Arms dealer Viktor Bout found guilty in US
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A US jury has found a former Russian arms dealer guilty on charges of attempting to sell arms to a Colombian group.
Viktor Bout, a former Soviet air force officer who was the subject of a book titled Merchant of Death, was arrested in Bangkok in 2008 after a US Drug Enforcement Administration sting in which US informants posed as Colombian rebels.
Bout was extradited in August 2010 after a Thai court overturned an earlier rejection of an extradition request by the US authorities.
Prosecutors said Bout stood to make millions from supplying weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) rebel group.
Kristen Saloomey reports from New York.
Viktor Bout, a former Soviet air force officer who was the subject of a book titled Merchant of Death, was arrested in Bangkok in 2008 after a US Drug Enforcement Administration sting in which US informants posed as Colombian rebels.
Bout was extradited in August 2010 after a Thai court overturned an earlier rejection of an extradition request by the US authorities.
Prosecutors said Bout stood to make millions from supplying weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) rebel group.
Kristen Saloomey reports from New York.
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