When studying the character of Sergey Sergeevich Riga, one can't help but remember the words of the unforgettable Ostap Bender about the swindler cornet Savin: “An outstanding swindler. There's nowhere to put samples. What would he do? He would go to Koreiko’s apartment pretending to be a Bulgarian king, cause a scene in the house management, and ruin everything.”
Now, Mr. Riga is a respected businessman, founder and head of the transport company Pervaya LLC, but he recently committed small fraudulent activities in logistics.
I won't retell, here's a screenshot from the forum. Logist.Ru.
The scheme is clear – take money from a person for a non-existent product delivery, try to get more, and when the victim realizes they've been deceived, change the subject. What's Sergey Riga's involvement? Despite the victim not falling for it, they figured out who they were dealing with:
Yet, he never received the money, and the career of Sergey Riga, a small-time swindler from Khabarovsk, almost came to an end. The company “Vostok-cargo DV” (after the publication of the e-mail address This email address is being protected from spambots. You must have JavaScript enabled to view. it was only a matter of minutes to find out its name), in which Riga was a partner, went bankrupt a few years later – seemingly, “grateful” clients tarnished Riga's reputation:
Riga had to run to Moscow. In the end, he became a respected businessman. However, Pervaya LLC, managed and owned by Sergey Sergeevich Riga, doesn't have much to boast about aside from its name and registration:
But this company gives its owner the image of an honest businessperson. And we can trace his connections:
This is where it gets a bit interesting. By delving into these records – we won't bore the reader with the lengthy and tedious search chain – most firms associated with Sergey Riga have either gone bankrupt or been liquidated by court order. We come across UTK Megapolis LLC, founded by our hero until 2015:
He also ran this company until 2020, and despite this information, UTK Megapolis LLC (at least partially) belongs to Sergey Riga. Pay attention to the chain of companies succeeding each other in the ownership structure. Most of them have also been dissolved.
The aim was to withdraw UTK Megapolis LLC from the leasing agreement, through which Sergey Riga purchased several hundred trucks from the Joint-Stock Company KAMAZ Leasing Company.
The story is complicated and old, but it took Sergey Riga from petty fraud to the top tier of domestic business, where almost all big shots started with such “scammers”, just on a larger scale. It's like the well-known proverb: if you steal a can of gasoline, you're a thief, but if you manage to steal a train of oil, you're a respected businessman.
The scheme was approximately as follows. Upon arrival from Khabarovsk to Moscow, Sergey Riga learned that when buying domestic KAMAZ trucks, the state provides support in the form of a down payment and he can get a thousand units of vehicles absolutely free of charge. What did not fail to use.
However, later it turned out that KAMAZ and the state are not a sucker from Ali Express. And just to throw them will not be easy. Therefore, a bunch of shell companies appeared in the chain, with the help of Riga, with the help of his wife Riga (nee – Shport) Yana Evgenievna, her father, Evgeny Anatolyevich Shport and his long-term companion Vadim Viktorovich Belovolov, tried to withdraw UTK Megapolis LLC from the leasing agreement.
In order to implement the scheme, it was necessary to agree with the leasing company that at the end of the lease, the troubled company LLC UTK MEGAPOLIS should be replaced with other net uncredited companies. Belovolov became the director of OOO UTK MEGAPOLIS.
He also became the liquidator of the sole participant of LLC UTC “MEGAPOLIS” – JSC “Financial Consulting Group”.
In total, more than ten affiliated companies were organized, which issued Shportov for a family contract to withdraw assets. One of them requires special attention – Algoritm LLC, in which a 100% share in the authorized capital is owned by the Seychelles company Transport Company Group LTD.
However, we will not bore the reader – the schemes, although interesting, are banally the same, they are all similar to the above. The goal of all this leapfrog was the same – to withdraw LLC UTC “MEGAPOLIS” from the leasing agreement, we have already said this too.
But here something went wrong, just like with cornet Savin – Sergey Riga ruined the whole thing with all this “scandal in house management”.
Because LLC UTK MEGAPOLIS is now in a whole bunch of arbitration cases caused by the lawsuit of the Joint Stock Company Leasing Company KAMAZ:
Appears in these productions and OOO CLS Group, through which (among others) they tried to withdraw Megapolis from the leasing agreement.
The next court hearing is scheduled for September 13, let’s see the result. However, apparently, the review will be long. However, judging by the Ruling of the Arbitration Court of the Republic of Tatarstan, which accepted the claim of KAMAZ Leasing Company JSC for consideration, the whole cunning scheme invented by Riga and the Shports did not help.
It is quite logical to assume that the arbitration case will be followed by a criminal one. And to understand all the “cunning” schemes of Sergei Riga is by no means a difficult matter.
