{"id":68386,"date":"2026-03-07T09:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/a-japanese-conman-tried-to-sell-an-undercover-dea-agent-nuclear-materials-but-how-did-he-get-them\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T14:55:28","slug":"a-japanese-conman-tried-to-sell-an-undercover-dea-agent-nuclear-materials-but-how-did-he-get-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/a-japanese-conman-tried-to-sell-an-undercover-dea-agent-nuclear-materials-but-how-did-he-get-them\/","title":{"rendered":"A Japanese \u2018conman\u2019 tried to sell an undercover DEA agent nuclear materials \u2013 but how did he get them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Takeshi Ebisawa, sentenced to 20 years in prison last week, believed he was selling weapons-grade plutonium to Iran<\/p>\n<p>A plot to supply Iran\u2019s nuclear weapons program, heroin from the Golden Triangle, Burmese ethnic insurgents and rocket launchers were the subject in courtroom 24A in New York\u2019s federal courthouse last week when a man described as a leader in Japan\u2019s Yakuza organized crime syndicate was sentenced to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The transnational plot, which the US Drug Enforcement Administration had been investigating since 2019, involved Japanese organised crime leader Takeshi Ebisawa, who along with three Thai men, had been arrested in New York in 2022.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/07\/japanese-conman-convicted-drug-nuclear-weapons\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takeshi Ebisawa, sentenced to 20 years in prison last week, believed he was selling weapons-grade plutonium to Iran A plot to supply Iran\u2019s nuclear weapons program, heroin from the Golden Triangle, Burmese ethnic insurgents and rocket launchers were the subject in courtroom 24A in New York\u2019s federal courthouse last week when a man described as &#8230; <a title=\"A Japanese \u2018conman\u2019 tried to sell an undercover DEA agent nuclear materials \u2013 but how did he get them?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/a-japanese-conman-tried-to-sell-an-undercover-dea-agent-nuclear-materials-but-how-did-he-get-them\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Japanese \u2018conman\u2019 tried to sell an undercover DEA agent nuclear materials \u2013 but how did he get them?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}