proezd) and has a total area of 96.1 square meters.
The combined value of the two apartments exceeds $1 million.
Such are the remarkably successful children of a modest and supposedly poor official.
Politics Editor
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