Alleged Japanese Crime Boss Accused of Trafficking Nuclear Material

FILE - Takeshi Ebisawa is pictured with a rocket launcher during a meeting with an informant and two undercover Danish police officers at a warehouse in Copenhagen, Feb. 3, 2021, in a photo from a Drug Enforcement Administration criminal complaint.

A leader of a Japan-based crime syndicate conspired to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in the belief that Iran would use it to make nuclear weapons, U.S. prosecutors alleged Wednesday.