en.Wedoany.com Reported - The Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo) sold the grain trader "Rodnye Polya" (formerly TD "RIF") at a starting price of 11.7 billion rubles. According to data from the state information system "Torgi" portal, the sole bidder, joint-stock company "Tiara Holding" (AO "Tiara Holding"), was declared the winner. The assets of the target enterprise include 9 river-sea class vessels, 2 oil tankers, 1,640 grain hopper cars, as well as the Azov grain terminal complex (current storage capacity of 108,000 tons, daily loading capacity of 31,000 tons, annual cargo handling capacity exceeding 3.5 million tons) and other infrastructure.

The enterprise was initially listed in early March at the same starting price with a bid increment of 585 million rubles, but received no bids; a second auction in May also failed to take place. TD "RIF" had long been Russia's largest grain exporter. In 2024, due to multiple detections of quarantine objects by the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance in exported grain batches, which failed to meet importing countries' requirements, the company suspended supplies and fell into financial difficulties. In January 2025, the Arbitration Court of Rostov Region approved a lawsuit by the Prosecutor General's Office to nationalize 100% of the company's shares, citing that the beneficial owner, Pyotr Khodkin, held dual citizenship in Russia and Saint Kitts and Nevis, and that foreign residents' participation in "Rodnye Polya," considered a strategic enterprise, required special government permission. Since May 2025, the company has been managed by "RSKhB-finance," a subsidiary of Rosselkhozbank. In February of this year, the government included it in the 2026-2028 privatization plan.

According to Rusprofile data, in 2025, the revenue of the limited liability company "Rodnye Polya" fell from 99 billion rubles to 2.3 billion rubles, a 43-fold decrease, with a loss of 6.4 billion rubles, compared to a profit of 5.6 billion rubles in the same period of 2024. The company's valuation dropped from 17 billion rubles to 11 billion rubles. The winning bidder, joint-stock company "Tiara Holding," was registered in Moscow in April last year with an authorized capital of 10,000 rubles. The Unified State Register of Legal Entities does not disclose founder information. Its main business is holding company activities, with other operations covering maritime cargo transportation and seaport infrastructure operations.