"He's a British national. He is free to come to Georgia and leave any time he likes," added the minister as he highlighted the status of political refugee, which Boris Berezovsky enjoys in the UK.
"Georgia has no grudges at all against him," pointed out Mr. Khaindrava.
Controversial Russian business tycoon and political activist, Berezovsky illegally visited Georgia in winter 2003, with identity papers in which he figured as Platon Elenin. He arrived in the Tbilisi airport, 01.00, Moscow time, December 3, in his own plane, and left a few hours later by the same craft. The information reached Novosti on a previous occasion from the Georgian top military prosecutor's office.
The office launched criminal negligence proceedings against the frontier checkpoint officer who had authorized Berezovsky's entry.
