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Japanese Yakuza Boss Gets 20 Years for Selling Plutonium to Fake Iranian General

March 5, 2026·20 days ago·via Townhall
Japanese Yakuza Boss Gets 20 Years for Selling Plutonium to Fake Iranian General
A Japanese Yakuza leader, Takeshi Ebisawa, just got slapped with a 20-year prison sentence in a New York federal court for conspiring to traffic weapons-grade plutonium and uranium from Burma, aiming to sell it to what he thought was an Iranian general - but it was a DEA sting. Ebisawa, 61, pleaded guilty to six counts including nuclear material trafficking, international narcotics like heroin and meth flooding U.S. streets, weapons smuggling, and money laundering to arm Myanmar insurgents. U.S. Read more about this...

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