Viktor Bout: The Man Behind the World's Deadliest Wars

they called him The Merchant of death but even for this guy that nickname may have been a little tamed Victor bout was basically a real life super villain making a fortune as a black market Kingpin he supplied insane amounts of sophisticated Weaponry all over the globe sometimes even arming both sides in the same conflict bout's business deals grew bigger and bigger over the years safe from American extradition while on Russian soil bout made $50 million from just one business deal supplying the Taliban with military equipment and had a net worth of over $6 billion but in 2008 he was lured to Bangkok for a business deal just couldn't refuse an inquiry for hundreds of missiles machine guns and sniper rifles five tons of explosives and over 10 million bullets the deal was a sting operation by the DEA and Fon had a new home inside of a federal prison for supplying weapons that would go directly into the hands of a terrorist organization there he sat until 2022 when he got out of his 25e sentence 14 years early through a stroke of good luck bout was released in a hostage exchange for WNBA star Britney Griner who at the time was being held in Russia on drug charges