Viktor Bout, Arms Dealer in Prisoner Swap, Remembered as Monster
Viktor Bout, the former Russian military officer convicted of illegal arms trafficking in U.S. courts in 2012, and who was serving a 25-year prison sentence, has had his sentence commuted and is being repatriated as part of a prisoner exchange that freed United States basketball star Brittney Griner from prison in Russia.
Bout, nicknamed the "Merchant of Death," started an air freight business in the years after