Viktor Bout

Viktor Anatolyevich Bout (; ; ) adalah seorang pedagang senjata asal Rusia. Dia merupakan pengusaha dan mantan penerjemah militer Soviet, dia menggunakan banyak perusahaannya untuk menyelundupkan senjata mulai dari runtuhnya Uni Soviet dari Eropa Timur ke Afrika dan Timur Tengah selama tahun 1990-an dan awal 2000-an. Bout mendapatkan julukan "Merchant of Death" dan "Sanctions Buster" setelah menteri pemerintah Inggris Peter Hain membaca laporan kepada Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa pada tahun 2003 tentang operasi Bout yang luas jangkauannya, klien yang luas, dan kesediaan untuk menghindari embargo.

Dari Juni 2012 hingga Desember 2022, Bout berada di Penjara Marion, sebelum dibebaskan dalam pertukaran tahanan dengan pemain bola basket Brittney Griner.

Referensi

Daftar pustaka
 Estulin, Daniel Shadow Masters Oregon: Trine Day, 2010. ISBN 978-0979988616. The author spent six months attending court hearings and interviewing Bout in prison.

Pranala luar 

 Cached copy of Victor Bout's Personal Website
 Indictment of Viktor Bout, 6 May 2008, U.S. Department of Justice, Southern District of New York 
 "U.S. Announces New Indictment Against International Arms Dealer Viktor Bout and American Co-Conspirator for Money Laundering, Wire Fraud, and Conspiracy", Press Release, United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, 17 February 2010
 Indictment of Viktor Bout, 17 February 2010, U.S. Department of Justice, Southern District of New York
 "Statement of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara on the Conviction of Viktor Bout", Press Release, United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, 2 November 2011
 "International Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Sentenced in Manhattan Federal Court to 25 Years in Prison for Terrorism Crimes", Press Release, United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, 5 April 2012
 "Who is Viktor Bout?" The Christian Science Monitor, 22 October 2009
 Extensive background information on United States vs. Viktor Bout and related cases  The Hague Justice Portal
 Gallery of International Arms Dealers – Victor Bout PBS Frontline/World
 Arms and the Man. The New York Times Magazine profile of Viktor Bout
 The World's Most Notorious Arms Trafficker (Audio/32min) WNYC interview with Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun WNYC
 NPR interview of Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun National Public Radio, 11 July 2007
 Brian Wood and Johan Peleman 1999, "The Arms Fixers", online version of report published by Basic Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers (NIST) and the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)
 "The deadly convenience of Victor Bout" International Relations and Security Network
 Robert Eringer:"Viktor Bout & Monaco", August 2010

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