Viktor Bout Finally Going Home

Viktor Bout, the Russian businessman who was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand, in 2008, is finally on the way home after it was announced that President Biden of the USA agreed to a prisoner swap for Viktor Bout and WNBA basketball player Britney Griner. The news came as somewhat of a surprise after the matter went quiet for a few months from mid-2022 until today, 08 December 2022. This is major news for Viktor Bout who spent almost 3 years in the Bangkok Remand Prison (in the Klong Prem Prison Complex) and then almost 12 years in the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York City and then finally in Marion USP in Illinois, USA. From his arrest in March 2008 until now has been almost 15 years, in what was one of the largest profile extradition cases involving Thailand in history. Viktor Bout, having won his extradition case in the Court of First Instance (The Criminal Court in Ratchada, Bangkok), lost the appeal.

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