Twelfth Bough (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Bearing in mind yesterday's post about Dmitry Karlik, the Russian immigrant who murdered a family of six that lived across from the Chabad Lubavitch shul in Rishon Letzion, Israel, a case which has "rocked the entire nation" of Israel although good luck finding any news about it, and which is now under the personal jurisdiction of Benjamin Netanyahu and Internal Security Minister Yitzhak...
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Badri Patarkatsishvili, a Russian billionaire, died on February 12, 2008. Here are some of the interesting events that have unfolded since that time: Badri's family claimed that he did not leave a will. Several days after his death, Emanuel Zeltser,...
Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 04/03/2009
Bob Drogan writes in The Los Angeles Times : One of post-Soviet Russia's most powerful oligarchs, Badri Patarkatsishvili, left a business empire worth billions of dollars when he died of a heart attack in England on Feb. 12 last year. What he didn't leave, according to his family, was a will. But two days later, an obscure New York lawyer named Emanuel Zeltser appeared at the wake and told the grieving...
Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | 04/03/2009
Emanuel Zeltser had a career dogged by fraud allegations. Then a case involving a supposed secret will ended with his closed-door trial and conviction. As his health falters, the U.S. wants him back. One of post-Soviet Russia's most powerful oligarchs, Badri Patarkatsishvili, left a business empire worth billions of dollars when he died of a heart attack in England on Feb. 12 last year.
foreign notes (Free subscription) | 14/02/2008
The 'colourful' Georgian billionaire, Badri Patarkatsishvili, died today in London, possibly of a heart attack. British police are treating the death as "suspicious" and will unquestionably conduct a thorough investigation. EDM provide an excellent biography of the man. One portion of it intrigued me: “former KGB and FSB officer Andrei Lugovoi, the suspected assassin of Alexander Litvinenko...
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