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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Japanese Yakuza mob boss Takeshi Ebisawa pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to traffic nuclear materials to Iran among other charges.

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 ...

A member of the Japanese yakuza criminal underworld pleaded guilty to handling nuclear material sourced from Myanmar and seeking to sell it to fund an illicit arms deal, US authorities said Wednesday.

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 ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Takeshi Ebisawa ... The Department of Justice (DOJ) referred Ebisawa as a Yakuza leader. They described the Yakuza as a 300-year-old Japanese crime syndicate involved ...

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 ...

A Japanese Yakuza leader has pleaded guilty to attempting to traffic weapons-grade plutonium for Iran’s nuclear weapons programme. Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, faces life in prison after entering the ...