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Litvinenko story headed to bigscreen
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First there was Alexander Litvinenko, the former KGB spy who died under suspicious circumstances in 2006, and whose story is now getting the bigscreen treatment with Johnny Depp. Now comes the death of Georgian media tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili, whose demise last week stirred echoes of the Litvinenko case.
The 52-year-old, who helped lead anti-government protests in Tbilisi that led to a monthlong shutdown of his Imedi TV, had been accused of plotting to overthrow Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili's government. He denied that but fled to Britain after it emerged he had offered a top Georgian police official $100 million to support opposition forces following presidential elections in January.
Patarkatsishvili, who ran third in that election, claimed he had evidence of a plot by the Georgian government to assassinate him. He died Feb. 13 of a heart attack, according to initial post-mortem tests released by British police.
