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The U.S. Justice Department has charged an alleged Japanese Yakuza crime boss with attempting to traffic weapons-grade nuclear material. The leader was caught in Thailand trying to sell 50 tons of uranium and plutonium to an undercover agent posing as part of Iran's nuclear weapons program. The suspect was arraigned in a Manhattan federal court on charges of selling nuclear materials to Iran.
U.S. authorities said they had charged a member of the Japanese yakuza criminal underworld with handling nuclear material sourced from Myanmar and seeking to sell it to fund an illicit arms deal. https://t.co/hDZAYvMMqU
The indictment said the supposed Iranian contact was to supply the rebel group with a cache of surface-to-air missiles, among other weapons, in exchange for the nuclear materials. https://t.co/nFdSGs3EHy
The suspect is charged with working with an Iranian contact — who turned out to be an undercover agent with the Drug Enforcement Agency — to offer uranium and weapons-grade plutonium to the Iranian regime. https://t.co/nFdSGs36S0