Bakiev said: "Some people dislike the warm relations we have with Russia and the support [the president] is offering Kyrgyzstan."
He added: "I've never seen [Berezovsky] in my life and he hasn't seen me either. We've never had any ties. Our border guards today told me he never set foot in Bishkek."
A group of Kyrgyz opposition lawmakers on September 12 asked for a probe into reports that the Russian tycoon secretly flew to Kyrgyzstan from London in July and held talks with Bakiev and his son.
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