Victor Bout, One Of The Biggest Criminal Minds Of Our

Victor Bout, One Of The Biggest Criminal Minds Of Our Time

Such man could arise only during 90th in post-USSR Russia. Victor Bout named "the most powerful player in the trafficking of illegal arms" is finally facing justice. He is already a living legend, but became more famous (or better to say infamous) only few years ago after the 2005 movie Lord of War, particularly based on his life, where he was played by Nicolas Cage and Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible, a book about him published in 2007. His clients were dictators, separatists and terrorists groups, and even western governments. He actually managed to sell arms to the U.S. government and to the UN even after he was officially declared a fugitive. Bout is most probably one of the greatest of the last criminal masterminds.

Viktor Bout started his career when he retired from the Russian Army 1993. The same year he started his first company Transavia Export Cargo and during all the years of arms trading his main trading tool were planes. He managed to build up a huge arms smuggling empire that was well hidden and at some points even not related to him. His success was immense only between 1992 and 1995 ha made an about $50 million from weapon trade with several Afghan groups. Bout made a significant amount of money by selling illegal arms to countries that the UN has placed arms embargoes on. In 1995 Bout established the Trans Aviation Network Group in Belgium, purchased a mansion there and started to live a luxurious life. In 1995 he also founded Air Cess Company was based in Equatorial Guinea and registered in Liberia. This company was focused on Africa and supplied weapons and ammunition to for African conflicts in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland and Uganda. Air Cess even had an office in Miami, Florida, but it was closed in 2001, after major investigation began. In 1997 the newspapers revealed his shady business and Belgian government started an investigation. Bout moved to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates and founded his United Arab Emirates Company. This man was considered to be the center of a spider's web of shady arms dealers, diamond brokers, and other operatives, sustaining the wars.

Bout became a high priority for international authorities only when his African arms dealings became prominent. But he was placed on a top-priority list for U.S. officials only after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, because he supplied weapons to the Taliban, which has close ties to al-Qaeda. In 2002 both Belgium and Interpol issued warrants for his arrest and he fled to Russia, where he remained protected by the Russian Constitution which does not allow extradition of citizens to foreign nations. Viktor Bout was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand on 6 February 2008, by US DEA agents. But only on September 22, 2008 A Bangkok Criminal Court began US extradition trials for him. Bouts' Thai attorney moved to dismiss the 4 terrorism conspiracy counts and Russian government stated that attempts to link this issue to international terrorism can damage the interests and reputation of Russia. Also the government stated that illegal prosecution Russian citizen Viktor Bout must be stopped and his rights must be secured.

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