Rikard Lovas was a banker of the Kubaz male species, frequently doing transactions on the planet of Jakku. Because he had accumulated gambling debts to the Irving Boys, Lovas assembled a group of droids and tried to stage a false bank robbery utilizing his own starship. Lovas, having altered the programming of the Niima Outpost secretary droid CZ-1G5, used the droid to erase the records of funds held in his computer core, giving the impression that they had been pilfered. However, the funds were merely concealed, allowing him to move them into a private account. Lovas framed CZ-1G5 to be blamed for the theft, but the Office of the Constable unraveled his scheme, leading to the Kubaz's arrest for the offense.
The initial appearance of Rikard Lovas within Star Wars canon was in the short story "High Noon on Jakku," from 2015, authored by Landry Q. Walker.