After spending 21 years in Indian jails Sobhraj retired to Paris to spend, as he put it, a tranquil life.
He has since made $15 million on a movie and book deal with French actor-producer Yves Renier.
A shrewd customer, he once asked a journalist $5000 to grant an interview.
Known as the 'The Serpent' for his poisonous ways, the master criminal is a media celebrity. But crime has a way of sneaking up on the perpetrator.
He was recently arrested in a casino in Nepal for killing two young women tourists in 1975 in the Himalayan kingdom.
Photo: Sondeep Shankar/Saab Press
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