9. ANALISIS POLA PENYELUNDUPAN SENJATA ILEGAL: STUDI KASUS POLA PENYELUNDUPAN SENJATA OLEH VIKTOR BOUT DI ANGOLA DAN LIBERIA TAHUN 1990-1998

Abstract

The notorious Viktor Bout, the most influenced person in the illegal arms smuggling has
huge reputation in supplying illegal arms to the conflicted countries. With his offshore
companies and his wide-scale network in arms business he supplied small arms and light
weapon (SA/LW) freely without any suspicion of violated the arms embargoes. Liberia
and Angola were countries which clearly cooperated with Viktor Bout to illegally sell
arms with the high intensity. Using the method of library research, arms trafficking
concept, and refer to the previous research also with the comparison method in the pattern
used by Bout in both countries, this research concludes that there is opposite pattern in
arms smuggling between Liberia and Angola by Bout. In his operation in Liberia, Bout
used the pattern of government assisted-trade which he used to cooperate with local
government to illegally break arms embargo and smuggle arms. In Angola, he used the
pattern of company brokered-trade which allowed him to utilize his companies and
cooperation network to help him smuggled arms to both government and rebel group in
Angola.