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Tycoon tells of plot to kill him in London

 businessman living in Britain fears he has been targeted in an assassination plot being planned in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.Badri Patarkatsishvili, Georgia’s richest man who is running for the country’s presidency next month, was to be murdered in London, according to one option said to have been discussed with his would-be assassin.

The oligarch’s fears are supported by a covertly recorded audio-tape of a conversation said to have taken place between the intended hitman and an official from the Georgian interior ministry.

The plot is a chilling echo of the murder in London last year of the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. 

A second option was to kill Patarkatsishvili as he flew in his private plane to a castle he owns in southern Georgia.

The tycoon has retained the services of a London firm of lawyers that employs Lord Goldsmith, the former attorney-general. Police are to be informed of the alleged plot. Goldsmith, who has travelled several times to Georgia on behalf of the tycoon, said yesterday he was aware of the tape.

However, he emphasised he had not heard the tape and could not therefore vouch for its authenticity. “I know that this is a matter which Mr Patarkatsishvili takes very seriously. I do believe that he has given instructions for the police to be notified,” Goldsmith said

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