A FEARED Japanese gang boss was plotting to traffic plutonium ... as part of a global web of illegal activity. The feared Yakuza crime leader now faces decades in prison after being charged ...

FUKUOKA—The Fukuoka High Court commuted a death sentence for a yakuza gang leader to life imprisonment after acquitting him of a murder charge but holding him guilty in three attempted murders ...

An alleged leader from Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicates has pleaded guilty to trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar as part of a global web of trades in drugs, weapons and laundered cash ...

An alleged leader from Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicates has pleaded guilty to trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar as part of a global web of trades in drugs, weapons and laundered cash, ...

A leader from Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicate has admitted to ‘brazenly’ trafficking nuclear material from Myanmar to be used by Iran. Takeshi Ebisawa was captured during an undercover ...

In February 2024, U.S. authorities charged the Japanese “yakuza” crime leader with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar for expected use by Iran in nuclear weapons. He was also ...

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

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 Japanese Yakuza leader has pleaded guilty to attempting to traffic weapons-grade plutonium for Iran’s nuclear weapons programme. Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, faces life in prison after entering the ...