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Russia's anti-corruption crusaders say the new National Guard chief owns almost 10 million dollars in real estate

Alexey Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation says it's uncovered data showing that Zhanna Zolotova (the daughter of Viktor Zolotov, the head of the newly minted National Guard), owns a 500-square-meter (5,380-square-foot) apartment in southwestern Moscow.

According to Navalny's group, the market value of one square meter (11 square feet) in the building where Zolotov's daughter owns an apartment is roughly $11,000, meaning her entire home is worth roughly $5 million. 

Zolotova is married to Yuri Chechikhin, a film and television producer. The newspaper Novaya Gazeta recently published a list of all property holdings by Viktor Zolotov and his relatives, but a $5-million apartment doesn't appear anywhere in that information. Zolotov has, however, declared two homes of his own, including one that's more than 1,000 square meters (10,700 square feet).

Navalny says Zolotov owns the former home of Anastas Mikoyan, a Soviet statesman who served as first deputy chairman of the USSR's Council of Ministers for nearly a decade in the Khrushchev era. Navalny estimates that all the real estate owned by Zolotov and his family is worth roughly 663 million rubles ($9.8 million).

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