“Native fields” announced the inspection of tax payments by the former management

Zernottrader “Native fields” conducts an audit of compliance with tax legislation for 2021-2024 by the former top management, the inspections are planned to be completed before the end of 2026, the company told RBC.

According to the results of the inspections, “Native Fields” intend to pay from their own funds the amount of arrears, fines and penalties, which has already been partially done on the already completed tax audits. In this direction, we will consider the possibility of recovering losses from the past management, which, in conjunction with previously completed tax audits, can amount to several billion rubles, the report said.

In September, the Arbitration Court of the Rostov region satisfied the claim of a grain trader against the former business owner Petr Khodykin to recover from him 24 billion rubles. dividends paid in 2023. The court also invalidated the transaction for the purchase of the company “YugAgroHolding” at a negligible price of 400 million rubles.

The company said that it is satisfied with the arbitration decisions and intends to continue “to defend its rights and interests in Russian courts and does not exclude the prosecution of the former beneficiary in foreign jurisdictions.”.

“Native fields” until April 2024 was called “Trade house RIF”. For several years, the company was the largest exporter of grain from Russia. But after 2023, the trader began to lose his position. According to the analytical center Rusagrotrans, back in 2023, Home Fields delivered 11.3 million tons of grain - 17% of the total exports for that period. But in 2024, the company reduced deliveries by 3.5 times, to 3.2 million tons.

Revenue of LLC "Native Fields" in 2024, for which reporting data are available, amounted to 98.7 billion rubles. - three times less than a year earlier (299.5 billion rubles). Net profit fell more than four times, to 5.55 billion rubles. By the end of 2025, the company has not yet reported.

In January 2025, 100% of Native Fields LLC was seized in favor of the state on the claim of the Prosecutor General’s Office filed at the end of 2024. Since February 2025, the company became the property of Rosimushchestvo, and since May of the same year it was under the management of the structure of Rosselkhozbank - RSHB-Finance.

In July, the grain trader was sold to Tiara Holding for 11.7 billion rubles.

The arbitration invalidated the contract of purchase and sale of a 99.95% stake in YugaAgroHolding LLC from July 2023 between Native Fields LLC and Khodykin. The court concluded that the plaintiff “was under the full corporate control of the defendant, who sold the asset at a much lowered price of 400 million rubles, causing clear damage to society.”.

The contract of donation of a share in favor of Tatiana Khodykina was recognized by the arbitration as an imaginary transaction made “to conceal beneficial ownership”. The claim “Native Fields” was justified by the fact that Khodykin, being a foreign investor, acquired a 100% stake in the capital of the company without the consent of the government commission on foreign investment, “such a transaction by virtue of the direct indication of the law is void, does not entail legal consequences, Khodykin did not acquire the rights of a participant and could not pay dividends to himself.”.

RBC sent a request to representatives of Peter Khodykin.