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The arms dealer incarcerated in the United States is part of a prisoner exchange with Russia, which frees basketball player Brittney Griner. Portrait.
By Jean Guisnel
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On the occasion of the announcement of an exchange of prisoners between the United States and Russia, Thursday, December 8, 2022, we offer you again the portrait of Viktor Bout.
LYes, it’s planes! Viktor Anatolijevitch Bout, born in 1967, adored them from an early age. In 1991, when the communist regime fell, the one who was to become the most famous arms dealer of his time was only 24 years old, already wearing a thick mustache, but already said to be a “former” pilot. In all likelihood, he is American basketball player Griner released following a prisoner exchange, especially a “former” spy of the GRU, the military intelligence who bottled him with kerosene, after having employed him in Angola as an interpreter for observers Russian UN troops belonging to Unamev I, a mission that…
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