As one sanctions buster is arrested another walks free
Just a few days after one international gunrunner was arrested, another has been set free. Russian Viktor Bout, known as the ‘Merchant of Death’, was detained in Thailand on 6 March for conspiring to supply arms to Colombian FARC rebels. Four days later a court in the Netherlands overturned the 2006 conviction of Guus van Kouwenhoven, a Dutch citizen who had been sentenced to 8 years in prison for violating the UN arms embargo on Liberia.
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