BEREZOVSKY VISITED TBILISI ON SATURDAY NIGHT

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TBILISI, April 3 (RIA Novosti, Marina Kvaratskhelia) - Exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky arrived in the Georgian capital from Kiev on Saturday night, the Imedi TV company (Georgia) reported on Sunday.

Berezovsky met with Badri Patarkatsishvili, who was appointed president of the Georgian Olympic Committee in December.

The TV company gives no details on the number of Berezovsky's flight, the passport, which he showed at the airport and the issues he discussed with Patarkatsishvili. According to Imedi, the visit was short and Berezovsky returned to Kiev in the small hours of April 3.

Boris Berezovsky gave an interview, which will be shown on Sunday night.

The tycoon already visited Georgia on December 3, 2003 under the name of Platon Yelenin. He held a short meeting with Badri Patarkatsishvili and left Georgia.

In December 2003, chairman of the Georgian State Border Department, commander of the Georgian border troops Valery Chkheidze said that his subordinates had misinformed his about Berezovsky's visit.

"I was told that he was not wanted. We found the relevant Interpol inquiry some hours later," Chkheidze said.

"If he comes to Georgia again he will be detained by our border guards and hand him to the Interior Ministry or Prosecutor's Office. They will make a decision on him," Chkheidze noted adding that Beerzovsky had been put on the wanted list since January 2003.

On March 17, 2005 Boris Berezovsky announced his intention to visit Kiev. In his words, an interview with the Ukrainian Studio 1+1 TV company was the formal purpose of his trip.

According to the tycoon, the informal reason is that he just wants to do it.

Berezovsky is on the internationally wanted list. On August 6, 2003 the Russian Prosecutor General's Office launched criminal proceedings against Berezovsky and two former Logovaz heads Badri Patarkatsishvili and Yuli Dubov. They were accused of fraud and embezzlement.

Berezovsky was granted political shelter in the United Kingdom in September 2004. He has lived there since 2000.

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