Viktor Bout

Viktor Bout

FILE PHOTO: Suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is escorted by members of a special police unit after a hearing at a criminal court in Bangkok October 5, 2010. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang

Freed Russian arms dealer Bout joins Kremlin-loyal ultranationalist party

FILE PHOTO: Suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is escorted by members of a special police unit after a hearing at a criminal court in Bangkok October 5, 2010. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang

Who is Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer swapped for Griner?

FILE PHOTO: US basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, is escorted before the verdict in Khimki outside Moscow, Russia, August 4, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool//File Photo

Brittney Griner released from Russia in prisoner swap with Viktor Bout