Nuclear Materials Trafficking Charges Against Japanese Yakuz

[farmgirl]

www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-nuclear-materials-trafficking-charges-against-japanese-yakuza

U.S. Attorney Announces Nuclear Materials Trafficking Charges Against Japanese Yakuza Leader

[ohiodreamer]

Well, isn't that just lovely!

[Ozarks Tom]

Did I miss it? I never saw the source of the nuclear materials mentioned, or the supposed end buyers. I'm guessing North Korea as the source, but who's buying?

[farmrbrown]

Feb 22, 2024 1:31:35 GMT Ozarks Tom said:

Did I miss it? I never saw the source of the nuclear materials mentioned, or the supposed end buyers. I'm guessing North Korea as the source, but who's buying?

That was the part that got my attention, because this was KNOWN back in 2020, BEFORE Biden took office and
re-instated the Iran nuke deal, remember?

DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said: “As alleged, the defendants in this case trafficked in drugs, weapons, and nuclear material — going so far as to offer uranium and weapons-grade plutonium fully expecting that Iran would use it for nuclear weapons.  This is an extraordinary example of the depravity of drug traffickers who operate with total disregard for human life. I commend the men and women of DEA and this prosecution team for their tireless work to protect us from such evil.”

According to the allegations contained in the Superseding Indictment, which was unsealed today in Manhattan federal court:[1]

Beginning in early 2020, EBISAWA informed UC-1 and a DEA confidential source (“CS-1”) that EBISAWA had access to a large quantity of nuclear materials that he wanted to sell.  Later that year, EBISAWA sent UC-1 a series of photographs depicting rocky substances with Geiger counters measuring radiation, as well as pages of what EBISAWA represented to be lab analyses indicating the presence of thorium and uranium in the depicted substances. In response to EBISAWA’s repeated inquiries, UC-1 agreed, as part of the DEA’s investigation, to help EBISAWA broker the sale of his nuclear materials to UC-1’s associate, who was posing as an Iranian general (the “General”), for use in a nuclear weapons program. EBISAWA then offered to supply the General with “plutonium” that would be even “better” and more “powerful” than uranium for this purpose.