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Bout says ‘yes’ for Russia to ask US for extradition

Published time: August 21, 2012 09:38
Edited time: August 21, 2012 13:43
Viktor Bout (AFP Photo / Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)

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Moscow will shortly file a request to the American Department of Justice for the extradition of Viktor Bout back to his homeland. The Russian businessman was sentenced to 25 years in prison in the US.

Bout – a former Soviet officer who was convicted last fall of “conspiring to kill Americans” – has given his agreement for the Russian side to appeal for his extradition on the basis of the Council of Europe’s Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons (1983). Both Russia and the USA are signatories to the treaty.

The news was announced by a Russian diplomat, who recently visited Bout in his prison in Marion, Illinois. The nuance, the source told Itar-Tass, is that under the convention, the extradition request should be filed after the final verdict comes into effect.

However, Bout has pleaded not guilty and his lawyers are preparing to appeal the earlier court decision, which means the trial is not yet over. This may allow American authorities to decline the petition on a technicality. Meanwhile, a new request may only be sent two years after the previous one.

A diplomat said that during his two-hour conversation with the jailed businessman, he made sure that Bout realizes the judicial consequences of his plan. Still, he is set to go ahead with his intention to appeal the court ruling and is even ready to wait with the extradition in order to prove he is innocent.

Bout must make this decision himself, since that is “his fate, his sentence,” the diplomatic source told the agency. “We have a request from his wife, who is his authorized person. We must fulfill it and we will fulfill our obligations,” he added.

The Russian national, an owner of an air transport company, Viktor Bout was arrested in 2008 during a US sting operation in Thailand. He was extradited to the American soil in November 2010. On November 2, 2011, he was convicted by a jury in a New York federal court of intending to provide military weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) – which the United States ranks as a terrorist organization – and conspiracy to kill US citizens.

Comments (16)

Kevin Wiederhold 01.02.2013 17:56

A comment of mine removed from Yahoo serious mental defect American forums.

I stated ......"Do you all know that the word ASSOCIATION can be considered a conspiring racketeering enterprise according to federal law? Did you all know that Bar ASSOCIATION are actually a racketeering enterprise allowed to destroy your life and livelhood and are the pathetic party that is in charge of 'prosecuting' lawyers for their insane schizo greedy crimes ? How can a Bar #$%$_hol_ ciation be responsible for that? All conspiring racketeering coverups to protect racketeering lawyers and judges. Can you find the word ASSOCIATIONS in the Constitution?? Cmon fa tag FBI(SIO) scuzballs answer me. I am posting this on the Russian website as insane zionists from the USA placed Associations in many parts of their constitution insanely attempting to destroy their nation since 1990 using insane, scum lawyers. God bless them that they are figuring these insane things out now and kicking the trash out of their good, sane Godly Russian Orthodox democratic society/nation" God speed Russia. ..Also the US Dept of Insane Justice called me a piece of s__ this morning. Russia kindly grant me political asylum out of insane, schizo, tard nation asap. Thx 'Worthless Goyim Windsurfing (Iowa Corn Fed) Animal'.

So rry to say Russia, I have the worst 'unprecedented' case in American History. You dont see this man wanted to stay in the US do you? I know what I know because the cowards forced me to study in their prison libraries :o)

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A.Oscar 01.09.2012 20:59

Absurd attitudes of America Government to try jail someone that sale’s weapons when USA this year sold  more weapons then any country in the world. Just doing provocation and thinking that could control the world. Mr. Victor Baut is not a American citizen for them to try saying he sale weapons to kill Americans. What kind of attitudes pairing own that people minds now in America Government. Their braking International rules; even so he wasn’t in America either, that was a kidnapping style. A.Oscar  

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American Born Killers (unregistered) 28.08.2012 01:50

What about the U.S. conspiring to kill non Americans on this planet?

I say, bomb the U.S. and finish it off once and for all .. this monster titan.


go n-russky

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