Sudarikov Sergey Nikolaevich

Sudarikov Sergey Nikolaevich

Biography

Born in 1971 in Moscow.

Education

1993 - Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics

1999 - All-Russian Correspondence Financial and Economic Institute, specialty "Finance and Credit."

Career

He began his activities in the financial market in 1994. He has worked in the REGION Group of Companies since its inception in 1995.

1996 - trader, head of the trading department, deputy general director at the Investment Company. "REGION"

In 1997, he was appointed commercial director of the REGION Investment Company.

Since 2001 - General Director of IK REGION. In the same year he became one of the shareholders of the company.

2002 - Member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Stock Market Participants (NAUFOR).

2003 - Member of the Board of Directors of Financial and Industrial Bank.

In 2011, he became the key owner of the REGION group, a member of the board of directors of the REGION Group of Companies. On August 16, 2013, he was also the general director and partner of IC REGION.

In October 2019, he headed Concern ROSSIUM LLC.

On January 27, 2020, Vyacheslav Sheloputov replaced Sergey Sudarikov as general director of the Rossium concern.

2021: Loss of 1 million rubles as a result of fraud

In mid-December 2021, it became known about the telephone fraud faced by billionaire Sergei Sudarikov. The owner of the Region group of companies and co-owner of the Rossium concern transferred a considerable amount to the attackers.

According to Ren TV, Sergey Sudarikov turned to the police with a statement in which he wrote that he received a call from a man who introduced himself as an acquaintance and asked to transfer funds for the treatment of the child. The businessman agreed and transferred about 1 million rubles from his account. Sudarikov realized that he was deceived when he tried to find out how the treatment was going.

Telephone fraudsters deceived Russian billionaire Sergei Sudarikov

On this fact, law enforcement officers opened a criminal case under the article on fraud. As part of the investigation, a number of operational investigative measures were appointed in order to establish the identity and location of the attacker, as well as his capture.

Forbes magazine estimates Sergey Sudarikov's fortune at $1.2 billion by December 2021.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, by 2021 the most popular type of telephone fraud is a call with a message about a relative in trouble. As part of this scam, often a fraudster who appears to be a law enforcement officer says that a certain amount of money is needed to solve the problem.

The director of the technical department of the RTM Group, Fedor Muzalevsky, in a conversation with Vedomosti, noted that trust in the caller over the phone is a key component of the success of attackers using social engineering methods. A person may know about the existence of telephone fraud and be alert, but a confident tone of the caller, a call by name and fake photos of any official document can make the victim believe the attackers and report confidential information or transfer money to their account, agreed the chief expert of Kaspersky Lab Sergey Golovanov.^[1]

Awards

Repeatedly entered the rating of "TOP-1000 Russian managers," including in 2016-2019 entered the top three leaders of the nomination "Top Leaders. Financial sector "