'Merchant of Death' Jailed for 25 Years
[DOJ]
New York -
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that international arms dealer VIKTOR BOUT was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons, including hundreds of surface-to- air missiles and over 20,000 AK-47s to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (the "FARC"), a designated foreign terrorist organization based in Colombia.
- 800 surface-to-air
- Africa
- American court
- Andrew Smulian
- Anjan Sahni
- Arrest
- Assistant U.S. Attorneys
- Attorney
- Brendan R. McGuire
- Colombia
- Conviction
- Department of Treasury
- District Judge
- Generic Relations
- High Court of Cassation and Justice
- Indictment
- International Arms Dealer
- judge
- Kalashnikov
- Law
- Liberia
- Manhattan Federal Court
- Manhattan Federal Court
- Netherlands Antilles
- New York
- Office's Terrorism and International Narcotics Unit
- Person Career
- Politics
- Preet Bharara
- prosecutor
- Quotation
- Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
- Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
- Romanian National Police
- Royal Thai Police
- Shira A. Scheindlin
- South America
- Thailand
- the Netherlands Antilles
- U.S. Department of Justice's Office of International Affairs
- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
- U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control
- United States
- USD
- Viktor Bout
- Viktor Bout
- War