By Xinhua
London : Georgian businessman and opposition politician Badri Patarkatsishvili died here following a heart attack, the BBC reported Wednesday.
His former business associate, exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, said he died at about 2300 GMT Tuesday, said the report.
Patarkatsishvili, 52, who lived in self-imposed exile in Britain and Israel, financed his own campaign in January’s presidential election, which was won by incumbent Mikhail Saakashvili.
After the election Patarkatsishvili had been charged with plotting a coup in connection with anti-government protests last year, the report said.
A supporter of the Rose Revolution which brought Saakashvili to power in 2004, Patarkatsishvili later turned against the government and began financing opposition parties.
The authorities accused him of offering $100 million in 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.