Badri Patarkatsishvili biography. Businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili: biography, activities and interesting facts

10.01.2024

Born on October 31, 1955 in Tbilisi into a religious Jewish family. In his youth he made a career in the Georgian Komsomol.

Graduated from the Georgian Polytechnic Institute. He worked at the Tbilisi worsted and cloth factory "Soviet Georgia", becoming deputy director.

In the late 1980s, he became the head of the Zhiguli car service station. Since 1990 - Director of the Caucasian regional representative office of LogoVAZ JSC.

Since 1993 he lived in Lyubertsy, Moscow region; since 1994 - in Moscow.

In the 1990s he was a close business partner of B. A. Berezovsky; had a business in St. Petersburg, where he became close to Putin.

From May 1992 to May 1994 - Deputy General Director of LogoVAZ JSC, from June 1994 - First Deputy General Director of LogoVAZ JSC.

Since 1994 - Deputy General Director of JSC LogoVAZ; also headed the Lada-Engineering company, part of Logovaz; was vice-president of the Russian Automobile Dealers Association (1994-1995); served as Deputy General Director of the Public Russian Television (ORT) TV channel for commerce; was the first deputy chairman of the board of directors of OJSC Public Russian Television.

In 2001, he was accused by the Russian authorities of organizing the escape from custody of Nikolai Glushkov, accused in the “Aeroflot case,” and was forced to move again to Tbilisi. He was also accused by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation of fraud on an especially large scale in the case of theft of cars from AVTOVAZ OJSC.

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He owned the Imedi media company, which was in opposition to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. A supporter of Patarkatsishvili was former Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili, who accused Saakashvili of preparing the murder of Patarkatsishvili.

On January 3, 2008, it was announced that Patarkatsishvili, allegedly after consulting with Patriarch-Catholicos Ilya II, decided to take part in the presidential elections in Georgia on January 5, 2008 - earlier his representatives stated that Patarkatsishvili would withdraw his candidacy the day before the elections. During the election campaign, the candidate promised direct financial assistance “from his own funds” to the citizens of Georgia in the event of his victory.

In recent months, Patarkatsishvili has been living in the UK.

Badri Patarkatsishvili died in London at about 23:00 local time on February 12, 2008 from a heart attack, although he had never previously complained of heart disease.

Versions of death and criminal investigation

The British police transferred the case of Patarkatsishvili's death to the department of particularly important criminal investigations.

It is noteworthy that a week before his death, a scandal erupted in Georgia related to the publication by the Aliya newspaper of a printout of a conversation between Badri Patarkatsishvili and the head of the special department of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irakli Kodua. Part of the entry concerning Patarkatsishvili’s connections with Putin was published two days before Patarkatsishvili’s death in two versions of the Russian translation in the Kommersant-Vlast magazine. In particular, according to the editorial translation of the text of the printout, Patarkatsishvili said: “He [Putin] was in St. Petersburg, worked as Sobchak’s deputy, protected my St. Petersburg businesses.<...>When Yakovlev won the elections against Sobchak there, Yakovlev invited him to stay, but Putin acted like a man and did not stay - he left the mayor’s office along with Sobchak. He called me twice a day and begged: Badri, transfer me to Moscow - I don’t want to stay here. I went to Borodin - Pal-Palych, who was then the head of Yeltsin’s household. He's a good guy - my friend. I came to him and told him about Putin, that he was a smart guy and could transfer him to the financial control department? “Do you want me to transfer him as my deputy?” he said. I called Putin, he arrived the same day, then became director of the FSB, then prime minister.”

Russian businessman and politician B. Berezovsky and long-time business partner of Badri said on this occasion:

Badri died at around 11pm London time. The death was completely unexpected. Now the London police are doing this.

Businessman's assistant Maya Motserelia:

We don't know the details. There is no specific information yet. ... died suddenly, there was no time to help.

State Duma Deputy Alexander Khinshtein:

For the last year and a half, B. Patarkatsishvili and B. Berezovsky have been in a conflicting relationship. Patarkatsishvili bought out shares of their joint business; the initiator of the split was Badri himself, who began to be burdened by the unhealthy political ambitions of his partner. The whole story with Georgia was not connected with Berezovsky; moreover, Boris Abramovich accused Patarkatsishvili of acting in the interests of Russia and entering into contacts with Russian intelligence services. Thus, I am sure that Berezovsky is the most interested person in the death of Patarkatsishvili.

According to the leader of the opposition National Independence Party of Georgia, Irakli Tsereteli, neither M. Saakashvili nor the Georgian authorities are involved in the death of Patarkatsishvili. In his opinion, Boris Berezovsky was interested in the death of the businessman.

After Patarkatsishvili’s death, information was received that the criminal cases initiated against him were closed. However, later, as RIA Novosti reports, the Georgian prosecutor's office said that the cases would be closed after it received official documents confirming his death.

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, which accused the entrepreneur of fraud in the early 2000s, also stated that the criminal prosecution of Patarkatsishvili will not be terminated until documents about his death are received.

Badri Patarkatsishvili in literature and cinema

Patarkatsishvili served as the prototype for one of the main characters - Illarion (Larry) Georgievich Teishvili - in two novels by Yuli Dubov “The Big Ration” and “Lesser Evil”, as well as the film adaptation of “The Big Ration” - the film “Oligarch” by Pavel Lungin. The role of Larry in “Oligarch” was played by an American actor of Georgian origin, Levani Uchaneishvili, who was approved for this role with the approval of Patarkatsishvili himself.

