U.S. charges Japanese mob boss with selling nuclear material to Iran
MANHATTAN, NY – Takeshi Ebisawa, a reputed leader of the Japanese Yakuza, is facing charges from U.S. authorities for allegedly orchestrating a scheme to smuggle nuclear materials from Southeast Asia to Iran. The charges detail that Ebisawa presented samples of the nuclear materials to an undercover agent from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), who was posing as a drug and arms trafficker with links to Iran. These materials, believed to have been smuggled from Myanmar …