“It would be enough for her to read the text of the sentence in order to see Victor accused of conspiracy, of intent ... Words about drugs are frank slander,” said Buta’s wife.
According to her, Latynina’s statements in her programs are “an absolutely speculative distortion of facts”, which “weren’t in the case at all”.
Latynina in her program called Bout “one of the world's largest arms dealers,” noting that he “agreed in exchange for cocaine to deliver Russian land-to-air missiles to drug rebels.
Viktor Bout was detained in Thailand in 2008 and extradited to the United States, where he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for allegedly planning to kill American citizens.