The Solomyansky District Court of Kyiv granted a Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) investigator permission to inspect the Inter TV headquarters located at 30 Dmytrivska Street in Kyiv.
The ruling was passed on 6 November 2025, Sudovyi Reporter reports.
The permission was granted as part of a criminal law investigation into the TV channels’ change of owner. The probe is being conducted on the grounds of document forgery (Part 1 of Article 358 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and funding of terrorism (Part 3 of Article 258-5 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
An expert found that the signature of the former Inter TV owner, Ihor Pluzhnykov, on the digital scan of the letter of authority dated 23 May 2005, was not made by Pluzhnykov but by another person. Still, the letter of authority provided grounds for the alienation of Inter’s shares in favor of Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi’s association Dilovyi Svit a month before Pluzhnykov’s death.
Moreover, in 2015, businessman Dmytro Firtash bought 29% of the Inter TV shares from Russia’s Pervyi Kanal for $100 million. Pervyi Kanal works to undermine Ukraine and promotes terrorists and separatists, so the SBU considers such actions as funding of terrorism.
The investigator designated the authorised capital and property of Inter TV as material evidence in criminal law proceedings. This includes the company’s headquarters on Dmytrivska Street in Kyiv, with an area of 6264.7 sq. m.
The investigator requested permission to inspect the premises to estimate the value of the property. The court’s ruling mentions that material evidence worth more than 200 subsistence minimums for able-bodied persons is to be transferred to the National Asset Management Agency.
Today, Firtash is Inter TV’s majority owner. As of April 2024, his stake was 59.5%, according to official data.
In May 2023, the SBU issued suspicion notices to Dmytro Firtash and his top managers for embezzling 18 billion hryvnias worth of gas from the state. 7.4 billion hryvnias of Firtash’s assets were seized in Ukraine.
Ukraine imposed targeted sanctions on Firtash in 2021, including an asset freeze.