Word: nepal
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...ASIA Japan: Is recovery for real? Nepal: Return of the Serpent China: Police under fire Interview: Pervez Musharraf...
...years old when he tried to arrest Asia's most notorious murder suspect for the killing of two backpackers in Kathmandu. Shrestha examined their corpses, interviewed eyewitnesses, called in handwriting experts, grilled his "restless" suspect, and was soon sure he had the right man. But in December 1975, Nepal was incredibly polite to foreign visitors so Shrestha's superiors told him to respect the do not disturb sign on the door of Charles Sobhraj's room at Kathmandu's smartest hotel. The inspector's men waited in the lobby for two days for Sobhraj to surrender like a gentleman. Instead...
...Sobhraj, he denies the murder accusations and says he's never visited Nepal before...
...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...
...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...