On February 25, four members of the Supervisory Board of Imedi TV Company, including Irakli Rukhadze, applied to the Public Registry with a request to leave the Supervisory Board.

According to documents posted on the Public Registry’s Business Register, the following requested to leave the Supervisory Board:

Chairman of the Supervisory Board Irakli Rukhadze, Deputy Chairman of the Board Giorgi Kalandarishvili, as well as members Giorgi Bakhtadze and Davit Shonia.

“I would like to inform you that in connection with the change in the company’s ownership, I have made a decision to leave the position of Chairman/Member of the Supervisory Board of Imedi TV LLC based on a personal statement. Please ensure that the fact is registered in the company's internal documentation, as well as in the public registry and other relevant authorized bodies (if any)," reads Irakli Rukhadze's statement.

In the documents submitted to the public registry, they request that the applications be satisfied in an expedited manner, on the same day of the application, for which they paid 414 GEL per person.

On February 6, businessman Irakli Rukhadze released a statement about the withdrawal of Honeywell Partners from TV Imedi. As Rukhadze noted, “After long and intense consultations with our partners, we decided that in the current situation, the most reasonable solution is to say goodbye to Imedi.” According to him, Prime Media Global, which has been cooperating with Imedi for many years on the sale of advertising, will acquire 50% of Imedi, while 50% will be transferred to the ownership of Imedi’s General Director, Maka Lomidze, and her 4 deputies.

For information, on February 24, the UK imposed sanctions on the TV companies Imedi and POSTV. According to the UK government, Imedi and POSTV were sanctioned as “organizations involved in the spread of Russian disinformation.” The sanctions imposed by the UK include an asset freeze, a ban on financial services for asset management, and the disqualification of the director. The sanctions document states that Imedi and POSTV "are deliberately spreading misleading information about Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine to their audience, which is mainly represented in Georgia."