The Arbitration Court of the Rostov Region fully satisfied the claim of the grain trader "Native Fields" (formerly "RIF Trading House" LLC) against the former owner Pyotr Khodykin for the recovery of 24 billion rubles in dividends from him, the correspondent reports "Interfax" from the courtroom.
“To recover 24 billion rubles from Pyotr Viktorovich Khodykin in favor of Rodnye Polya LLC,” the judge said.
During the meeting, the defendant’s side filed a number of petitions, including for the request of evidence, the involvement as third parties of the government of the Rostov region and the administration of Rostov-on-Don (according to the representative of the defendant, their interests will also be affected when the claim is satisfied), the new owner of the grain trader - JSC Tiara Holding, an examination of whether the company was a strategic enterprise at the time of filing the claim, as well as the challenge of the judge.
The plaintiff objected. The court refused to satisfy the requests.
The defendant's side also insisted that the company cannot challenge the payment of dividends. According to Khodykin’s representative, this could be done by another member of the company, if there was one, but not by the company itself.
As reported, in March, Rodnye Polya filed a claim with the Arbitration Court of the Rostov Region against Khodykin to invalidate a number of decisions of the sole participant of TD RIF LLC, adopted in July-December 2023, on the distribution of dividends in favor of Khodykin, and the recovery of 24 billion rubles from him in favor of the company. At the same time, Rodnye Polya in court obtained the seizure of movable and the real estate of the ex-owner in this case is within 24 billion rubles.
Moreover, during one of the meetings, representatives of the defendant stated that 20.399 billion rubles were transferred to Khodykin, the rest of the funds were personal income tax. In this regard, in their opinion, it is incorrect to collect 24 billion rubles from Khodykin.
The plaintiff's representative, in turn, motivated the filing of the claim by an earlier court decision on the recovery of 100% of the company's shares into the income of the Russian Federation. According to him, “corporate rights to manage the company were not transferred to the defendant on the basis of a void transaction, and he did not have the right to make decisions on the distribution of dividends in 2023 in the amount of 24 billion rubles.” In addition, the company considers the recovery of paid dividends as recovery of losses that “were caused by the foreign investor Khodykin.”
In turn, representatives of the defendant at a meeting on September 17 stated that the payment of dividends cannot be regarded as losses, and also that Khodykin renounced foreign citizenship, and therefore he cannot be considered a foreign investor.
According to a report assessing the market value of the company (done in October 2025), in 2021 and 2022 the grain trader did not distribute net profit, and later distributed it for 2017-2023 to pay dividends in the amount of 24 billion rubles. In this regard, it is likely that Rodnye Polye’s claim concerns the distribution of profits for 2017-2023.
Rodnye Polya LLC was seized in favor of the Russian Federation based on a claim from the Prosecutor General's Office filed at the end of 2024; from February 2025, the owner of the company became the Federal Property Management Agency, then the asset came under the management of one of the structures of Rosselkhozbank. Two months after the company was transferred to the Federal Property Management Agency, the grain trader appointed a new director instead of Marina Turyanskaya, who had headed the company since 2018.
The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation noted that the grain trader is a strategic business company (its share in the grain transshipment market in the seaport of Azov, according to the department, exceeds 20%). At the same time, in violation of the law, a group of persons with the participation of offshore companies established foreign control over Rodnye Polya LLC, and the ultimate beneficiary of the company was (at that time) a citizen of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis and a resident of the UAE Khodykin.
Khodykin tried in court to challenge the decision of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation to recognize the grain trader as a strategic enterprise. The courts rejected both the application and the appeal. He also failed to challenge the decision to collect the trader for the income of the Russian Federation.
LLC "Trading House "RIF" was created for the purchase and sale of agricultural products on the domestic market of Russia and export, for a number of years it was a leader in the export of Russian grain. In April 2024, the company changed its name to LLC "Rodnye Polya".
The grain trader was included in the privatization plan for 2026-2028. In July of this year, JSC Tiara Holding acquired the company from the Federal Property Management Agency for 11.7 billion rubles; the corresponding changes were made to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities on September 7.
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