MISHUSTIN, M. V.

A career tax official, Mishustin headed the Russian Federal Tax Service from 2010 to 2020 — a tenure widely credited (in international financial press) with successfully digitising tax collection and tightening enforcement. Appointed Prime Minister by Vladimir Putin in January 2020, replacing Dmitry Medvedev. Has served as PM continuously since.

Mishustin is the technocrat face of the Russian government: he signs the federal budget into execution, oversees ministerial coordination, and represents Russia at events like the Eurasian Economic Union summits. Politically, he is regarded as significantly less powerful than the Kremlin's «siloviki» (Patrushev, Sechin), but every line of the budget audited in this publication passes through his signature as PM.

The 2020 Project investigation documented family assets — registered to his wife, children, and mother-in-law — exceeding the Prime Minister's declared income by more than two orders of magnitude: an Istra estate of ≈ 1,200 m², elite Moscow apartments on Kosygin Street and in the historic «House on the Embankment», and land totalling over 9 hectares (≈ $33 mn combined). The source of funds is not explained by the official declaration. Separately, iStories («The Premier's Brother-in-Law», 2020) documented assets controlled by Alexander Udodov — husband of Mishustin's sister Natalya — through UD Group: commercial real estate, retail centres, banking and logistics stakes, with combined value estimated at ≈ $600 mn USD. iStories tied Udodov to large-scale VAT refunds during Mishustin's tenure as head of the Federal Tax Service.