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| Georgian opposition figure dies | Georgian opposition figure dies |
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| Georgian businessman and opposition politician Badri Patarkatsishvili has died of heart attack in London, aides and associates have announced. | |
| Mr Patarkatsishvili, 52, financed his own campaign in January's presidential election, which was won by incumbent Mikhail Saakashvili. | |
| He has since been charged with plotting a coup in connection with anti-government protests last year. | He has since been charged with plotting a coup in connection with anti-government protests last year. |
| He lived in self-imposed exile in the UK and Israel. | He lived in self-imposed exile in the UK and Israel. |
| His former business associate, exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, said he died at about 2300 GMT on Tuesday. | |
| Mr Berezovsky said he had seen him that day. He was not ill but complained about his heart, he said. | |
| 'Assassination plot' | |
| A supporter of the Rose Revolution which brought Mr Saakashvili to power in 2004, Mr Patarkatsishvili later turned against the government and began financing opposition parties. | |
| The authorities accused him of offering a $100m (£50m) bribe to a senior police official to help him overthrow the government and seize the Georgian interior minister. | |
| He denied the charge, saying that he himself was being targeted in an assassination plot. | |
| But the opposition tried to distance itself from his election campaign, and he came third with just 7% of the vote behind their official candidate Levan Gachechiladze. |