Badri (Arkady) Shalvovich Patarkatsishvili was born on October 31, 1955 in Tbilisi into a religious Jewish family. He graduated from the Georgian Polytechnic Institute. He worked at the Tbilisi worsted and cloth factory “Soviet Georgia”. He rose to the post of deputy director.

In 1990, he became director of the Caucasian regional representative office of LogoVAZ JSC. Since 1993 he lived in Lyubertsy, Moscow region, since 1994 - in Moscow.

From May 1992 to May 1994 - Deputy General Director of LogoVAZ JSC, from June 1994 - First Deputy General Director of LogoVAZ JSC.

He also headed the Lada-Engineering company, part of Logovaz; was vice-president of the Russian Automobile Dealers Association (1994-1995); served as Deputy General Director of the Public Russian Television (ORT) TV channel for commerce; was the first deputy chairman of the board of directors of OJSC Public Russian Television.

Patarkatsishvili became Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSCB United Bank (Moscow) in October 1996.

Since June 2000, he served as executive director of ORT; in June 1999 he joined the board of directors of MNVK TV-6 Moscow; in March 2001 he was appointed general director of TV-6; On May 14, 2001, at a meeting of shareholders of the TV channel, he was elected chairman of the board of directors.

According to some media reports, Patarkatsishvili arrived in the Moscow region from Tbilisi at the beginning of 1993 with the support of his friend Otari Kvantriashvili, who helped him register in Lyubertsy, and then, in 1994 in Moscow (Kvantriashvili, a crime boss, was killed). There was also information in the press that he was an adviser to Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze.

Patarkatsishvili was the head of the competition commission for the sale of a 51% stake in Sibneft. The commission refused to accept applications from representatives of ONEXIMbank and Alfa Group.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office sent an international investigative order to the Georgian Prosecutor General's Office with a request for the arrest and extradition of former ORT financial director Badri Patarkatsishvili in March 2002.

Shortly before this, Badri Patarkatsishvili returned to Georgia. Arriving in Tbilisi, Patarkatsishvili stated that he was a citizen of Georgia, not Russia, and therefore could not be extradited by Russian law enforcement agencies under any circumstances - this would be a violation of the country's constitution.

Patarkatsishvili began building the media-art-sports holding “Art-Imedi” (“Imedi” means “hope”). He bought the formerly famous Tbilisi football club “Dynamo”, the basketball club “Dynamo” (Tbilisi), financed wrestlers, swimmers, chess players, and transferred a significant amount for the construction of the cathedral in Tbilisi.

On December 17, 2004, he was elected president of the National Olympic Committee of Georgia. On October 6, 2007, the Executive Committee of the National Olympic Committee of Georgia suspended Badri Patarkatsishvili's presidential powers.

In 2004, he was elected head of an international consortium for the construction of a sea oil terminal in Kulevi (Khobi region of Georgia), with a capacity of 12.5 million tons. Since 2005, he has been one of the shareholders of the Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper.

At the beginning of 2006, he acquired the business assets of Boris Berezovsky, including the Kommersant Publishing House.

Patarkatsishvili, who was a presidential candidate in Georgia in early elections on January 5, 2008, was put on the wanted list by the country's Prosecutor General's Office on charges of organizing a state conspiracy and attempting to eliminate a person holding a political position.

On February 12, media reports appeared about the death of Badri Patarkatsishvili in London, presumably from a heart attack. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.

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Bigamist, or Twice Outcast Badri (Arkady) Patarkatsishvili, LogoVAZ, ORT, Sibneft, Kommersant Publishing House, Imedi and much more

Bigamist, or Twice Outcast

Badri (Arkady) Patarkatsishvili,

LogoVAZ, ORT, Sibneft, Kommersant Publishing House, Imedi and much more

On June 20, 2001, the public relations center of the Prosecutor General's Office turned to businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili, in fact, with a real ultimatum. He was asked to appear at the Prosecutor General's Office within a week (or at least contact the investigator).

Living according to concepts - for me it means living according to conscience. And laws were created for the same thing.

Badri Patarkatsishvili

While trying to escape

“In case of failure to appear before him, the full measures provided for by the criminal procedural legislation will be taken,” law enforcement officers warned. In fact, this meant that in a week Badri Patarkatsishvili could well be put on the wanted list and then arrested (which, however, was not completely excluded in the event of his voluntary appearance for interrogation).

The entrepreneur was a witness in the case of the attempted escape from custody of former Aeroflot top manager Nikolai Glushkov. According to law enforcement officials, on April 11, 2001, at about 10 pm, the accused Nikolai Glushkov left the building of the capital’s hematology center, where he was being treated under round-the-clock guard. At the exit from the center, he was detained by FSB officers who had operational information about the impending escape. According to their version, Nikolai Glushkov’s friends, Badri Patarkatsishvili and Boris Berezovsky, were preparing the escape.

The next day, through the mouth of his lawyer Semyon Aria, Badri Patarkatsishvili responded to the prosecutor’s office. Refuting the claims of law enforcement officers, the lawyer argued that his client had already been summoned for questioning once, back in April. At the same time, an explanation was sent to the Prosecutor General’s Office that he was on a long business trip and would return to Russia only in September. Badri Patarkatsishvili did not receive any other subpoenas.

Pointing out that the public announcement of the connection of a well-known businessman with criminal activity is at the very least incorrect, the lawyer added on his own behalf that “the investigation has no procedurally admissible evidence of Mr. Patarkatsishvili’s involvement in the escape case.”

