Japanese Yakuza leader pleads guilty to conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar
Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, a Yakuza leader, was said to have "brazenly trafficked nuclear material, including weapons-grade plutonium".
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Japanese mafia leader caught in U.S. sting pleads guilty to conspiring to traffic nuclear materials to Iran
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Feared Japanese Yakuza gang boss in ‘brazen’ NUCLEAR plot to traffic ‘weapons-grade’ plutonium & surface-to-air missiles
The plan was uncovered by a daring Drug Enformacement Administration (DEA) investigation in 2021 ... leader of an "ethnic insurgent group" in Myanmar. The attempted smuggler sent photos of ...
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Japanese Yakuza leader pleads guilty to trafficking weapons-grade plutonium for Iran
Ebisawa was snared after a years-long sting in which he was unwittingly communicating with an undercover source for the US Drug Enforcement Administration ... group” in Myanmar who had been ...
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Feared Japanese Yakuza gang boss in ‘brazen’ NUCLEAR plot to traffic ‘weapons-grade’ plutonium & surface-to-air missiles
The plan was uncovered by a daring Drug Enformacement Administration (DEA) investigation in 2021 ... This spanned Japan, Thailand, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and the US, court documents reveal.
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Takeshi Ebisawa was found guilty of transporting lethal materials from Myanmar as part of a ... was conducted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 2021. A US agent disguised ...