The Merchant of Death: Arms Dealer Viktor Bout
The Underworld Podcast
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Boot Ships Guns to Governments
By 1999, Victor Boot was a millionaire running 30 planes and about 300 staff. The British foreign minister coins him as the merchant of death in 2000. In 2002, Belgian officials issue a restaurant accusing Boot of laundering over 300 million. He's also neighbors with Semyon MacGillovich, who's this Ukrainian who's one of the world's biggest gangsters.
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