![]() The trio’s scams usually involved helping tourists in need, gaining their trust, and then drugging them to steal their valuables. In Bangkok, Sobhraj was joined by his two infamous associates: Marie-Andrée Leclerc, a traveler from Quebec, and Ajay Chowdhury, an Indian man. Chantal, tired of a life of crime, subsequently left Sobhraj, and he spent 2 years on the run scamming tourists, before landing up in Bangkok. Soon after, he escaped from prison in Delhi, only to be arrested again in Afghanistan, where he escaped from prison again by feigning illness and drugging the guard at the prison hospital. The two finally arrived in India, where Chantal gave birth to their baby daughter, and Sobhraj was eventually arrested for his infamous heist at the Ashoka hotel in Delhi. Chantal, however, stayed true to him, and the two were married upon Sobhraj’s release.Įventually leaving France to avoid getting imprisoned again, Sobhraj and Chantal embarked on a crime spree across Eastern Europe, where Sobhraj was able to hone his skills at duping tourists and forging passports, something that became his trademark in later years. He also met his future wife, Chantal Compagnon, in Paris but was arrested for car theft on the night they were engaged. He was able to enter into French high society and, during his 20s, began accumulating wealth through scams and robberies. Multiple times as a child, he survived bomb blasts while seeing others around him perish, which, it is conjectured, gave him a feeling of being special and less prone to fallibility than those around him.Ĭharles spent his adolescence between Vietnam and France and started committing petty crimes from a young age. Image Credit: ‘The Serpent,’ BBC One and NetflixĪccounts of Charles’ childhood describe him as resourceful and scrappy, as he grew up hustling on the streets of war-torn Saigon. Charles grew up unruly and refused to accept Jacques Roussel, his mother’s new French husband, as his father. ![]() Sobhraj was adopted by his mother’s French boyfriend and taken to France, along with his younger sister Nicole. Here’s all we found out.Ĭharles Sobhraj was born Hatchand Bhaonani Gurumukh Charles Sobhraj in Saigon in 1944 to an Indian Sindhi businessman (Sobhraj Hatchand Bhaonani) and a Vietnamese shop worker (Tran Loan Phung). We decided to dig around and find out just who the suave and allegedly psychopathic Sobhraj really is and where he is now. ![]() Known as one of the most notorious fraudsters and serial killers in the world, he has inspired multiple books and scripts, including that of ‘The Serpent,’ a mini-series co-produced by BBC One and Netflix. Amidst the jovial freedom and chaos of travelers lurked the mysterious character of Charles Sobhraj, who is suspected of killing at least 12 young travelers between 19, and up to almost 30 people in total. ![]()
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