In this video grab, Russian businessman Viktor Bout talks to his relatives by a phone on board a private jet after the exchange on US basketball player Brittney Griner upon their arrival from Washington and Moscow respectively at Abu Dhabi Airport, United Arab Emirates. Intermediaries from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia oversaw the exchange of the prisoners. Bout, sentenced in 2012 to 25 years in a US prison on charges of conspiring to murder American citizens, export anti-aircraft missiles and financially support terrorism was exchanged on Griner, sentenced in 2022 to nine years for illegally bringing cannabis oil to Russia. Editorial use only, no archive, no commercial use.
- Package: UAE Russia US Prisoners Exchange
- Categories: Crime, Law & Justice
- Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Event date: 08.12.2022
- Date published: 08.12.2022
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 1154x738px, 401.8Kb
- Job-ID: dba00e4616e641ad