The DOJ further said the accused, Takeshi Ebisawa, is a leader within the Yakuza transnational organized crime syndicate. He and his co-defendant, also a Japanese national, allegedly trafficked ...

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 ...

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.

The Yakuza member Takeshi Ebisawa also pleaded guilty to international narcotics trafficking and weapons charges, according to the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office. A Japanese Yakuza leader ...

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 ...

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. He was then ...

“As he admitted in court today, Takeshi Ebisawa brazenly trafficked ... which referred to Ebisawa as a leader in the Yakuza, the infamous network of Japanese crime families.