An alleged leader from Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicates has pleaded ... the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 2021, Takeshi Ebisawa tried to sell the materials – including uranium ...

Takeshi Ebisawa posing with a rocket launcher during a meeting with two undercover agents from the Denmark Police (left) and a photo allegedly sent by Ebisawa showing plutonium with a Geiger ...

A Japanese Yakuza leader pleaded guilty in federal ... and it’s unlikely Takeshi Ebisawa will ever leave prison. It’s hard to pick the most damning evidence on display in the Department ...

A leader of Japan's Yakuza crime syndicate who tried to sell Iran weapons-grade plutonium has pleaded guilty to charges of trafficking narcotics, weapons and nuclear material. Takeshi Ebisawa, 60 ...

The alleged boss of the Japanese Yakuza has pleaded guilty to conspiring to traffic uranium and weapons-grade plutonium to an informant posing as an Iranian general. Takeshi Ebisawa, 60 ...

known as Yakuza, pleaded guilty Wednesday in New York to conspiring to traffic in weapons-grade nuclear material in Asia, the Justice Department said. Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, also pleaded guilty to ...

A man who federal prosecutors say runs a notorious Japanese organized crime syndicate pleaded guilty last week to conspiring to traffic nuclear materials to Iran and U.S. weapons abandoned in ...

A Japanese Yakuza leader has pleaded guilty in the US to conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar. Takeshi Ebisawa "brazenly trafficked nuclear material, including weapons-grade ...

Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, of Japan ... said Ebisawa — who U.S. prosecutors say is a leader of Japan's notorious Yakuza mafia — told the DEA's confidential source in 2020 that he had access to ...

Yakuza leader Takeshi Ebisawa and co-defendant Somphop Singhasiri had previously been charged in April 2022 with drug trafficking and firearms offenses, and both were remanded.