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US Charges Yakuza Leader Over Conspiring to Sell Nuclear Material from Myanmar (www.irrawaddy.com)
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US authorities said Wednesday 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.

The indictment claims Ebisawa had suggested using the proceeds of the sale of nuclear material to fund weapons purchases on behalf of an unnamed ethnic insurgent group in Myanmar.

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[–] Salph@infosec.pub 3 points 9 months ago

Lmao this even claims that Iran is involved (doubt).

Still, that's US, Japan, Myanmar and Iran involved in this. What is this, a party?