The birth of Viktor Bout’s daughter, Elizaveta Bout, took place in 1994 in the United Arab Emirates. Her mother’s name is Alla Bout, while her father is Viktor Bout.
She is the sole offspring of her parents. In 2022, she is 28 years old, and her exact birth date remains unidentified.
Owing to her avoidance of the public eye, there is little knowledge about her. Recently, her father has returned to Russia.
In a remarkable exchange deal involving the notable arms trafficker Viktor Bout, also known as the “Merchant of Death,” who had been incarcerated in the U.S. for 12 years, Russia set free the imprisoned U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner on Thursday.
In a statement disseminated by Russian news outlets, the Russian Foreign Ministry acknowledged the exchange, affirming that Bout was repatriated following the operation in Abu Dhabi.
Upon her arrival in Abu Dhabi from a Russian aircraft, Griner was met by a U.S. official, as depicted in Russian media. Meanwhile, Bout was welcomed by two Russians.
Subsequently, Bout was featured on Russian television disembarking from the plane on a snow-covered airstrip in Moscow, where his mother and wife greeted him, presenting him with flowers.
The United States released Bout, a former Soviet Army lieutenant colonel whom the Justice Department formerly labeled as one of the most active arms dealers globally.
He was arrested in Thailand in 2008 and extradited to the United States in 2010.
Bout was serving a 25-year sentence on charges of conspiring to sell weapons totaling tens of millions of dollars, which U.S. authorities believed would be used against Americans.
To finalize the prisoner exchange, Biden granted executive clemency to release the arms dealer from a federal prison in Illinois.
What transpired with her father?
Viktor Anatolyevich Bout, Elizaveta’s father, is a Russian arms dealer and former Soviet military interpreter.
Viktor Bout was apprehended in Bangkok, Thailand, in 2008 after American operatives posed as Colombian insurgents in an undercover operation.
On November 2, 2011, a jury in a Manhattan federal court convicted Bout of conspiring to kill Americans, as well as of attempting to purchase and export anti-aircraft missiles and offering support to a terrorist group.
He was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Due to a prisoner swap initiated by the U.S. President to free the American citizen and basketball player Brittney Griner, who was also detained in Russia, Viktor Bout was granted release on December 8, 2022.
Victor Bout, who was serving a lengthy prison sentence in the United States, was visited by Elizaveta and her mother, Alla, in 2019.
At Marion Federal Prison, the family had their first opportunity to reunite since his incarceration in 2012.
