Viktor Anatolyevich Bout is a Tajik-born Russian arms dealer and politician. A weapons manufacturer and former Soviet military translator, he used his multiple companies to smuggle arms from Eastern Europe to Africa and the Middle East during the 1990s and early 2000s. Bout gained the nicknames the "Merchant of Death" and "Sanctions Buster" after British minister Peter Hain read a report to the United Nations in 2003 on Bout's wide-reaching operations, extensive clientele, and willingness to bypass embargoes.
Bout in 2010
An Il-76 formerly used by Bout's Centrafrican Airlines
An Il-76 formerly used by Air Cess and Air Pass, a joint venture between Bout and a South African company
Bout in DEA custody (16 November 2010)
In an extradition, one jurisdiction delivers a person accused or convicted of committing a crime in another jurisdiction, over to the other's law enforcement. It is a cooperative law enforcement procedure between the two jurisdictions and depends on the arrangements made between them. In addition to legal aspects of the process, extradition also involves the physical transfer of custody of the person being extradited to the legal authority of the requesting jurisdiction.
An extradition document from the St. Louis Police Department in the United States, requesting the extradition of a murder suspect suspected of fleeing to Auckland in New Zealand, 1885.
Swedish extradition of German and Baltic soldiers to the Soviet Union in January 1946
Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía being extradited to face charges in the United States.
Viktor Bout extradited to the United States aboard a Drug Enforcement Administration plane.