However, the investigators needed the week-long period announced by the Prosecutor General’s Office not only to wait for the voluntary appearance of the suspect and thereby avoid possible difficulties in finding him. During this time, an examination was carried out of the wiretapping of Badri Patarkatsishvili’s telephone conversation with the head of the security service of the ORT television company, Andrei Lugovoy. The interlocutors allegedly discussed options for Nikolai Glushkov’s escape. Experts confirmed that it was Badri Patarkatsishvili who spoke. This was enough to charge him with organizing the escape. The second interlocutor, Andrei Lugovoi, was arrested on June 28 on the same charges. He had to spend more than a year in prison.

Five years later, Andrei Lugovoi, now a State Duma deputy from the LDPR, will be involved in the notorious case of a cup of tea with isotopes in the bar of the Millennium Hotel. However, that story has nothing to do with Patarkatsishvili. Badri Shalvovich himself, who, according to his press service, was on a long business trip abroad, made a predictable decision - not to return to Russia. The Prosecutor General's Office immediately put him on the international wanted list, bypassing the federal one.

Patarkatsishvili accepted Georgian citizenship, and the request for his extradition sent by the Prosecutor General's Office in November 2001 to Georgia was not satisfied - Georgian laws (like Russian ones) prohibited the extradition of their citizens to law enforcement agencies of foreign states.

Berezovsky's top manager

Before becoming the right hand of Boris Berezovsky and discerning - in his own words - a potential prime minister of Russia in an ordinary employee of the St. Petersburg mayor's office, Vladimir Putin, Arkady Patarkatsishvili made a career in the Georgian Komsomol and in industry. In the late 1980s, he became the head of the Zhiguli car service station, and in 1990, the director of the Caucasian regional representative office of Logovaz JSC. That same year he met Boris Berezovsky.

The first half of the 1990s became a period of professional capitalist growth for Badri Patarkatsishvili within (and beyond) the LogoVAZ empire. If Berezovsky was, rather, a strategist responsible for the “political cover” of business, then Patarkatsishvili, having moved to Moscow, became an increasingly acumen top manager.

From May 1992 to May 1994, Badri was Deputy General Director of LogoVAZ JSC, and from June 1994, First Deputy General Director. Since 1994, he headed the Lada-Engineering company, part of LogoVAZ; was vice-president of the Russian Automobile Dealers Association (1994–1995).

In December 1995, CJSC Oil Finance Company, of which Badri was a co-owner and chairman of the board of directors, bought a 51% stake in Sibneft. In 1996-1999, Patarkatsishvili headed the board of directors of the United Bank. It is also believed that he, together with Boris Berezovsky, owned 25% of Russian Aluminum.

Since the mid-1990s, Patarkatsishvili has been involved in his partner’s media business. He served as Deputy General Director of the Public Russian Television (ORT) TV channel for commerce; was the first deputy chairman of the board of directors of OJSC Public Russian Television. Within six months, having established control over the television channel, he became its director of commerce and finance, and at the peak of his career, chairman of the board of directors of Channel One. At the same time, Mr. Patarkatsishvili first encountered Russian law enforcement agencies. In March 1995, he was interrogated in the case of the murder of the general director of the ORT television company Vladislav Listyev. There were versions in the media that the murder was organized by order of Boris Berezovsky, who wanted to control the channel’s advertising revenues. He was not charged then.

In 1999, the TV-6 channel came under the control of Boris Berezovsky. In March 2001, Badri Patarkatsishvili, being the executive director of ORT, also became the general director of TV-6. Other Russian media assets of the two businessmen were the Kommersant publishing house, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Novye Izvestia and TV-Park magazine.

But politics, which Patarkatsishvili had long avoided in Russia, found him on its own. On December 7, 2000, as part of the Aeroflot case, Nikolai Glushkov was arrested and placed in the Lefortovo detention center. According to Patarkatsishvili himself, this case was initially directed against Berezovsky. Depending on Berezovsky’s relationship with the authorities, it was either closed or resumed again. When Berezovsky helped Putin in the elections, the Prosecutor General's Office closed the case. When I went against Putin, I resumed it.

The partners realized this quickly. As well as the fact that one of the main elements of the policy of “equidistance of oligarchs” will be the seizure of control over the media, and over TV in the first place. They decided that their media assets represented a bargaining chip with the authorities, and the quality of these assets provided a strong negotiating position. The Kremlin’s demands, as Patarkatsishvili claimed, boiled down to the partners “selling the media empire, and Berezovsky stopping political activities.”

Badri Patarkatsishvili: “I appointed myself general director of TV-6”

– <…>I continued negotiations with government officials regarding the release of Glushkov from custody and received preliminary consent on the condition that Glushkov immediately leave the country.

– With whom exactly from the authorities?

– With Sergei Ivanov, he was then still the Secretary of the Security Council<…>and acted on Putin's instructions. I was asked to engage in any business, but it was contraindicated to engage in politics and mass media<…>I appointed myself general director of TV-6, based only on the fact that if we still have to negotiate with the authorities, then it is better to do it with me.

Vagit Alekperov was “appointed” as the buyer of TV-6 (again according to Badri Patarkatsishvili). But it was not possible to come to an agreement with him, and the confrontation between the entrepreneur and the authorities moved into the “open phase.” Glushkov was caught trying to escape, and Patarkatsishvili moved to Georgia, although he continued his efforts to get his friend out of prison.

