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Viktor Anatolyevich Bout [a] (/ b uː t /; Russian: Ви́ктор Анато́льевич Бут; born 13 January 1967) is a Russian arms dealer and politician. A weapons manufacturer and former Soviet military translator, he used his multiple companies to smuggle arms from Eastern Europe to Africa and the Middle East during the 1990s and early 2000s.
Variously dubbed “the merchant of death” and “the sanctions buster” for his ability to get around arms embargoes, Bout, 55, was one of the world's most wanted men prior to his 2008 arrest ...
President Biden announced Thursday that Brittney Griner has been released from a Russian penal colony in a prisoner swap with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
STORY: Who is Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer jailed in the United States?The 55-year-old has been dubbed “the merchant of death” and “the sanctions buster” for his ability to get ...
Viktor Bout in the custody of DEA agents on November 16, 2010, after being extradited to the United States. Bout was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand on March 6, 2008, after being the target of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration sting operation, in which U.S. agents, claiming to represent the Colombian rebel group FARC, negotiated with Bout for the supply of 100 9K38 Igla surface-to-air ...
The Ministry of Emergencies in Irkutsk Oblast announced on BBC Ukraine that the driver's name was Viktor Davydov (Davydov was the maiden surname of Viktor's mother), but Nestor Shufrych confirmed that the deceased was a son of the former president, Viktor Yanukovych. [6] He was buried in a Russian military cemetery at Sevastopol in Crimea. [7]
Known as the "Merchant of Death," Viktor Bout is now back home in Russia as part of an international swap that has given basketball star Brittney Griner new life. Bout is a Russian arms smuggler ...
Viktor is a ruthless vampire Elder and, with armies loyal to him, he overthrows the original Vampire Markus and sets himself up in Vampire myth as the first Vampire. Viktor is the most powerful Vampire ever to have lived mostly because his manipulation, experience, and cunning far surpass the other Elders'.