Japanese Yakuza Leader Charged with Trafficking Nuclear Materials to Iran
TL;DR
Takeshi Ebisawa, an alleged leader of the yakuza, has been charged with attempting to sell weapons-grade nuclear materials from an insurgent group in Myanmar to someone he believed was an Iranian general, in exchange for a significant weapons cache. According to the US Justice Department, Ebisawa sent pictures and lab analyses indicating the presence of radioactive elements, and an undercover DEA agent allegedly agreed to help him sell the material. Thai law enforcement recovered nuclear samples previously shown to the agent by brokers and transferred them to US authorities, where a nuclear forensic lab found that they contained uranium, thorium, and weapons-grade plutonium.
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- Alleged yakuza leader charged with attempting to sell nuclear materials from Myanmar CNN
- U.S. Attorney Announces Nuclear Materials Trafficking Charges Against Japanese Yakuza Leader Department of Justice
- Japanese yakuza accused of trying to sell uranium, plutonium to Iran The Washington Post
- Feds charge Japanese Yakuza leader with nuclear materials trafficking CNBC
- Japanese crime boss charged by US prosecutors in conspiracy to traffic nuclear material to Iran Fox News
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