As a result, on October 30, 2002, the Basmanny Court of Moscow, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, issued a warrant for the arrest of Badri Patarkatsishvili in the case of the theft of about 2,000 cars during LogoVAZ’s settlement with AvtoVAZ and the administration of the Samara region in 1994–1995. The entrepreneur was again put on the international wanted list.

The richest Georgian

By that time, Badri Patarkatsishvili enjoyed enormous authority in his homeland. His active involvement in Georgian business aroused genuine enthusiasm among both the Georgian authorities and the business community. Badri’s money and authority allowed him, in addition to everything else, to act as a kind of mediator, an arbiter in many issues where the interests of authorities and business intersected.

In Georgia, he was mainly involved in the media business: he created the Imedi television company, bought shares in the Mze and First Stereo television companies. Together with Boris Berezovsky, he acquired shares in the Bary Discovered Partners fund, which owns a number of food industry enterprises in Georgia and Serbia. He owned 49.9% of the Georgian mobile operator Magticom, shares in the football and basketball clubs Dynamo (Tbilisi), and through the British company Media Sports Investement controlled 51% of the shares of the Brazilian football club Corinthians.

In Georgia, Patarkatsishvili became increasingly active in social and political activities in the early and mid-2000s. He headed the Federation of Georgian Businessmen, bought the capital's circus, financed wrestlers, swimmers and chess players, invested heavily in the reconstruction of the ancient Georgian capital Mtskheta and in the construction of the new Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi. In 2002, Patarkatsishvili provided the Tbilisi mayor's office with an interest-free loan of $1 million to pay for Russian natural gas when Moscow threatened to cut off gas supplies to Georgia due to rising debt.

On December 17, 2004, Patarkatsishvili was elected president of the National Olympic Committee of Georgia. In 2005, he became president of the newly created World Jewish Television. Patarkatsishvili's candidacy for this post was put forward at a meeting of the World Congress of Jews held in Jerusalem.

Even another conflict with law enforcement did not particularly affect his position. In February 2005, the Brazilian prosecutor's office began an investigation into possible financial irregularities in the Corinthians football club, of which Badri Patarkatsishvili was an investor along with Boris Berezovsky. According to investigators, the club was used for money laundering.

But Badri’s reputation in Georgia was impeccable, and his positions seemed unshakable.

By 2007, he owned 70% of the shares of the Georgian media holding Imedi (then the holding was valued at $300–400 million), 78% of the shares of the Rustavi-2 TV channel, 51% of the shares of the Mze and First Stereo television companies. In total, he controlled 80% of the Georgian television market.

The assets of the Bary Discovered Partners fund were estimated at $1 billion. The fund owned the Georgian Glass and Mineral Waters corporation (producer of the Georgian mineral water “Borjomi” and the Ukrainian “Mirgorodskaya” and “Morshinskaya”) with a turnover of more than $120 million, the Bamby confectionery factory and the Imlek dairy plant in Georgia. In 2007, the Georgian Times estimated Badri Patarkatsishvili's fortune at $12 billion.

He still had shares in Russian assets and authority in Russian business and government circles. It was through Badri that in 2006 Boris Berezovsky sold the Kommersant publishing house to the Kremlin-loyal entrepreneur Alisher Usmanov.

Badri Patarkatsishvili: “I was convinced that the power I dreamed of had come”

I’m not the person who suddenly stood up and started fighting against Misha. When he came to power, I took and gave 51% to Mze. I would say: give me Imedi, I would give Imedi too. I would have given it, because then I was convinced that the power I had dreamed of had come, which would do everything for the country to develop normally and move normally. I believed Zura, absolutely, and we spent nights thinking about how to build an economy<…>And the economic program that was actually made by me was to reduce taxes to 32%, VAT, and so on. He begged Misha to issue an amnesty for business and said that business should breathe freely. Then the country will develop. I paid three million for the program, it was prepared in Canada. Then he spat on everything, because he realized that it made no sense.

Oppositionist

But in March 2006, Patarkatsishvili criticized the Georgian authorities, accusing them of extorting “rents from business,” and went into opposition to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. In response, Badri was called a secret sponsor of the opposition, and a new round of confrontation between the entrepreneur and the authorities - this time Georgian - turned out to be inevitable.

It developed generally according to the same scenario as in Russia. Patarkatsishvili was demanded to transfer his media holding to the state. He refused - already from London - and in 2006 sold the shares of the Imedi TV channel to the Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, later ceding the entire company to him.

In March 2007, Patarkatsishvili from London announced the cessation of political and economic activities in Georgia. For six months the conflict subsided, but in the fall of 2007 the situation in Georgia began to heat up. On November 7, the entrepreneur took part in a mass opposition protest in front of the Georgian parliament, and after the brutal dispersal of this rally, he called on the opposition to unite to fight Saakashvili and promised to spend all his money “to liberate Georgia from the fascist regime.” The response was not long in coming. On November 9, 2007, the Georgian Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case against Badri Patarkatsishvili, who was in London, on charges of conspiracy to overthrow the government.

A week later, the Tbilisi City Court, at the request of the prosecutor’s office, suspended the broadcasting license of the Imedi television company created by Patarkatsishvili and seized its property.

In December 2007, Patarkatsishvili became one of the opposition presidential candidates, but in the January 5 elections he took only third place. The day before, incriminating evidence began to appear in the pro-government Georgian media. Thus, the prosecutor's office released an audio recording of a meeting between Patarkatsishvili and the head of the operational department of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Erekle (Iraklia) Kodua, which allegedly took place in London on December 23. According to the recording, during this meeting Patarkatsishvili instructed Kodua to arrest the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vano Merabishvili, promising him $100 million “for active participation in the coup.” Patarkatsishvili called the film a provocation, although he did not deny the fact of the meeting with Kodua. After that, he was charged again with “conspiracy to overthrow state power in Georgia, preparing an attack on a political official and preparing a terrorist attack.”

