Russia's 'Merchant of Death' set for move to supermaximum security jail in Colorado
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Subject: Russia's 'Merchant of Death' set for move to supermaximum security jail in Colorado Sat May 12, 2012 12:04 pm
Viktor Bout, the convicted Russian arms dealer known as the "Merchant of Death," is to be transferred from his New York jail to a supermaximum security prison in Colorado, his defense lawyer said Friday.
Bout, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for conspiring to sell weapons to a Colombian terror group targeting Americans, is to move from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to the Florence Federal Correctional Facility in Colorado, his lawyer Andrei Garkusha told Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
Lawyers for the 45-year-old filed a formal request Thursday to Judge Shira Scheindlin, who presided over Bout's trial, asking her to reverse the transfer decision.
