What you need to know about Viktor Bout, the ‘merchant of death,’ traded for Brittney Griner | Semafor

What you need to know about Viktor Bout, the ‘merchant of death,’ traded for Brittney Griner | Semafor

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Viktor Bout, 55, is a Russian arms dealer who was sentenced in the U.S. in 2012 to 25 years in prison for conspiring to kill Americans, providing material support to terrorist organizations, and trading anti-aircraft missiles. He was arrested in Thailand in 2008, and later extradited to the U.S.…

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