At the beginning of February 2008, a real scandal broke out in Georgia. Immediately after the prosecutor’s office released the recording of Patarkatsishvili’s conversation with Kodua, Badri’s supporters said that the recording was edited incorrectly, parts were taken out of context, and that the full recording of the conversation would be published, from which it would become clear that Patarkatsishvili was not preparing any coup.

On February 2, Colonel Kodua was awarded the rank of major general for special services. And already on February 5, the Aliya newspaper, published in Georgian, reported that a disk with a note was found in its mailbox: “Here is a complete recording of the conversation between Patarkatsishvili and Kodua. Will you publish it? "Aliya" published.

In Georgia, the transcript became the number one topic. Not least because the full version deals not only with internal Georgian problems, but also with Russia, or more precisely, with its presidents, Yeltsin and Putin. However, Badri spoke little about them. In particular, it was then that he outlined his role in the political career of Vladimir Putin.

Badri Patarkatsishvili: “Fuck the post of minister, I need money”

– I was offered the post of Minister of Economy in Russia. Because fifty of the best economists worked for me. I created an entire institute that worked on how to circumvent the laws. What laws did the state pass then? When it was accepted, I spoke and said which way should be taken in order to circumvent the law, without breaking anything and achieving the goal. Many of the then new schemes in Russia were invented by me. And when Putin came, he offered me the post of Minister of Economy. I answered him: are you crazy? To hell with the post of minister, I need money...

Mostly the conversation was about Georgia. In particular, that an assassination attempt is being prepared on Patarkatsishvili himself. About where exactly Badri differs from Saakashvili, about Imedi, about democracy, economics, politics in Georgia.

Death and inheritance

A week after the publication in Aliya and the day after the articles in the Russian media, Badri Patarkatsishvili died at his home in the town of Leatherhead near London. Late in the evening of February 12, he told his family that he was not feeling well, went to his bedroom, fell and died. English police, citing preliminary autopsy results, reported death from natural causes - a sudden heart attack. But the death of the twice-disgraced oligarch looked so suspicious that it required an additional thorough investigation, the result of which - death as a result of coronary heart disease - did not convince everyone, however.

Before the relatives had time to bury the deceased (Arkady Patarkatsishvili’s funeral took place at his Tbilisi residence on February 28, 2008 with a large crowd of people and turned into an impromptu rally of the Georgian opposition), a real war broke out over his inheritance.

Three days after the death of Badri Patarkatsishvili, the deceased’s maternal cousin Joseph Kay (Georgian native Joseph Kakalashvili, who emigrated to the United States) presented his widow Inna Gudavadze with copies of the will and power of attorney for the right to dispose of all assets. The widow accused him of fraud, forging a will, and sent letters warning about an attempt to seize assets to the authorities of the United States, Great Britain, Georgia and Belarus. On February 20, the Georgian Mze channel reported that Mr. Kay was conducting negotiations in Tbilisi as the administrator of the property of the deceased. Later it turned out that at this time he reorganized the Imedi TV channel.

On March 12, Joseph Kay's lawyer Emmanuel Zeltser was arrested in Belarus. He was accused of forging documents and attempting to fraudulently seize the Belarusian assets of Badri Patarkatsishvili. On March 19, Inna Gudavadze reported that “impostors” declared themselves the owners of Imedi and were “trying to sell it to the government.” On March 21, Joseph Kay said that he “legally” bought the shares of the TV channel from Mr. Patarkatsishvili’s trusted representative, businessman Giorgi Dzhaoshvili.

On March 22, Boris Berezovsky told the Rustavi-2 TV channel that he could also lay claim to shares in Georgian assets, the management of which he had previously transferred to Badri Patarkatsishvili.

On April 4, Inna Gudavadze and her daughters filed a lawsuit against Joseph Kay and Emmanuel Zeltser in the federal court for the Southern District of New York. They said the defendants were trying to seize an inheritance worth about $1 billion and asked to identify the true heir. During the proceedings, the parties agreed that Mr. Kay would not lay claim to the disputed assets until the end of the process.

On April 7, Joseph Kay and Emmanuel Zeltser's brother Mark filed a complaint with a New York court that Boris Berezovsky and the Gudavadze family lured Emmanuel Zeltser to Minsk, where he was arrested. On April 10, the imprisoned lawyer was transferred from the pre-trial detention center to a psychiatric clinic.

The summer of 2008 was spent in judicial battles. The Tbilisi City Court recognized Joseph Kay as the executor of Badri Patarkatsishvili's will. The first wife of the late entrepreneur, Inna Gudavadze, in the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow, achieved recognition of his marriage with Muscovite Olga Safonova in 1997 as invalid, thus reducing the number of applicants for the inheritance.

In 2009, Boris Berezovsky, claiming half of the deceased’s assets, also turned to a London court on the issue of dividing Patarkatsishvili’s inheritance. The Tbilisi court put another ellipsis in the inheritance case in February 2009, not confirming Mr. Kay’s right to dispose of Mr. Patarkatsishvili’s inheritance, but recognizing him as the executor of the will, which gave him the opportunity to manage the same Imedi. Patarkatsishvili's family challenged this decision, but the appeal court upheld it.

