The lawyers of Viktor Bout have acknowledged for the first time that their client was engaged in arms trade. The defense made their statement at a pre-trial hearing in New York earlier this week.
Bout was extradited to the United States from Thailand in 2008 on charges of attempting to sell a large batch of arms into Colombia to representatives of the FARC group that intended to use them to kill U.S. citizens.
FARC is an acronym for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a guerrilla group that fights against U.S. influence.
Bout has pleaded non guilty to the charges. If convicted, he faces from 25 years to life in prison.
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