No doubt Victor Bout has a loving and loyal wife. All she told The Times is her own version of his business life and an expression of her affection to him.
The most interesting news in this article is that the Thai authorities "dropped charges against him last week" but they still want to hand him over to the American justice. Russian media wrote about Bout's connections to the Russian military intelligence and his association with high Kremlin bosses, Igor Sechin in particular. It seems very likely that Victor Bout's arrest in Bangkok wasn't a "detached" event but the result of an "underground" fight in the Russian military and intelligence establishment.
