Russian businessman Victor Bout was sentenced back on April, 5th for 25 years in prison. That day his attorney Mr. Dayan set a plan to appeal the verdict.

A.D.: I want to let you know that for Victor Bout this is not the end, that the journey is just beginning, that only now everyone's position is clear. We intend to appeal his conviction. He received the sentence of 25 years which was the minimum that he was able to receive.

Earlier this week Albert Dayan did submit an appeal to the court, but not regarding his conviction rather the location of where B will be spending his sentence. The US Bureau of Prisons has ordered VB to serve his 25 years' sentence in a prison in the North West. But it isn't just any prison, it's a supermax prison in Colorado.

The facility is notorious both for its security and criminals that it contains. Back at 2009 SBC news dedicated a segment on supermax for their 60 minutes' program.

The secretive insulation in Colorado with more than 40 terrorists that already locked away. The government doesn't say much about this place called the US Penitentiary Administrative Maximum also known as Supermax.

It's a sort of 21 century Alcatraz where convicted al-Qaeda terrorists are and some guards are worried about their own safety. Supermax is the place America sends it wants to punish the most.

In the list, number of criminals who currently are serving the life sentence is overwhelming. Ratzi Yousef who was responsible for the 1994 World Trade Center bombings, then there's Zacarias Moussaoui who was convicted in 2005 for playing a lead role in 9/11 attacks.

imothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the two men who conspired the Oklahoma City bombings were both in the Supermax until McVeigh was given the death penalty. All of these dangerous men, over 400 of them, are detained in this Supermax facility.

And VB may soon join them. Bout's attourney is hoping to fight the Bureau of Prisons' decision. Dayan told Voice of Russian on Thursday that Bout is a businessman and never killed or intended to kill anyone.

A.D.: First of all, Bout is innocent of these charges. And everybody who presided over the trial knows that. So in my opinion he doesn't deserve to be in any type of the correctional facility.

And this type of the correctional facility is designated for those who have made the actual threat to citizens of the US. Everyone involved in this case knows that Mr. Bout never had any intentions of harming any US citizens.

Bout is detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, NY where he is currently in general population after being released from solitary confinement by court order. Dayan said that Bout could be transferred as early as Tuesday.

He has submitted a letter to the judge asking her to recommend that Bout remain in NY. However federal judge has little jurisdiction as to where the Bureau of Prisons sends their inmates.

If Bout is sent to Supermax in Florence, Colorado, he will be one of the few that have never killed an American citizen.

Voice of Russia