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...Serbia, itself, Russia capitalized literally, on the standoff over Kosovo. In Belgrade, just a week before he became Russia's President-elect, Dmitri Medvedev supervised Serbia's signing up to a prospective Russian Southern Stream natural gas pipe-line. Serbia also sold to Russia a 51% stake of Naftna Industrija Srbija (NIS), a much prized national oil company for $614 million and the promise of a further investment of $770 million. Russia plans build a major gas storage facility in Serbia, making the country a key base for Russian energy supplies to Europe. This consolidation of ties with Serbia achieves...
...guard down just as a complex web of international police agencies were closing in on him. The potential buyers said they represented the leftist Colombian rebel group FARC - but they turned out to be part of a U.S.-led sting operation that had lured him out of his Russian refuge and tracked him through South America, Europe and Asia. On Thursday, he was finally arrested in Bangkok, Thailand...
...doughy, broad-shouldered 41-year-old Russian whom Thai police paraded before the press on Friday in an orange golf shirt is a monstrous example of entrepreneurial business acumen gone over to the dark side. He is believed to have supplied arms to the warring factions in Afghanistan, including the Taliban, as well as the perpetrators of some of the worst violence in Africa's interminable civil wars. Experts believe he has shipped AK-47s to every corner of the world. He even appears to have used U.S. airbases in Iraq in 2004 as part of his arms trafficking...
...charging documents filed with the Southern District of New York, a confidential source working for the DEA emailed an associate of Bout in November to arrange for an arms shipment FARC. Using the code words "farming equipment" in the emails, Bout's intermediary allegedly planned for 100 Russian-made Ingla surface-to-air missiles to be air-dropped into FARC territory inside Colombia. After meetings in Curacao, Copenhagen and Bucharest, the DEA, through confidential sources, arranged for Bout to travel to Bangkok, Thailand to finalize the deal on March 6. That's when the Royal Thai police, working with...
...getting him in front of an American judge will be difficult. Thai authorities, who seem to be enjoying the publicity, said they are considering trying him in Thailand first before extraditing him. Other countries like Belgium, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates have also been investigating Bout. The Russian media has reported that the Kremlin may request Thailand extradite him to Moscow, where he has been living in recent years. If that happens, it is unlikely he would face any charges at all. But, for Viktor Bout, it doesn't look like he gets to write his own ending...