Justice Department charges Japanese crime boss of trafficking nuclear material from Myanmar

The World

The US Justice Department has indicted a member of the Japanese Yakuza crime syndicate for attempting to sell weapons-grade nuclear materials. Takeshi Ebisawa allegedly showed samples of nuclear materials that had been transported from Myanmar to Thailand to an undercover US Drug Enforcement Administration agent. Host Marco Werman speaks with Martina Baradel, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford in the UK who focuses in Japanese organized crime.

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