Viktor Bout

6 hours agoViktor Bout has been international arms trafficking enemy number one for many years arming some of the most violent conflicts around the globe said Preet Bharara the US attorney in. Viktor Bout a former Soviet military officer is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence in the United States on charges of conspiring to kill Americans acquire and export anti-aircraft.

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5 hours agoMoscow long sought his release from US.

. Following months of intense negotiations the United States managed to secure Griners freedom in a one-to-one swap for Viktor Bout a notorious Russian arms dealer. Viktor Anatolyevich Bout is a Russian arms dealer. 5 hours agoViktor Bout center escorted by Thai police commandos arrives at Don Muang airport in Bangkok on Tuesday Nov. For almost two decades Bout became the worlds most notorious arms dealer selling weaponry to rogue states rebel groups and murderous warlords in Africa Asia and South America.

Russia got the jailed arms dealer back from the United States on. 6 hours agoViktor Bout is indeed the chief sanctions-buster and is a merchant of death who owns air companies that ferry in arms and other logistic support for the rebels in Angola and Sierra Leone and take. 3 hours agoBiden spoke next to Cherelle Griner the American WNBA basketball players visibly affected wife. The DEA agent who was involved in the investigation that led to Viktor Bouts conviction said hes disgusted by Bouts release after swap made for Brittney Griner.

Not included in the deal was another American prisoner of the Kremlin Paul Whelan. An entrepreneur and former Soviet military translator he used his multiple air transport companies to smuggle weapons since the collapse of the Soviet Union from Eastern Europe to Africa and the Middle East during the 1990s and early 2000s. Government began trying to disrupt Bouts operations at the end. LONDON Dec 8 Reuters - The life of Viktor Bout reads like a spy thriller.

Bout gained the nicknames the Merchant of Death and Sanctions Buster after Peter. 4 hours agoViktor Bout an outlaw Russian arms dealer known as The Merchant of Death was exchanged in a prisoner swap between the US and Russia for the safe return of WNBA star Brittney Griner on Dec.