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Japanese crime boss busted for attempting to traffic nuke materials to Iran: feds
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February 22, 2024
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1:07Now PlayingA leader of a Japan-based crime syndicate conspired to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in the belief that Iran would use it to make nuclear weapons, U.S. prosecutors alleged Wednesday.
Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, and his confederates showed samples of nuclear materials that had been transported from Myanmar to Thailand to an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent posing as a narcotics and weapons trafficker who had access to an Iranian general, according to federal officials.
The nuclear material was seized and samples were later found to contain uranium and weapons-grade plutonium.
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