{"id":62083,"date":"2024-02-22T13:41:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T04:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/22\/takeshi-ebisawa-japan-crime-boss-nuclear-material-trafficking-allegations"},"modified":"2024-02-22T13:41:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T04:41:40","slug":"boss-of-japan-crime-syndicate-conspired-to-traffic-nuclear-material-say-us-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62083","title":{"rendered":"Boss of Japan crime syndicate conspired to traffic nuclear material, say US prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Takeshi Ebisawa is being charged over a conspiracy to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar, believing Iran would use it to make weapons<\/p>\n<p>The head of a Japanese crime syndicate conspired to traffic uranium and plutonium in the belief that Iran would use it to make nuclear weapons, US prosecutors have alleged.<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials said Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, and others showed samples of nuclear materials that had been transported from Myanmar to Thailand to an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA] agent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/22\/takeshi-ebisawa-japan-crime-boss-nuclear-material-trafficking-allegations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takeshi Ebisawa is being charged over a conspiracy to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar, believing Iran would use it to make weaponsThe head of a Japanese crime syndicate conspired to traffic uranium and plutonium in the belief that Iran would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62084,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62083\/revisions\/62084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}