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Merchant of Death
15-06-2017
2017
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captionThe Airstan crew were just one of dozens flying for entrepreneur, reputed billionaire, former Soviet military and suspected Russian intelligence agent, Viktor Bout. Due to his reputation for flying anything anywhere, Bout had become renowned as the world’s foremost arms dealer, earning the nickname ‘The Merchant of Death’. THE MOMENT the world’s most wanted arms dealer was captured thanks to the efforts of a former SAS soldier has been grippingly documented in a new book. On March 6th 2008, dozens of Thai police and American agents barged the huge bodyguard out of the way and burst in on hotel room where the ‘Merchant of Death’, as Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout, was known in the press, was hatching a multiple dollar arms deal with men he believed were South American terrorists, but who he was about to discover to his misfortune, were in fact undercover DEA agents. Thai police commander Taksin Sathon ordered everyone’s hands up as the notorious Bout reluctantly raised his hands, and casually admitted, “The game is over”.
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captionViktor Bout and Briton Andrew Smulian, a former pilot and business partner of Bout’s, in Moscow’s Red Square. They met to agree a multimillion dollar deal to sell tonnes of weaponry to the FARC, including hundreds of Igla anti-aircraft missiles. Those weapons would be air-dropped from Bout’s air-freighters at night direct into the FARC’s bases deep in the Colombian jungle. [Photos marked ‘Government Exhibit’ were used as evidence in Bout’s US trial]. THE MOMENT the world’s most wanted arms dealer was captured thanks to the efforts of a former SAS soldier has been grippingly documented in a new book. On March 6th 2008, dozens of Thai police and American agents barged the huge bodyguard out of the way and burst in on hotel room where the ‘Merchant of Death’, as Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout, was known in the press, was hatching a multiple dollar arms deal with men he believed were South American terrorists, but who he was about to discover to his misfortune, were in fact undercover DEA agents. Thai police commander Taksin Sathon ordered everyone’s hands up as the notorious Bout reluctantly raised his hands, and casually admitted, “The game is over”.
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captionThe conference suite in the Sofitel Hotel, Bangkok, to which Bout, and his Russian bodyguard Belozerovsky, were lured by the DEA undercover team, and where the hit went down. THE MOMENT the world’s most wanted arms dealer was captured thanks to the efforts of a former SAS soldier has been grippingly documented in a new book. On March 6th 2008, dozens of Thai police and American agents barged the huge bodyguard out of the way and burst in on hotel room where the ‘Merchant of Death’, as Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout, was known in the press, was hatching a multiple dollar arms deal with men he believed were South American terrorists, but who he was about to discover to his misfortune, were in fact undercover DEA agents. Thai police commander Taksin Sathon ordered everyone’s hands up as the notorious Bout reluctantly raised his hands, and casually admitted, “The game is over”.
