Wealthy Georgian businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili, accused of a coup plot against the country's president, has died suddenly in Britain, his aides said on Wednesday.

British police said that "as with all unexpected deaths, it is being treated as suspicious". A post mortem would be held later to establish the cause of death, a police spokesman said.

Georgian public television reported that the flamboyant 52- year-old businessman had died of a heart attack at his house in Leatherhead, south of London. Patarkatsishvili's allies in Tbilisi called for international experts to launch an inquiry.

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