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The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Episode 70: Viktor Bout

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 70, Jeff delves into the life of Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. Bout began his life as a soldier ultimately starting an air transport business and then began moving guns and weapons to foreign rebels and governments. In the end he was arrested by the DEA in an elaborate scheme and got a long prison sentence. He was been in the news recently as a pawn and bargaining chip to get WNBA player Brittney Griner out of a Russian prison. PLEASE give us a follow on socials! FOLLOW US ON YOUTUBE and please subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYV0eyKQFhNZwLXpx7I0Ng FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @thesitdown7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to The Sit Down, a Mafia History Podcast. Here's your host, Jeff Nado.

1:15.7

What's up everybody and welcome in to another edition of The Sit Down, a Mafia History

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Podcast. I'm your host, Jeff Nado. As always, we are back and better than never another

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episode of The Sit Down. You know what we do in this show? We talk about organized crime,

1:30.0

the Mafia, the drug trade, and everything in between. Today we got, as usual, a gigantic

1:36.0

show. I got to tell you, this is one that I planned on doing for a long time. I wanted

1:41.8

to get into a little bit of arms dealing. However, I didn't know what we'd quite do. Luckily,

1:47.7

the news provided us an opportunity to get into really the most notorious arms trafficker

1:53.7

in the history of the globe, Victor Boot. If you've been following the news in Russia,

2:00.3

the incarceration of Brittany Griner has been a talking point of many. As we know, she

2:05.4

would be arrested at a Russian airport after she attempted to, you know, basically smuggle

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