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Badri Patarkatsishvili (Arkady Shalvovich Patarkatsishvili) - Georgian entrepreneur, was one of the candidates for the post of president of the country, born on October 31, 1955 in Tbilisi. The businessman represented the opposition party “Our Georgia” and was friends with oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Badri was also rich; at the beginning of 2008, his fortune reached $12 billion. The main areas of activity of the businessman are mass media, sports and cars.

On February 12, 2008, he died at his villa in Surrey. The entrepreneur is survived by his wife, Inna Gudavadze, and two daughters, Iya and Liana. He also had an illegitimate son, David, who appeared as a result of the businessman’s relationship with Olga Safonova.

Carier start

Arkady was born into the religious Jewish family of Shalva and Natela Patarkatsishvili. He received his higher education in Tbilisi. The young man graduated from the Polytechnic Institute, then went to work at the “Soviet Georgia” worsted and cloth mill. Initially, he was a deputy secretary, but eventually rose to the rank of deputy director. The businessman was also a member of the CPSU. After the collapse of the USSR, it was Badri who began transforming the plant into JSC Maudi. Since 1993 he lived in Lyubertsy.

From 1990 to 1995, the entrepreneur received the position of director of the Caucasian representative office of LogoVAZ and became one of the six founders. Thanks to this, in 1994 he moved to Moscow, becoming deputy general director of the company. Until 2001, Patarkatsishvili built his career in Russia. His partner was Boris Berezovsky.

Achievements in various fields

At the end of the 80s, Patarkatsishvili took the post of head of the Zhiguli car service station. In October 1996, he was offered to head the Board of Directors of JSCB United Bank. In 1994, Arkady became vice-president of the Russian Automobile Dealers Association, founded by the same Logovaz. The president of this company was Berezovsky.

In March 1995, the entrepreneur was arrested in connection with the murder of TV presenter Vladislav Listyev. The deceased was the general director of ORT, where Patarkatsishvili worked at that time. From 1995 to 2001, Badri was the head of the ORT and TV-6 television channels. The businessman was responsible for the work of the financial and commercial department. He also took over as president of World Jewish Television. In 1997, Arkady was elected chairman of the competition committee of Sibneft JSC. He participated in discussions about the sale of a controlling stake.

Suspicious death

In 2001, Russian authorities accused Patarkatsishvili of complicity and organizing the escape of Nikolai Glushkov. Because of this, the entrepreneur had to return to Tbilisi. He stated that he had never been a Russian citizen, therefore the authorities do not have the right to extradite him to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. At the same time, the businessman was accused of fraud on an especially large scale.

In 2002, Patarkatsishvili acquired the Imedi media holding, basketball and football clubs in Tbilisi. He was also the owner of the capital's circus and the Kommersant publishing house. The entrepreneur sponsored the reconstruction of the Georgian city of Mtskheta and the construction of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi. When the Russian government threatened to cut off gas to Georgia, Badri provided the Tbilisi mayor's office with an interest-free loan to pay the debt.

From 2003 to 2007, Badri was the head of the Federation of Businessmen in Georgia, he was named the most popular business person of the year. At the same time, he headed the National Olympic Committee. In 2007, the Georgian Times published a list of the richest people from Georgia. Patarkatsishvili came in first place. His fortune exceeded six of the country's annual budgets.

In 2008, the businessman decided to enter politics. He ran for the presidency of Georgia from the opposition party. Patarkatsishvili promised to provide financial assistance to all citizens of the country. He planned to allocate his own funds for this, but lost the election. Badri spent the last months of his life in Great Britain.

The entrepreneur died in February 2008. According to unofficial data, the cause of his death was a heart attack. But Patarkatsishvili’s relatives claim that he never had any health problems. His best friend Boris Berezovsky also does not believe in such a cause of death, because he saw the businessman just a few hours before. Journalists believe that Badri could have been killed. The circumstances of his death have not yet been fully clarified. British police were involved in the investigation.

Georgia

Badri Patarkatsishvili(cargo. ბადრი პატარკაციშვილი ; full name - Arkady Shalvovich Patarkatsishvili; October 31, Tbilisi - February 12, Surrey) is a Georgian businessman whose main areas of business interests were the auto industry, the press and sports.

He nominated himself in the presidential elections in Georgia in January 2008 and took third place with 7.1% of the vote.

He was mainly mentioned in the press under the nickname “Badri”, although according to his passport he bore the name Arkady.

Biography

He owned the media company Imedi, which was in opposition to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. A supporter of Patarkatsishvili was former Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili, who accused Saakashvili of preparing the murder of Patarkatsishvili.

Badri Patarkatsishvili died on February 12, 2008 at his home in London at about 23:00 local time from a heart attack, although he had never previously complained of heart disease. His father Shalva Patarkatsishvili also died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 48. An autopsy performed revealed pathology consistent with sudden death without prior symptoms.

Versions of death and criminal investigation

The British police transferred the case of Patarkatsishvili's death to the department of particularly important criminal investigations.

He [Putin] was in St. Petersburg, worked as Sobchak’s deputy, and protected my St. Petersburg businesses.<…>When Yakovlev won the elections against Sobchak there, Yakovlev invited him to stay, but Putin acted like a man and did not stay - he left the mayor’s office along with Sobchak. He called me twice a day and begged: Badri, transfer me to Moscow - I don’t want to stay here. I went to Borodin-Pal-Palych, who was then the head of Yeltsin’s household. He's a good guy - my friend. I came to him and told him about Putin, that he was a smart guy and could transfer him to the financial control department? “Do you want me to transfer him as my deputy?” - he said. I called Putin, he arrived the same day, then became director of the FSB, then prime minister.

