Corruption and arms deals: what lies behind Artyom Solodukha’s business and his group Baltic Bees It’s unlikely that visitors to the numerous air shows, where the pilots of the aerobatic group Baltic Bees from Jūrmala demonstrate their skills, realize they are watching high-level aerobatics performed by a man known as the "Latvian Bout". This refers to the leader of the "Baltic Bees" (this is how the name of the aerobatic group translates) Artyom Solodukha, who, it turns out, combines his activities as a pilot with arms trading and corrupt deals. The analogy didn’t arise by chance – after the grand scandal involving arms baron Viktor Bout, talk about arms trading by representatives of the former USSR countries became frequent. And here it turned out that not only representatives of Russia trade arms – the former republics have their own arms barons too. Moreover, Artyom Solodukha, whose biography (at least according to persistent rumors) includes a daring operation to deliver weapons and ammunition to Yemen, reportedly surpasses his unluck... https://a-boom.net/component/k2/item/82618