Georgian Exile Died of Natural Causes: Police

Tests on a billionaire Georgian opposition leader found dead yesterday in his London-area home show he died of natural causes, the Telegraph reports. Badri Patarkatsishvili, 52, said in December he had been the target of two assassination attempts, and his death surprised acquaintances, who said he was in good health, and raised suspicions of foul play. 

The former presidential candidate had said he would not return to his native Georgia because "I haven't decided to die yet." Patarkatsishvili, worth an estimated $11 billion, was a business associate and friend of Boris Berezovsky, the exiled Russian oligarch at the center of the Alexander Litvinenko affair. Police are understood to have tested for radioactivity at Patarkatsishvili's home, but found no evidence. (More Badri Patarkatsishvili stories.)