BANGKOK — Viktor Bout, a Russian businessman who is expected to face gun-running charges in the United States after his extradition from Thailand, expressed confidence Friday that he would be exonerated.

“We will go to court in America and we will win,” Bout told a reporter from Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency after a Thai court ordered the extradition.

Bout, who inspired the movie “Lord of War,” starring Nicolas Cage, is suspected of running a large-scale trafficking organization that provided weapons to governments, rebels and insurgents across the globe.