Effondrement de 1989 à 1995
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[2002] Arms and the Man
Victor Bout, by most accounts the world's largest arms trafficker, had agreed to meet me in the lounge of the Renaissance Hotel in Moscow, a monolithic post-Soviet structure populated by third-tier prostitutes and men in dark suits. Bout's older brother, Sergei, waited with me, as did Richard Chichakli, a Syrian-born naturalized American citizen who lives in Dallas.Viktor Anatolyevich Bout ( Russian : Виктор Анатольевич Бут ) (born 13 January 1967, near Dushanbe , Tajik SSR , Soviet Union ) is a convicted Russian arms smuggler of Ukrainian origins. [ 1 ] A citizen of Russia, he was arrested in Thailand in 2008 before being extradited in 2010 to the United States to stand trial on terrorism charges, after having being accused of intending to smuggle arms to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to use against U.S. forces. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] On 2 November 2011, he was convicted by a jury in a Manhattan federal court of conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens and officials, deliver anti-aircraft missiles and provide aid to a terrorist organization. [ 1 ] [ 5 ]
Viktor Bout
[2012] Viktor Bout, Arms Dealer, and His Rise and Fall
Viktor Bout made his first major foray into the weapons business in 1995, on a pleasant summer day in Bulgaria. A Russian entrepreneur who was then twenty-eight years old, he had flown to Sofia from Sharjah, the third-largest city in the United Arab Emirates, where he had lived for the previous two years. Sharjah was a kind of postmodern caravansary—as Bout told me recently, it was a place with “practically no law.”
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