U.S. court convicts Japanese mafia leader for conspiring to traffic nuclear material to Iran

A member of Japan’s yakuza crime group was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a New York court on Tuesday after being convicted of trafficking nuclear material as well as drugs and weapons. Takeshi Ebisawa, 61, has been jailed since April 2022 on the drug and weapons charges, along with his Thai co-defendant Somphop … Read more