Russia confirms Brittney Griner prisoner swap for arms dealer Bout

Thu, Dec 8, 2022
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MOSCOW confirmed Thursday it had exchanged US basketball star Brittney Griner, who had been jailed in Russia, for notorious arms trafficker Victor Bout who was serving a 25-year sentence in the United States.

“On December 8, 2022, at the Abu Dhabi airport, the exchange of Russian citizen Viktor Bout for US citizen Brittney Griner… was successfully completed,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 08, 2008 Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout waits at a detention center of criminal court in Bangkok. US President Joe Biden said on December 12, 2022 that US women’s basketball star Brittney Griner is “on her way home” after being freed from Russia in a prisoner swap with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. – The US athlete was arrested at a Moscow airport in February 2022 and handed nine years in prison in August for possessing vape cartridges with a small quantity of cannabis oil. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP)

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