However, there is one problem: his life is simply not exciting enough, which is why he has almost no viewers. He dreams of becoming a well-known online streamer by streaming his everyday life. "I've never touched diamonds in my life and I'm not a diamond guy and I don't want that business. Jonathan is a young man with a big dream. "It's a false allegation and it's a lie," he said. She asked him about allegations against him - did he sell arms to the Taliban? To al Qaeda? Did he supply rebels in Africa and get paid in blood diamonds? - and he denied each claim. In 2002, CNN's Jill Dougherty met with Bout in Moscow.
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He first became known when the United Nations began investigating him in the early-to-mid 1990s and the United States began to get involved.īout - who reportedly has used names including "Victor Anatoliyevich Bout," "Victor But," "Viktor Butt," "Viktor Bulakin" and "Vadim Markovich Aminov" - is thought to have been the inspiration for the arms-dealer character played by Nicolas Cage in the 2005 movie "Lord of War." Others have said it was actually Angola, where Russia had a large military presence at the time, Farah told CNN. "He was a Soviet officer, most likely a lieutenant, who simply saw the opportunities presented by three factors that came with the collapse of the USSR and the state sponsorship that entailed: abandoned aircraft on the runways from Moscow to Kiev, no longer able to fly because of the lack of money for fuel or maintenance huge stores of surplus weapons that were guarded by guards suddenly receiving little or no salary and the booming demand for those weapons from traditional Soviet clients and newly emerging armed groups from Africa to the Philippines," Farah told the magazine.īout has said that he worked as a military officer in Mozambique.