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...learned that the fugitive?sometimes referred to as the "Serpent"?was suspected of preying on Western backpackers following the hippie trail through Asia in the 1970s. By feigning illness, assuming new identities and even once setting his prison van on fire, Sobhraj escaped jail or evaded arrest in Afghanistan, Thailand, Hong Kong, France, Greece (twice), Turkey and Iran. In addition to the case of the two murdered backpackers in Kathmandu, Sobhraj is also suspected of killing five tourists in Thailand and one in Pakistan. He was acquitted of two murders in India...
...Shrestha is particularly troubled by the deaths of Dutch tourists Henricus Bintanja and Cornelia Hemker whose burned corpses were found in Thailand a few days after the Kathmandu killings. Shrestha remembers the names well: when he interrogated Sobhraj and LeClerc in Nepal, they passed themselves off as Bintanja and Hemker, presenting him the two dead tourists' passports in which the pictures had been altered...
...even from behind bars. Jailed for robbery in India in 1978, Sobhraj engineered an escape eight years later?only to allow his recapture the next month. As a result, his prison term in India was extended until the statute of limitations on his five alleged killings in Thailand expired...
...structures for how the bank handles everything from diversifying loan-portfolio risk to recruiting employees. In October, Wong moved up to CFO. Her charge: to add greater sophistication to the way DBS manages its capital and help the company further expand into Asian countries such as China, India, Thailand and Indonesia...
...picking up Western tourists and drugging and robbing them. By the time Indian police caught up with him in 1976-after he drugged a hotel buffet served to French tourists-he was a suspect in the murder of at least 20 travelers in Afghanistan, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Nepal, Thailand and Turkey. He served 21 years in jail before being repatriated to France. Kathmandu police found Sobhraj gambling in a five-star hotel casino; he is being held for questioning over the 1975 murders in the Nepalese capital of an American woman and a Canadian...