Does the British judgment order take up double measures?.This question was introduced after the”Yamama deal’s scandal”, which the Saudian prince Bandar Ben Sultan
has been involved on it, while the political interests led to stopping the investigations .The same question is introduced today, especially after the death of the Georgian billionaire Patarkatsishvili in London, who was in severe quarrel with the current Georgian president M. Saakashvili.
“The death of Badri Patarkatsishvili, a Georgian billionaire businessman who collapsed at his mansion in Surrey, was referred to a serious crimes unit on February 13 amid fears that he may have been murdered.
While police stressed there was no evidence of foul play, the tycoon’s recent claims that he was the target of an assassination plot, and some of the details of his long and controversial business career, led police to decide upon a painstaking investigation”.
According to the statement of B. Patarkatsishvili’s doctor and relatives, numerous medical examinations he had gone through witnessed the absence of both any cardiac pathology and other serious diseases
“After making millions during the wild days of 1990s privatization in Russia, he began to dabble in the volatile, and sometimes violent, politics of his native country. Along the way he made friends and enemies, probably in equal measure”.
During last months the former presidential candidate announced more than once that he had information concerning preparation of an attempt upon his life by Georgian authorities. According to the information that he shared with the British “Sunday Times”, some representatives of Georgian special services arrived to London this January for realization of this plan. That’s why B. Patarkatsishvili strengthened security measures.
“He had spent the hours before his death in meetings with his advisers and business associates, including the Russian multimillionaire Boris Berezovsky, the former attorney general Lord Goldsmith and the former Tory PR guru Lord Bell. At the top of the agenda at some of those meetings was discussion about the distinct possibility that the authorities in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, would soon be requesting his extradition, accusing him of plotting a violent coup.
Shortly before Christmas, Patarkatsishvili had claimed that his enemies in Tbilisi were planning to murder him in Britain. He produced what he said was a tape recording of a conversation between an interior ministry official and a Chechen gangster in which a plot was discussed. “We’ll be able to deal with him – that’s not a problem,” said the man identified as a government official. “Even if he has a hundred people guarding him, well that’s not a problem. Our issue is such that we’ll destroy these guards.”
The day after the allegation first surfaced in a British newspaper, it became apparent that the Georgian government already had a secretly made recording of its own, this time a video that appears to show Patarkatsishvili offering an enormous bribe to a government official in return for orchestrating a coup.
The official, who now appears to have been sent to entrap the billionaire, can be heard asking whether they should murder a minister or persuade police to shoot into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators. “Would it be worth a hundred million to you?” the official asks, and Patarkatsishvili replies: “The freedom of the Georgian people is certainly worth a hundred million.”
In Leatherhead, neighbors said the businessman had recently increased the height of the fencing around his property and installed security cameras and new gates. Residents said he never went anywhere without his security team and would often be shadowed by a second vehicle containing bodyguards.
Although he continued to travel between his homes in London, Surrey and the Israeli Red Sea resort of Eilat, he announced last month that he would not be traveling to Georgia for some time.
On September 25, 2007 in the interview to Georgian “Imedi” TV channel former Georgian defense minister Irakli Okruashvili informed that Georgia’s President M. Saakashvili was implicated in corruption and organization of political murders of his ideological opponents. In particular, he addressed to I. Okruashvili asking him to look into the opportunity of eliminating B. Patarkatsishvili.
While there is no evidence that Patarkatsishvili was murdered, the police response indicates that they accept he may have been. If that evidence emerges, there will be no shortage of places where the police could look for suspects”.
Experts express doubts that the British authorities will open up the real cause of B. Patarkatsishvili’s death. They draw an analogy with american special services’ inquiry of mysterious death of the former georgian prime-minister M. Zhvania in Tbilisi. That inquiry showed that he had deceased as result of an accident, in spite of considerable number of evidences witnessing violent death. That’s why there are some reasons to doubt that the British police will make public real causes of B. Patarkatsishvili’s death. It is well-known that London and Washington are very interested in preserving the current regime in Tbilisi.
Selected from the guardian and other sources.
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