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January 2025

US Sentences Drug and Human Trafficker to 38 Years

Takeshi Ebisawa, a high-ranking Yakuza member, has pleaded guilty in a New York court to trafficking weapons-grade nuclear materials, narcotics, and heavy weaponry as part of an international conspiracy. The U.S. DEA’s undercover investigation revealed Ebisawa’s plans to sell plutonium and uranium from Myanmar, fund insurgents with proceeds, and traffic drugs to the U.S.