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

and it’s unlikely Takeshi Ebisawa will ever leave prison. It’s hard to pick the most damning evidence on display in the Department of Justice’s court filings. There’s an undercover agent ...

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 ...

Takeshi Ebisawa admitted at his plea that he ‘brazenly trafficked’ material including weapons-grade plutonium out of Myanmar.

Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, of Japan, entered the plea in Manhattan federal court to weapons and narcotics trafficking charges that carry a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and the possibility of ...

During an undercover investigation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 2021, Takeshi Ebisawa tried to sell the materials – including uranium and weapons-grade plutonium – to ...

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.

Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, of Japan entered his guilty plea Wednesday in a Manhattan courtroom to six federal conspiracy and trafficking counts, for which he now faces decades in prison when sentenced.

Takeshi Ebisawa "brazenly trafficked nuclear material, including weapons-grade plutonium," acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York Edward Y Kim said. "At the same time ...

A man who federal prosecutors say runs a notorious Japanese organized crime syndicate pleaded guilty last week to conspiring to traffic nuclear materials to Iran and U.S. weapons abandoned in ...