FACTBOX: Who is Badri Patarkatsishvili?

(Reuters) - Georgian prosecutors charged opposition tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili, 52, on Thursday with plotting a coup and attempting to organize a terrorist attack.

A bitter opponent of President Mikhail Saakashvili, he left Georgia after mass opposition protests late last year.

Here are some key facts on Badri Patarkatsishvili:

* ROAD TO MILLIONS:

-- The silver-haired mustachioed Patarkatsishvili, whose name means "son of a little man", was born in Tbilisi in October 1955.

-- He made millions in Russia during the chaotic privatizations of the 1990s, is mainly based in London and Tel Aviv and has not been in Georgia since prosecutors said late last year he was wanted for questioning over coup plot charges.

-- He has close links to fugitive Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, who once wielded huge political influence in Moscow in the 1990s and lives in self-imposed exile in London.

-- His Russian-based business interests included AvtoVaz , the country's biggest car manufacturer, oil company Sibneft and aluminum firm Rusal.

-- When Berezovsky and Patarkatsishvili were charged in Russia with fraud, both left the country. They no longer own major stakes in the firms.