The head of a Japanese crime group tried to sell plutonium and uranium from Myanmar to undercover DEA agents. The agents pretended to be buying it on behalf of Iran. Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, proposed to the leader of an unidentified “ethnic insurgent group” in Myanmar to sell nuclear material to an Iranian general through him. The plan was to then use the money to buy weapons from the general, including surface-to-air missiles. The yakuza boss even showed samples of the nuclear Material to one of the agents in a hotel room in Thailand.
Source: Written by Lieth Carrillo, 2024-02-27; https://www.occrp.org/en/daily//en/daily/18503-japanese-yakuza-leader-charged-with-trafficking-nuclear-material-from-myanmar