For the last year and a half, B. Patarkatsishvili and B. Berezovsky have been in a conflicting relationship. Patarkatsishvili bought out shares of their joint business; the initiator of the split was Badri himself, who began to be burdened by the unhealthy political ambitions of his partner. The whole story with Georgia was not connected with Berezovsky; moreover, Boris Abramovich accused Patarkatsishvili of acting in the interests of Russia and entering into contacts with Russian intelligence services. Thus, I am sure that Berezovsky is the most interested person in the death of Patarkatsishvili.

After Patarkatsishvili’s death, the criminal cases brought against him in Russia and Georgia were discontinued.

Badri Patarkatsishvili in literature and cinema

Patarkatsishvili served as the prototype for one of the main characters - Illarion (Larry) Georgievich Teishvili - of two novels by Yuli Dubov “The Big Ration” and “Lesser Evil”, as well as the film adaptation of “The Big Ration” - the film “Oligarch” by Pavel Lungin. The role of Larry in “Oligarch” was played by an American actor of Georgian origin Levani Uchaneishvili, who was approved for this role with the approval of Patarkatsishvili himself. In 2015, Badri Patarkatsishvili became one of the main characters in the 8-episode television feature film “Unaccountable.” This role was played by actor Levan Mskhiladze.

Personal life

In 1979 he married Inna Gudavadze, from whom he never divorced. This marriage has two daughters - Iya and Liana. From a marriage concluded in secret from his wife in 1997 with Olga Safonova, which after the death of Badri in 2008 was declared invalid by a court decision - son David (b. 1997).

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It was obvious that l "amour, which the Frenchman loved so much, was neither that lower and simple kind of love that Pierre once felt for his wife, nor that romantic love, inflated by himself, that he felt for Natasha (both types of this love Rambal equally despised - one was l"amour des charretiers, the other l"amour des nigauds) [the love of cab drivers, the other - the love of fools.]; l"amour, which the Frenchman worshiped, consisted mainly in the unnaturalness of relationships with women and in the combination of ugliness that gave the main charm to the feeling.
So the captain told the touching story of his love for one charming thirty-five-year-old marquise and at the same time for a charming innocent seventeen-year-old child, the daughter of a charming marquise. The struggle of generosity between mother and daughter, which ended with the mother, sacrificing herself, offering her daughter as a wife to her lover, even now, although a long-past memory, worried the captain. Then he told one episode in which the husband played the role of a lover, and he (the lover) played the role of a husband, and several comic episodes from souvenirs d'Allemagne, where asile means Unterkunft, where les maris mangent de la choux croute and where les jeunes filles sont trop blondes [memories of Germany, where husbands eat cabbage soup and where young girls are too blond.]
Finally, the last episode in Poland, still fresh in the captain’s memory, which he recounted with quick gestures and a flushed face, was that he saved the life of one Pole (in general, in the captain’s stories, the episode of saving a life occurred incessantly) and this Pole entrusted him with his charming wife (Parisienne de c?ur [Parisian at heart]), while he himself entered the French service. The captain was happy, the charming Polish woman wanted to run away with him; but, moved by generosity, the captain returned his wife to the husband, saying to him: “Je vous ai sauve la vie et je sauve votre honneur!” [I saved your life and save your honor!] Having repeated these words, the captain rubbed his eyes and shook himself, as if driving away the weakness that had seized him at this touching memory.
Listening to the captain's stories, as often happens in the late evening and under the influence of wine, Pierre followed everything that the captain said, understood everything and at the same time followed a number of personal memories that suddenly appeared to his imagination for some reason. When he listened to these stories of love, his own love for Natasha suddenly suddenly came to his mind, and, turning over the pictures of this love in his imagination, he mentally compared them with the stories of Rambal. Following the story of the struggle between duty and love, Pierre saw before him all the smallest details of his last meeting with the object of his love at the Sukharev Tower. Then this meeting had no influence on him; he never even thought about her. But now it seemed to him that this meeting had something very significant and poetic.
“Peter Kirilych, come here, I found out,” he now heard these words spoken, saw before him her eyes, her smile, her travel cap, a stray strand of hair... and something touching, touching seemed to him in all this.
Having finished his story about the charming Polish woman, the captain turned to Pierre with the question of whether he had experienced a similar feeling of self-sacrifice for love and envy of his lawful husband.
Provoked by this question, Pierre raised his head and felt the need to express the thoughts that were occupying him; he began to explain how he understood love for a woman a little differently. He said that in all his life he had loved and loves only one woman and that this woman could never belong to him.
- Tiens! [Look!] - said the captain.
Then Pierre explained that he had loved this woman from a very young age; but he did not dare to think about her, because she was too young, and he was an illegitimate son without a name. Then, when he received name and wealth, he did not dare to think about her, because he loved her too much, placed her too high above the whole world and therefore, especially above himself. Having reached this point in his story, Pierre turned to the captain with a question: does he understand this?
The captain made a gesture expressing that if he did not understand, he still asked to continue.
“L"amour platonique, les nuages... [Platonic love, clouds...],” he muttered. Was it the wine he drank, or the need for frankness, or the thought that this person does not know and will not recognize any of the characters in his story, or all together unleashed tongue to Pierre. And with a murmuring mouth and oily eyes, looking somewhere into the distance, he told his whole story: his marriage, and the story of Natasha’s love for his best friend, and her betrayal, and all his simple relationship with her. Provoked by Rambal’s questions, he also told him what he had hidden at first - his position in the world and even revealed his name to him.
What struck the captain most from Pierre’s story was that Pierre was very rich, that he had two palaces in Moscow, and that he gave up everything and did not leave Moscow, but remained in the city, hiding his name and rank.
It was late at night and they went out together. The night was warm and bright. To the left of the house the glow of the first fire that started in Moscow, on Petrovka, brightened. To the right stood high the young crescent of the month, and on the opposite side of the month hung that bright comet that was associated in Pierre’s soul with his love. At the gate stood Gerasim, the cook and two Frenchmen. Their laughter and conversation in a language incomprehensible to each other could be heard. They looked at the glow visible in the city.
There was nothing terrible about a small, distant fire in a huge city.
Looking at the high starry sky, the month, the comet and the glow, Pierre experienced joyful emotion. “Well, that’s how good it is. Well, what else do you need?!” - he thought. And suddenly, when he remembered his intention, his head began to spin, he felt sick, so he leaned against the fence so as not to fall.
Without saying goodbye to his new friend, Pierre walked away from the gate with unsteady steps and, returning to his room, lay down on the sofa and immediately fell asleep.

