19: Part 2: Rob 'Zach' Zachariasiewicz and the Hunt for Viktor Bout - The Merchant of Death
Game of Crimes
Game of Crimes
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🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
**SPECIAL SURPRISE AT THE END***
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 | In this episode, Zach talks about the difficulties in setting up a meeting with Victor Boot, the |
| 0:18.0 | merchant of death. |
| 0:19.0 | It was just like really delicate dance going back and forth like, why can't you come here? |
| 0:22.4 | I told you, I am not getting a Russian stamp on my past, why can't you come here? |
| 0:25.9 | Well, I'm not sure it's really good for me there. |
| 0:28.5 | Obviously, you've read about me, I have to be careful where I'm at. |
| 0:31.3 | So there's this back and forth, but then at the end, we just realized he wasn't coming. |
| 0:36.6 | So we gave him the order to walk away. |
| 0:38.8 | And we all fought internally about that. |
| 0:40.5 | If it was time, if it wasn't time, just said like, listen, this is going to happen, but |
| 0:45.9 | we can't be afraid to walk away. |
| 0:47.4 | Vag guys walk away from deals all the time. |
| 0:49.8 | We'll actually, we'll look less like cops if we walk away. |
| 0:53.7 | When you keep pushing too hard through danger, when everybody knows you shouldn't do it, |
| 0:57.5 | you really start to look like a cop, so we're like, we should be the ones to say, screw |
| 1:02.3 | this route, because we'll look more righteous that way, and that's ultimately after 17 days |
| 1:07.8 | what we did. |
| 1:08.8 | Welcome to Game of Crimes. |
| 1:28.1 | But that's typical special forces attitude. |
| 1:30.0 | It's like, I can do this. |
| 1:32.0 | And so it got quiet again. |
| 1:33.7 | I looked at him for a second. |
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