By Peter Olszewski
Friday, 25 November 2011
The Phnom Penh Post
Siem Reap, a stopover point for the rich and famous, is also the ideal hang for major gangsters on the run, or at least it was back in 2000 when the notorious Indian crime lord Chhota Rajan (pictured) holed up in the city after a dramatic escape from Bangkok, where he had been victim as such of an equally dramatic attempt to kill him by rival crime gang bosses.
This has come to light following the arrest in Bangkok on August 6 of fugitive gangster Santosh Shetty.
According to the Times of India, Shetty was, “Once the right hand man of Chhota Rajan, on the country’s most-wanted list, Shetty is suspected in the February 2009 killing of lawyer Shahid Azmi, who was representing suspects in the serial train blasts, the November 2010 killing of Rajan henchman Farid Tanasha and the October 2010 killing of gangster Bharat Nepali in a Bangkok hotel.”
Shetty was arrested in a Bangkok beer bar after he got into a brawl with a few businessmen.
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