Investigators had spent weeks tapping Gupta’s phone, probing sensational allegations he had backed a political coup on the small Pacific Island of Nauru by bribing multiple politicians who had plotted to topple the government.
The new government, Gupta hoped, would give him complete control over the island nation’s lucrative mining rights, but an arrest now could mean years in jail.
If these moments of apprehension, with the Australian police snapping at his heels, were Gupta’s low point, they were fleeting. As his plane soared into the…
