Russian businessman Viktor Bout, awaiting extradition to the United States on arms trafficking charges, said Friday he knows no Russian state military secrets.
"I am not in possession of any Russian state military secrets... I have never worked either with Russian companies or state agencies," Bout said in a statement his wife, Alla, read at a press conference in Bangkok.
Bout, ordered by the Thai appeals court on August 20 to be extradited to the United States, said he had never been involved in the arms trade and that there was no evidence of his involvement in the arms business.
"The United States is building an image of me as an underground billionaire and arms merchant. I have never traded in arms," Bout said.
BANGKOK, August 27 (RIA Novosti)