Workers unload the coffin of Georgian tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili at Tbilisi airport February 26, 2008.
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Israel’s President to Attend Funeral of Patarkatsishvili
Israeli President Shimon Peres will arrive in Tbilisi to attend the funeral of Badri Patarkatsishvili. Brothers of Hilary Clinton, Roman Abramovich and Andrei Lugovoi are also expected, Rustavi 2 reported.
The coffin with body of Badri Patarkatsishvili arrived at Tbilisi airport from London this morning. It was first delivered to the synagogue and then to Arkadia palace located in the historical district of Tbilisi. The tycoon bought it a few years ago.
One of Georgia’s wealthiest men and a presidential candidate at the recent election, Patarkatsishvili died in his estate near London late February 12. Heart attack is said to be the cause of his death.
The civil dirge will be held today and tomorrow. Patarkatsishvili will be buried in the yard of his palace February 28.
Badri Patarkatsishvili had been on the wanted list of Georgia’s prosecutors. Tbilisi City Court had sentenced him to two months of preliminary confinement on count of plotting the overthrow of power in Georgia, staging an attack on a policymaker and preparing an act of terror. According to the audiotape that was broadcast by all TV channels of Georgia, the oligarch had offered $100 million to Irakli Kodua, chief of a special department at Georgia’s Interior Ministry, for the so-called neutralization of Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili.
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