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Viktor Bout
1967
- Nationality
- Soviet Union
- Occupation
- arms trafficker
Viktor Anatolyevich Bout (; Russian: ÐиÌкÑÐ¾Ñ ÐнаÑоÌлÑÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ ÐÑÑ, romanized: Viktor Anatolyevich But; born 13 January 1967) is a Russian arms dealer and politician.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Usp MarionDates unknown
- United States PenitentiaryDates unknown
Biography
Viktor Anatolyevich Bout (; Russian: ÐиÌкÑÐ¾Ñ ÐнаÑоÌлÑÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ ÐÑÑ, romanized: Viktor Anatolyevich But; born 13 January 1967) is a Russian arms dealer and politician. A weapons manufacturer and former Soviet military translator, he used his companies to smuggle arms from Eastern Europe to Africa and the Middle East during the 1990s and early 2000s. Bout gained the epithet the "Merchant of Death" after British minister Peter Hain read a report to the United Nations in 2003 on Bout's wide-reaching operations, extensive clientele, and willingness to bypass embargoes. In a 2008 US sting operation, Bout was arrested in Thailand on terrorism charges by the Royal Thai Police in cooperation with American authorities and Interpol. The United States Ambassador to Thailand Eric G. John requested his extradition, which was mandated by the Supreme Court of Thailand in 2010. Bout was accused of intending to sell arms to a United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) informer pretending to represent the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for use against American forces in Colombia, but Bout denied the charges and predicted an acquittal. In 2011, Bout was convicted by a jury at a federal court in Manhattan, of conspiracy to kill American citizens and officials, delivery of anti-aircraft missiles, and providing aid to a terrorist organization; he was sentenced to the minimum 25 years' imprisonment. From 2012 until 2022, Bout was held at the United States Penitentiary, Marion. In 2022, he was released in a prisoner exchange for American basketball player Brittney Griner, who had been sentenced, in August 2022, to nine years of imprisonment for bringing 0.7g of cannabis oil into Russia. Bout had served 10 years in prison before his release in December 2022. After returning to Russia, Bout joined the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia in 2022 and won a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Ulyanovsk Oblast as a member of the LDPR on 2 July 2023.
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