Japanese yakuza leader pleads guilty to trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar

[Starmix]

US authorities charged Takeshi Ebisawa with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar for expected use by Iran in nuclear weapons .Takeshi is a member of the Japanese criminal underworld . He has pleaded guilty to handling nuclear material sourced from Myanmar with an intention to sell them to fund an illicit arm deal. This Yakuza leader has been charged together with his a co-defendant i April 2022 for the same offenses drug trafficking and firearm offenses. They were both reprimanded.

He was additionally charged in February 2024 for conspiring to sell weapons-grade nuclear material and lethal narcotics from Myanmar, and he purchased these for the insurgent groups. Part of this deal was military weaponry like missiles. Takeshi Ebisawa brazenly trafficked nuclear material, including weapons-grade plutonium, out of Burma and he sed another name to avoid getting caught.

Ebisawa also trafficked massive quantities of heroin and methamphetamine to the United States in exchange for heavy-duty weaponry such as surface-to-air missiles to be used on battlefields in Burma.” Ebisawa faces up to 20 years’ imprisonment for the trafficking of nuclear materials internationally.


Report source : The Guardian

 

[Augusta]

Ebisawa faces up to 20 years’ imprisonment for the trafficking of nuclear materials internationally. I hope he would be punished accordingly for this

 

[Starmix]

He is now detained and is being sentenced by the criminal court to 20 years imprisonment. It seems like a life sentence considering his age. It said that was never remorseful of his criminal acts.