LUKOil’s Top Executive’s Father Found Dead

(Tbilisi, Civil Georgia, December 12, 2002) – Sadi Sharifov, father of the Vice-President of the Russian energy company LUKOil Vagit Sharifov was found dead in South Georgia.

Sadi Sharifov, 79, ethnic Azeri, was abducted from his house in the village of Pantiani, southern Georgia on December 1. Unofficial reports said that the kidnappers demanded USD 400,000 ransom for his release.

Kakha Imnadze, Georgian President’s spokesman told the Rustavi 2 TV channel that the case would be investigated “very soon.”

He expressed the hope that the case would not deteriorate “friendly relations between the Georgian and Azeri population of the country.”

Mother of the Vice President of the Russo-Belarus oil company Slavneft is also abducted in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia in late November.

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