Crime

US charges Japanese yakuza leader over alleged bid to sell nuclear material

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US authorities said on February 21, 2024, that they had charged a member of the Japanese yakuza criminal underworld with handling nuclear material sourced from Myanmar and seeking to sell it to fund an illicit arms deal. Among those implicated was yakuza leader Takeshi Ebisawa and co-defendant Somphop Singhasiri.
 

February 22, 2024