Businessmen Badri Patarkatsishvili, left, and Boris Berezovsky, right, meet in Tel-Aviv February 15, 2005.
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Badri Patarkatsishvili's Last Day
Georgian businessman and opposition politician Badri Patarkatsishvili spent his last day consulting with advisors and business partners, The Times newspaper reports. He met with Lord Peter Goldsmith, former Attorney General of England to discuss his property dispute with Georgian authorities. Russian businessmen Nikolay Glushkov and Yuly Dubov were present at that meeting. The Russians received refugee status in Great Britain after being charged with financial crimes in Russia.
Several hours later, Patarkatsishvili's business partner Boris Berezovsky and Lord Timothy Bell, head of the Bell Pottinger Group PR agency, joined them. Both Berezovsky and Patarkatsishvili were clients of Bell. Patarkatsishvili stopped by Berezovsky's office at about 7:00 on his way to his home in Leatherhead.
Patarkatsishvili complained to his family of feeling ill after dinner and was going to lie down but died before making it to his bedroom. Berezovsky told journalists that Patarkatsishvili complained about pain in his heart on February 12. Others close to the Georgian say he had no health complaints. His personal doctor, Zaur Kirkitadze, stated that Patarkatsishvili had not heart problems. Preliminary results of Patarkatsishvili's autopsy on February 14 revealed that Patarkatsishvili died of natural causes. His associates say he will be buried in Georgia. Nothing is known of the funeral arrangements.
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