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Marxism and Leninism on the pretense that the building hadbeen built illegally and was dangerous 306 , despite the fact the cityis full of dangerously built structures and there are no standardsthat regulate reconstruction on buildings nor evaluations ofseismic resistance on existing buildings. 307 But this dangerousbuilding was on property slated for a Kempinski hotel.Giorgi Seturidze, the chief executive officer of the Abu DhabiGroup in Georgia, which took over the hotel project in 2008,insists the building was in fact dangerous, as the foundation wasnot designed to hold the extra five stories that were built on it.“The problem wasn’t that they were evicted - the buildingwould have collapsed and they were well compensated.”Seturidze says. “The problem was how they were evicted.” 308Attorney’s for the residents said that the owners neverreceived an invitation to a hearing about the dispute 309 and theyweren’t given their legal right to appeal their evictions.Ironically, the Kempinski project has stalled, the resultSeturidze says, of government interference in Abu Dhabi Groupinvestments. Abu Dhabi Group is a United Arab Emirates (UAE)private equity company owned by Sheikh Nahayan Mubarak AlNahayan, member of the Abu Dhabi Royal Family 310 . Seturidzeand his consulting group brought Abu Dhabi to Georgia in 2007and they agreed to invest in telecommunications, banking andthe Kempinski hotel project. At that time, the Kempinski project306 Property Rights Controversy Dogs Georgia’s Privatization Campaign.Eurasianet.org http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav082207a.shtml Accessed 15/11/2012307 Expirience of Reconstruction and Rehabilitation of Historical Buildings inthe Downtown of Tbilisi. 12th World Conference on Earthquake Engineeringhttp://www.iitk.ac.in/nicee/wcee/article/2375.pdf Accessed 15/11/2012308 Author’s interview with Giorgi Seturidze. 11/11/2012.309 Property Rights Controversy Dogs Georgia’s Privatization Campaign.Eurasianet.org http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav082207a.shtml Accessed 15/11/2012310 PearlInitiative.com http://www.pearlinitiative.org/sheikh-nahyan-binmubarak-al-nahyan.htmlAccessed 12/12/201275