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Georgia, U.K. Officials Discuss Steel-Mill Ownership Dispute

U.K. officials are looking into claims by a British company that its steel mill in Georgia was effectively seized and sold off by that country's courts.

The issue involves a claim by Thomas Blake, a director at Thames Steel UK Ltd., that the mill was essentially given away by Georgia's courts. Mr. Blake's firm had bought the mill from Badri Patarkatsishvili, a Georgian tycoon whose death in February triggered a battle over his assets.