Victor boot wrote to the judge basically saying, look, i've also worked for the e us. Companies. They've paid me six million dollars, and so why would you be convicting me? Of the way case was structured, they didn't charge him with a lot of other stuffs. He's sentenced to 25 years in a federal prison in marion Illinois. When does he start serving that sentence? Two thousand 11. Over the course of these 11 years, has russia ever made any stink about his imprisonment? Constantly. One could say that he may actually go back.
Viktor Bout might be the most successful arms dealer in history. The US could let him go free if Russia releases the WNBA star, who was just sentenced to nine years in prison. Bout’s biographer, Douglas Farah, explains.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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