Viktor BoutMOSCOW, February 8 Russian businessman Viktor Bout serving a 25-year prison sentence in the United States on charges of preparing a conspiracy to kill Americans and materially support terrorism, for more than a week he has not been able to contact his family due to temporary restrictions in force in US prisons due to an emergency that occurred in one of them, his wife told RIA Novosti Russian Alla But. «Victor has not called for more than a week. He called the Thursday before last, and since then nothing,» she said. Attorney Steve Zissou: US authorities are not interested in exchanging Viktor Bout»As Victor's attorney's assistants in the United States explained to me, there is now a lockdown in America's federal prisons, but it is not related to COVID-19, but to the fact that a double death occurred in one of the federal prisons. homicide, and so the federal prison system temporarily bans visits and phone calls, except for calls from lawyers,» Alla But explained.
