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Story summary
- Takeshi Ebisawa, a leader in Japan's Yakuza, received a 20-year sentence for a transnational plot involving nuclear materials.
- He pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges related to trafficking uranium and weapons-grade plutonium from Myanmar.
- He attempted to sell the materials to an undercover DEA agent posing as an Iranian general.
- Prosecutors warned of an existential threat, noting plans to supply heroin and weapons to insurgent groups.
