Notorious international arms dealer Viktor Bout was freed by the Biden administration in exchange for wrongfully detained WNBA star Brittney Griner. Summary Notorious international arms dealer Viktor Bout was freed by the Biden administration in exchange for wrongfully detained WNBA star Brittney Griner. Viktor Bout’s life is the answer to the question, “How does someone earn the moniker “Merchant of Death?” Before his 2008 arrest for arms trafficking, Bout was the world’s premiere arms dealer for over two decades, with …
