
Owner of Georgian pro-government TV channel Imedi loses $130 million appeal in UK court
The dispute revolved around efforts to recover the assets of billionaire opposition figure Badri Patarkatsishvili following his death in 2008.
The dispute revolved around efforts to recover the assets of billionaire opposition figure Badri Patarkatsishvili following his death in 2008.
On Friday, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order demanding that the parent agency operating RFE/RL and VOA reduce their operations.
The Georgian authorities did not inform British police of tapes they had recovered indicating a 2007 plot to assassinate businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili in Britain, OC Media has learnt. Georgian business tycoon Arkadi ‘Badri’ Patarkatsishvili, widely hailed as ‘the richest man in Georgia’, died in his home in Surrey, England, in February 2008. On Wednesday, the Georgian Prosecutor’s Office announced they had charged three former security service officials with plotting to kill Patarkat
The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office has charged four former security service officials for planning to murder businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili in England. Suggestions by investigators that the killing was ordered by former President Mikheil Saakashvili come as the government is embroiled in scandal over secret recordings implicating them in pressuring businesses, kidnapping, and torture. Georgian business tycoon Arkadi ‘Badri’ Patarkatsishvili, widely hailed as ‘the richest man in Georgia