Viktor Bout

1 day agoInfamous arms dealer swapped for Brittney Griner. Viktor 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.

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1 day agoA Russian arms dealer labeled the Merchant of Death was released from a US.

. Viktor 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. Prison Thursday in exchange for WNBA star Brittney Griner. Bout gained the nicknames the Merchant of Death and Sanctions Buster after Peter. Viktor Bout 55 had served 11 years of his 25-year.

Christophe ArchambaultAFP via Getty Images Shes on her way home after months of being unjustly detained in Russia held in intolerable circumstances So President Biden announced Thursday from the. Viktor Bout is a man who many ordinary Russians have likely have heard of and he certainly is of mythological importance to the Russian elite. Alleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout in a cell at the Criminal Court in Bangkok in 2010. He is not someone Vladimir Putin wanted to leave behind.

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. Viktor Anatolyevich Bout is a Russian arms dealer. 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.