The glow of the first fire that started on September 2nd was watched from different roads by fleeing residents and retreating troops with different feelings.
That night the Rostovs' train stood in Mytishchi, twenty miles from Moscow. On September 1, they left so late, the road was so cluttered with carts and troops, so many things had been forgotten, for which people had been sent, that that night it was decided to spend the night five miles outside Moscow. The next morning we set off late, and again there were so many stops that we only got to Bolshie Mytishchi. At ten o'clock the gentlemen of the Rostovs and the wounded who were traveling with them all settled in the courtyards and huts of the large village. The people, the Rostovs' coachmen and the wounded's orderlies, having removed the gentlemen, had dinner, fed the horses and went out onto the porch.
In the next hut lay Raevsky’s wounded adjutant, with a broken hand, and the terrible pain he felt made him moan pitifully, without ceasing, and these groans sounded terribly in the autumn darkness of the night. On the first night, this adjutant spent the night in the same courtyard in which the Rostovs stood. The Countess said that she could not close her eyes from this groan, and in Mytishchi she moved to a worse hut just to be away from this wounded man.
One of the people in the darkness of the night, from behind the high body of a carriage standing at the entrance, noticed another small glow of a fire. One glow had been visible for a long time, and everyone knew that it was Malye Mytishchi that was burning, lit by Mamonov’s Cossacks.
“But this, brothers, is a different fire,” said the orderly.
Everyone turned their attention to the glow.
“But, they said, Mamonov’s Cossacks set Mamonov’s Cossacks on fire.”
- They! No, this is not Mytishchi, this is further away.
- Look, it’s definitely in Moscow.
Two of the people got off the porch, went behind the carriage and sat down on the step.
- This is left! Of course, Mytishchi is over there, and this is in a completely different direction.
Several people joined the first.
“Look, it’s burning,” said one, “this, gentlemen, is a fire in Moscow: either in Sushchevskaya or in Rogozhskaya.”
No one responded to this remark. And for quite a long time all these people silently looked at the distant flames of a new fire flaring up.
The old man, the count's valet (as he was called), Danilo Terentich, approached the crowd and shouted to Mishka.
- What haven’t you seen, slut... The Count will ask, but no one is there; go get your dress.
“Yes, I was just running for water,” said Mishka.
– What do you think, Danilo Terentich, it’s like there’s a glow in Moscow? - said one of the footmen.
Danilo Terentich did not answer anything, and for a long time everyone was silent again. The glow spread and swayed further and further.
“God have mercy!.. wind and dryness...” the voice said again.
- Look how it went. Oh my God! You can already see the jackdaws. Lord, have mercy on us sinners!
- They'll probably put it out.
- Who should put it out? – the voice of Danila Terentich, who had been silent until now, was heard. His voice was calm and slow. “Moscow is, brothers,” he said, “she is mother squirrel...” His voice broke off, and he suddenly sobbed like an old man. And it was as if everyone was waiting for just this in order to understand the meaning that this visible glow had for them. Sighs, words of prayer and the sobbing of the old count's valet were heard.

The valet, returning, reported to the count that Moscow was burning. The Count put on his robe and went out to have a look. Sonya, who had not yet undressed, and Madame Schoss came out with him. Natasha and the Countess remained alone in the room. (Petya was no longer with his family; he went forward with his regiment, marching to Trinity.)
The Countess began to cry when she heard the news of the fire in Moscow. Natasha, pale, with fixed eyes, sitting under the icons on the bench (in the very place where she sat when she arrived), did not pay any attention to her father’s words. She listened to the incessant moaning of the adjutant, heard three houses away.
- Oh, what a horror! - said Sonya, cold and frightened, returned from the yard. – I think all of Moscow will burn, a terrible glow! Natasha, look now, you can see from the window from here,” she said to her sister, apparently wanting to entertain her with something. But Natasha looked at her, as if not understanding what they were asking her, and again stared at the corner of the stove. Natasha had been in this state of tetanus since this morning, ever since Sonya, to the surprise and annoyance of the Countess, for some unknown reason, found it necessary to announce to Natasha about Prince Andrei’s wound and his presence with them on the train. The Countess became angry with Sonya, as she was rarely angry. Sonya cried and asked for forgiveness and now, as if trying to make amends for her guilt, she never stopped caring for her sister.