The DOJ further said the accused, Takeshi Ebisawa, is a leader within the Yakuza transnational organized ... were previously charged in April 2022 with international narcotics trafficking and ...

9 (UPI) --A leader of Japan's Yakuza crime syndicate who tried to ... The development comes more than two years after Ebisawa was arrested and initially charged with drug and weapons trafficking ...

According to the department, Ebisawa is a "yakuza leader" who has a criminal network spanning Japan, Thailand and Sri Lanka, among other countries. He was arrested in April 2022 after approaching ...

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

followed by Ebisawa responding, “Yes.” Then there’s audio of the Yakuza boss discussing nuclear weapons-grade material sales with an undercover agent he believed was a general in the Iranian ...

The alleged boss of the Japanese Yakuza has pleaded guilty to conspiring to traffic uranium and weapons-grade plutonium to an informant posing as an Iranian general. Takeshi Ebisawa, 60 ...

A FEARED Japanese gang boss was plotting to traffic ... web of illegal activity. The feared Yakuza crime leader now faces decades in prison after being charged in February 2024.

The Yakuza member Takeshi Ebisawa also pleaded guilty to international narcotics trafficking and weapons charges, according to the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Yakuza leader Takeshi Ebisawa and co-defendant Somphop Singhasiri had previously been charged in April 2022 with drug trafficking and firearms offenses, and both were remanded. He was then ...

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 ...