A Japanese crime syndicate leader has pleaded guilty to charges of trafficking uranium and plutonium from Myanmar, believing it would be used by Iran for nuclear weapons. The suspect, Takeshi Ebisawa, was unaware he was communicating with a DEA informant posing as an Iranian general.
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Prosecutors say Ebisawa didn’t know he was communicating in 2021 and 2022 with a confidential source for the Drug Enforcement Administration along with the source’s associate, who posed as an Iranian general.DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said in a release that the prosecution demonstrated the DEA’s “unparalleled ability to dismantle the world’s most dangerous criminal networks.”
“At the same time, he worked to send massive quantities of heroin and methamphetamine to the United States in exchange for heavy-duty weaponry such as surface-to-air missiles to be used on battlefields in Burma,” he added.
JAPANESE CRIME NUCLEAR TRAFFICKING IRAN DEA GUILTY PLEA
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