Georgian Opposition Leader To Be Buried At Home
By Matthew Williams
14:57, February 15th 2008
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Georgian Opposition Leader To Be Buried At Home

The family of Badri Patarkatsishvili said Friday that his body will be buried at home, once the investigation will be over and the report with the cause of death will be made.

Badri Patarkatsishvili, the Georgian opposition leader and wealthy businessman, died Tuesday night of heart failure at his home outside Leatherhead, a suburban commuter town southwest of London. He was 52. The initial post mortem tests released by British police on Thursday said that Patarkatsishvili died on natural causes.

Even though he frequently mentioned that there were plots to assassinate him, the British investigators said that there isn’t any reason to believe he was killed. The toxicology tests that investigators will run to determine the cause of his death will take almost ten weeks.

Patarkatsishvili’s body can’t be released until the investigations and tests are over.

His family made their first statement since his death saying:  "We have lost our son, father, husband, and our most beloved person. We completely trust the professionalism of the British police and criminal experts. As soon as the final forensic report is released on the causes of his death, we will transfer Badri's body to Georgia and commit it to his native land," Reuters reports.

He was accused of plotting to oust the ex-Soviet republic's government.

Patarkatsishvili was considered the force behind the November anti-government protests in Georgia.

He was being investigated at home for plotting to oust the government. These accusations were denied by Patarkatsishvili, but the fact that he offered sums of money to police to side with protesters he admitted. The protests were stopped by police in a brutal way.

He ran against Mikhail Saakashvili in the elections in January, gathering only 7 percent of the vote.

His doctor told his family that it didn’t show any sign of heart disease at the latest medical tests.

He was the richest man in Georgia and built his success after he partnered with Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky in the 1990s, a Kremlin critic who also lives in London in exile.



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