UK police looking for murder clues
The sudden death of Jewish Georgian oligarch Badri Patarkatsishvili on the night of 12 February at his English mansion in Surrey is being treated as suspicious by local police.
Patarkatsishvili, who was worth an estimated US$6 billion, was living in self imposed exile after a failed “color coup” attempt against President Mikheil Saakashvili, himself installed with the support of Patarkatsishvili after the phony “Rose Revolution,” a “http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2616" that ousted the elected government in favor of a regime oriented towards the West and against the Kremlin.
The Soviet Union’s assets were stripped bare by oligrachs, mainly Jewish, under the Boris http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=567 has worked hard to weed the oligarchs and their corruption out of his nation. Many oligarchs are now either in jail or hiding in exile in Western Europe and Israel.
At age 52, Patarkatsishvili, like many Georgians a heavy smoker, had reached the life expectancy of his demographic, but forces opposed to Putin are sure to attempt to claim that Patarkatsishvili, surrounded by over one hundred bodyguards, was assassinated on Kremlin orders. Certainly the Kremlin had a reason to target Patarkatsishvili, who was close to exiled fellow Jewish oligarch http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=333. Litvinenko was a former colonel in the FSB (the KGB’s successor) who had gone rogue and become another ally of Berezovsky, making wild claims about Putin and Russia in general. Litvinenko died in London after being exposed to radioactive material. The Kremlin claims that he may have been involved in smuggling the material to Islamists in the West; Litvinenko had recently become a Muslim.
Surrey’s Sherlock Holmeses might look closer to home if a culprit is indeed involved in Patarkatsishvili’s demise. Shortly before his death, Patarkatsishvili released a tape he claimed proved that his former allies in Georgia planned to have him knocked off by Chechens.