MOSCOW, July 4 - RAPSI. Alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout's wife has not yet presented the Justice Ministry with the documents needed to submit an extradition request on her husband's behalf.

Bout was earlier sentenced to 25 years in prison in the United States.

On Wednesday, his wife Alla Bout was reported to have submitted to the Justice Ministry a corresponding resolution, so that its employees could send an extradition request to their U.S. colleagues. However, she told the Russian Legal Information Agency that the documents have not yet been filed with the ministry.
"We have only prepared the basic package of documents," Alla Bout said.

Last Friday, Alla Bout reported at a RIA Novosti news conference that the ministry had asked her to prepare an inquiry for her husband's extradition. The examination into the issue of Bout's return home will only begin as soon as the appeals proceedings into the case are over.

Bout was sentenced to 25 years in prison by the New York Federal Court for planning to sell arms to the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces. He has denied the charges against him.