19: Part 1: Rob 'Zach' Zachariasiewicz and the Hunt for Viktor Bout - The Merchant of Death
Game of Crimes
Game of Crimes
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🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Six million deaths from arms supplied for low-intensity conflicts, and the world still didn't know who Viktor Bout was. But the United States, Great Britain and Interpol knew. After several unsuccessful attempts to capture Viktor, the DEA was given a unique challenge. Could they do what everyone else had failed to do and capture the world's most wanted arms dealer? Rob 'Zach' Zachariasiewicz and his team said 'can do'. This is the story of Operation Relentless - the plan to capture The Merchant of Death.
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| 0:00.0 | This week, Rob Zach and his team at DEA go after Victor Booth, the merchant of death. |
| 0:17.6 | He's already a one-adman, at least in one country. |
| 0:20.8 | He was, but then the question is, do the folks that have a lot still want to enforce it? |
| 0:25.5 | Will they actually prosecute him? |
| 0:26.9 | So a red notice for lack of a better term is like an international arrest warrant. |
| 0:31.3 | You're basically putting the rest of the world on notice, and there's a couple of different |
| 0:35.0 | ways to do it. |
| 0:36.0 | You can have a red notice that goes out, blanket to everybody, or you can do what's called |
| 0:40.4 | a diffusion, which is much more country-specific. |
| 0:43.1 | So instead of telling the whole world, you might know, let's say you had intel that someone |
| 0:47.4 | was going to travel to a specific country. |
| 0:49.0 | You might only want to deal with one country to take away the risk, compromise. |
| 0:55.4 | They're inadvertent. |
| 0:56.4 | Everybody trying to do good, maybe people jump something, or, you know, on the bad side, |
| 1:01.4 | you might have places where these bad guys had infiltrated authorities. |
| 1:06.6 | That's what they do. |
| 1:07.6 | They corrupt countries that they go to so that they're protected. |
| 1:11.2 | Welcome to Game of Crimes. |
| 1:25.4 | Hey, everybody. |
| 1:32.2 | Welcome back. |
| 1:33.2 | This is Animal Control Week. |
| 1:34.7 | Well, well, first of all, welcome back to Game of Crimes. |
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