Feds charge Japanese Yakuza leader with nuclear materials trafficking

[mountaineer]

Feds charge Japanese Yakuza leader with nuclear materials trafficking
Wed, Feb 21 2024
Dan Mangan
CNBC

Key Points

   * Federal prosecutors in New York said they charged a Japanese Yakuza leader with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Burma to other countries.
   * Prosecutors said the accused gangster, Takeshi Ebisawa, “and his confederates showed samples of nuclear materials in Thailand” to an undercover agent from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
   * “A U.S. nuclear forensic laboratory later analyzed the samples and confirmed that the samples contain uranium and weapons-grade plutonium,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan said.

Federal prosecutors in New York on Wednesday said they charged a Japanese Yakuza leader with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Burma to other countries in the belief that they would be used by Iran to make a nuclear weapon.

The accused gangster, Takeshi Ebisawa, “and his confederates showed samples of nuclear materials in Thailand” to an undercover agent from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration who was posing as a narcotics and weapons trafficker with access to an Iranian general, prosecutors said. ...

[mountaineer]

Japanese crime boss busted for attempting to traffic nuke materials to Iran: feds
By Associated Press   
Published Feb. 22, 2024, 9:17 a.m. ET

A leader of a Japan-based crime syndicate conspired to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in the belief that Iran would use it to make nuclear weapons, U.S. prosecutors alleged Wednesday.

Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, and his confederates showed samples of nuclear materials that had been transported from Myanmar to Thailand to an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent posing as a narcotics and weapons trafficker who had access to an Iranian general, according to federal officials.

The nuclear material was seized and samples were later found to contain uranium and weapons-grade plutonium. ...

New York Post

[DefiantMassRINO]

Who else is willing to sell nuclear grade materials to Iran?

Maybe Israel and the US should do something before Iran has usable nukes.  Do we really want a repeat of the whole North Korea getting nukes fiasco?

 

It's nice to see the Yakuza embracing Globalism and business diversification.