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     It took 13 years for Thai justice to catch up with Rakesh Saxena, an Indian-born banker who fled to Canada in 1996. Once there, Mr. Saxena dug in his heels during what became Canada’s longest-ever extradition case. Eventually, on October 30th, all his appeals exhausted, Mr. Saxena arrived back in Thailand to face criminal charges over his role in the insolvency of Bangkok Bank of Commerce (BBC) in 1996. The sorry tale of BBC, which was milked by bank executives and politicians under the nose of regulators, was, in retrospect, a dry run for the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis that began in Bangkok.
     For Thailand, putting Mr. Saxena on trial provides a bookend of sorts to the crisis. It also threatens to ensnare several politicians aligned to the present government who had dealings with BBC and may prefer Mr. Saxena’s silence. Prison officials have made a show of securing his cell to prevent anyone getting to him. Regulators hope to tie up loose ends from BBC’s collapse under the weight of $3 billion in bad loans. Its president was jailed in 2005 for fraud. But many others escaped censure.
     Mr. Saxena’s return was soon eclipsed, however, by recriminations over another sort of financial shenanigans. On November 1st two Thais, both share analysts, were arrested and charged for spreading false data under a 2007 computer-crime law. A third man was detained on November 3rd. Police say more may follow. The arrests follow a 7% fall in Thai shares over two days in October
     Mr. Saxena argued long and hard that Thai justice was neither free nor fair. He certainly knew how to play Canada’s judicial system, lodging umpteen appeals, while living under a luxury version of house arrest in Vancouver that was said to be saving taxpayers’ money. Armed with a phone and a computer, he made astonishing forays into murky global businesses. These included financing a never-completed coup in Sierra Leone, investing in a failed bank in Austria and attempting to buy the passport of a dead Yugoslav. Lawsuits seemed to dog his every move.
     Canadian police rumbled the passport scam. Britain’s parliament investigated the 1997 coup plot, hatched by British mercenaries. The idea was to install a friendly president who could secure bauxite and diamond mines, if Mr. Saxena stumped up $10m. Britain’s then foreign secretary, Robin Cook, called the plan “quite mind-boggling” and its backer “an Indian businessman, travelling on the passport of a dead Serb, awaiting extradition from Canada for alleged embezzlement from a bank in Thailand.” The thwarted fugitive may see himself as a martyr to globalization.

Which following statement is not TRUE about Mr. Saxena?