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Bout zat in de VS een gevangenisstraf van 25 jaar uit vanwege onder meer een samenzwering om Amerikanen te doden. De Russische oud-militair speelde jarenlang een belangrijke rol in de internationale wapenhandel, wat hem de bijnamen 'Lord of War' en 'Merchant op Death' opleverde.

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Op donderdag 8 december 2022 14:32 schreef H0D3NPYL het volgende:
Goede boevenkop heeft die Viktor Bout

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District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the minimum sentence was appropriate because "there was no evidence that Bout would have committed the crimes for which he was convicted had it not been for the sting operation"

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Op donderdag 8 december 2022 14:32 schreef Scorpie het volgende:
Dat is toch dat verknipte wijf dat anti-US was, toen opgepakt en veroordeeld werd, en vervolgens begon te janken dat de US haar terug moest halen?

Had haar lekker kapot laten gaan daar.

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Op donderdag 8 december 2022 14:41 schreef H0D3NPYL het volgende:

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Lees ondertussen dat ze een oud US Marine daar laten zitten Paul Whelan

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Op donderdag 8 december 2022 14:44 schreef superniger het volgende:
Nu kan weer huiselijk geweld plegen.
https://bleacherreport.co(...)stic-violence-arrest

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Op donderdag 8 december 2022 14:41 schreef H0D3NPYL het volgende:

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Lees ondertussen dat ze een oud US Marine daar laten zitten Paul Whelan

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Whelan is a citizen of Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. His twin brother David ascribed Paul's acquisition of the passports to "probably a genealogical interest as much as anything."

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Op donderdag 8 december 2022 14:43 schreef 3rr0r het volgende:

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Oh ja, die zou samen met Griner geruild worden. Vreemd dat ze die er niet bij konden krijgen voor zo'n grote wapenhandelaar.

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Russia wants more in prisoner swap

Bloomberg reported Monday that its sources inside the Kremlin said the Russian government wouldn't make a two-for-one deal. If the U.S. wants to see both Whelan and Griner released, it will need to trade for two Russians.

And CNN reported last week that Russian leaders asked the U.S. to include Vadim Krasikov, a former colonel in Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), in the deal.

But that's not a simple arrangement. It involves negotiations with another country because Krasikov is serving a sentence of life in prison in Germany after being convicted of killing a former Chechen fighter in 2019 in Berlin’s Tiergarten Park.

Adrienne Watson, a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, said in a statement to Bloomberg: “Holding two wrongfully detained Americans hostage for the release of a Russian assassin in a third country’s custody is not a serious counteroffer. It is a bad faith attempt to avoid the deal on the table that Russia should take.”

David Whelan noted that an Interfax report quoted Ivan Melnikov, vice president of the Russian branch of the International Committee for the Defense of Human Rights, saying the U.S. should trade Bout for Griner, but leave Whelan out of the deal.

“I think that a gradual exchange can be more effective, and you can offer to change Mr. Whelan in the future, since a large number of Russian citizens are kept in American prisons,” Melnikov said in the report.
Calls to exclude Whelan

And Izvestia, a news organization the BBC classifies as pro-Kremlin, reported Tuesday that a "high-ranking informed source" said the degree of Whelan's so-called offense — espionage — demands a heftier trade.

"The competent authorities of the Russian Federation" do not consider "the possibility of exchanging a spy for a civilian," Izvestia's inside source reportedly said.