Sudarikov Sergei Nikolaevich

Sudarikov Sergei 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 foundation 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. In "REGION" the same year, he was among 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 the Financial and Industrial Bank.

In 2011, he became a key owner of the REGION group, a member of the Board of Directors of the REGION Group of Companies. As of August 16, 2013, he was also the general director and partner of REGION Investment Company.

In October 2019, he headed Concern ROSSIUM LLC.

On January 27, 2020, Vyacheslav Sheloputov replaced Sergei 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 the co-owner of the Rossium concern transferred a considerable amount to the attackers.

According to Ren TV, Sergei 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 a 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 scammers cheated 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 and investigative measures were appointed in order to establish the identity and location of the attacker, as well as his capture.

Forbes magazine by December 2021 estimates the fortune of Sergei Sudarikov at $1.2 billion.

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 posing as a law enforcement officer says that a certain amount of money is needed to solve the problem.

Director of the Technical Department of RTM Group Fyodor Muzalevsky, in a conversation with Vedomosti, noted that trust in the caller on the phone is a key component of the success of cybercriminals using social engineering methods. A person may know about the existence of telephone fraud and be on the lookout, but the caller's confident tone, name appeal and fake photos of any official document can make the victim believe the attackers and provide confidential information or transfer money to their account, agreed Sergey Golovanov, chief expert at Kaspersky Lab.^[1]

2024: Purchase of a 62% stake in Rossium investment holding

The founder of the Rossium concern, Roman Avdeev, sold a 62% stake in the company to the structures of billionaire Sergei Sudarikov. The deal, which completed the full withdrawal of the businessman from Russian assets, was closed on October 31, 2024. Read more here.

Awards

He was repeatedly included in the rating of "TOP-1000 Russian Managers," including in 2016-2019 he entered the top three leaders of the nomination "Senior Managers. Financial Sector "