Now the share of Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash in Inter has increased from 53.4 to 59.5%.
In July 2023, businessman Dmitry Firtash bought Sergei Levochkin’s share in ChAO TV channel Inter and changed the management of the company in November. This was reported on the channel’s website and the Group DF website.
Previously, Levochkin was a minority shareholder of the TV channel, owning 20% of the Cypriot GDF Media Limited (which, together with Valery Khoroshkovsky’s KH Media Limited, owns 90% of the TV channel ) by Ovitilio Ltd.
In July 2023, Levochkin ceased to be the main participant in the entity as a result of the sale of 100% of the shares of Ovitilio Ltd in favor of Group DF Holdings Limited. So, Firtash took part Inter increased from 53.4% to 59.5%.
TV channel ownership structure Inter now it looks like this:
61% – LLC Ukrainian media project (both Dmitry Firtash and Valery Khoroshkovsky);
29% – Group DF Holdings (Dmitry Firtash);
10% – LLC Pegasus Television (Svetlana Pluzhnikova).
November 14 shareholders of the TV channel Inter changed the management of the company. The Chairman of the Board, Ekaterina Shkuratova, will be replaced in her position by Alexander Pilipets, who was the former director of the LLC National information system.
There were also changes in the supervisory board Inter. In particular, Anna Bezlyudnaya, who has been a representative of the LLC since 2015, left it Ukrainian media project. He will continue to work with the company at the Group DF Media level. Robert Shetler Jones remains head of the channel’s supervisory board.
Group Inter has a share of just over 5% in the Ukrainian market, far below its main competitors Starlight Media And 1+1 media four to five times.
Let’s recall that Firtash was detained in Vienna in March 2014 at the request of the US FBI, but he was released on bail of 125 million euros. Since then, he has appealed his extradition to the United States.
Firtash is accused of bribing Indian officials a total of $18.5 million to obtain licenses to develop titanium deposits in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The Ukrainian oligarch faces up to 50 years in prison and confiscation of all assets.
In June 2023, the Higher Regional Court of Vienna rejected the US request to extradite Firtash.
Source: korrespondent
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