A man with enemies in high places  · Tycoon said foes in Tbilisi
were plotting to kill him · Activities also investigated in
Russia and Brazil  The death of Badri Patarkatsishvili, a
Georgian billionaire businessman who collapsed at his mansion in
Surrey, was referred to a serious crimes unit last night amid
fears that he may have been murdered.  While police stressed
there was no evidence of foul play, the tycoon's recent claims
that he was the target of an assassination plot, and some of the
details of his long and controversial business career, led
police to decide upon a painstaking investigation.  After making
millions during the wild days of 1990s privatisation in Russia,
he began to dabble in the volatile, and sometimes violent,
politics of his native country. Along the way he made friends
and enemies, probably in equal measure, of KGB officers, Chechen
warlords, political fixers and shadowy tycoons.  He had spent
the hours before his death in meetings with his advisers and
business associates, includi