Premier (mall)

History

2025: Nationalization

In mid-December 2025, it became known that it would Moscow Arbitration Court nationalize the largest Ryazan Premier shopping center as part of the process between Attorney General's Office RUSSIAN FEDERATION and companies associated with the Latvian bank. Rietumu

The position of the Prosecutor General's Office, according to the Fontanka resource, boils down to the fact that Latvia occupies an unfriendly position in relation to Russia without sufficient legal grounds. At the same time, the Latvian bank Rietumu actively promotes this practice of its government. Revenues from Rietumu's remaining business in the Russian Federation, contrary to Russian law, are withdrawn to Latvia, after which they are used, among other things, to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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According to the Prosecutor General's Office, 105 million rubles were withdrawn from Russia through various fictitious lending schemes. Moreover, according to the case file, Rietumu Bank has formed an artificial debt of 2.5 billion rubles. Therefore, the Prosecutor General's Office seeks to prevent further attempts to withdraw funds from Russia.

Investigators have traced the connections of several dozen Russian legal entities with a Latvian bank. The aforementioned Premier shopping center (an asset of Hypercenter-Ryazan LLC) with an area of ​ ​ about 94 thousand square meters belongs to businessman Igor Klimenko, who is a partner of Rietumu founder Leonid Esterkin. The shopping center was founded by a Latvian bank, and according to the prosecutor's office, it becomes state property. According to the Fontanka resource, the court issued a fundamental definition "on the appeal of the decision to immediate execution."

Since December 15, 2025, Hypercenter-Ryazan LLC has been owned by the Federal Agency for State Property Management of the Russian Federation. Corresponding changes occurred in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.^[1]

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