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New York City, US, Feb 21 (EFE).- The United States on Wednesday charged a leader of the Japanese organized crime syndicate Yakuza with conspiring to traffic nuclear material from Myanmar to other countries, including Iran, knowing fully well that the material was going to be used in the development of a nuclear weapons program. Takeshi …
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,.
Takeshi Ebisawa, a Japanese yakuza leader, has been charged with attempting to sell weapons-grade nuclear materials to an ethnic insurgent group in Myanmar after he was arrested in 2022 for drug and.