As Japan’s yakuza weakens, police focus ... - Associated Press News
WEBMay 18, 2024 · Police in Japan who were busy tracking thousands of yakuza members just a few years ago have set their eyes on a new threat: unorganized and loosely connected groups they believe are behind a series of crimes once dominated by yakuza.
'Yakuza Boss' Charged With Attempt to Sell Nuclear Materials
WEBFeb 22, 2024 · Japanese ‘Yakuza Boss’ Charged With Attempting to Sell Nuclear Materials from Myanmar. Takeshi Ebisawa poses with a rocket launcher during a meeting with an informant and two undercover Danish ...
Alleged yakuza leader charged with attempting to sell nuclear ... - CNN
WEBFeb 22, 2024 · CNN — An alleged leader of a Japanese organized crime syndicate has been charged with attempting to sell weapons-grade nuclear materials from the leader of an ethnic insurgent group in Myanmar,...
Feds charge Japanese Yakuza leader with nuclear materials …
WEBFeb 21, 2024 · NBC News. Federal prosecutors in New York on Wednesday said they charged a Japanese Yakuza leader with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Burma to other countries in the belief that...
Japanese yakuza mobster sentenced to death - BBC News
WEBAug 24, 2021 · A court in south-western Japan has sentenced the head of a powerful crime syndicate to death by hanging. The court in the city of Fukuoka found that Nomura Satoru, aged 74, had ordered four ...
Japanese yakuza mobster sentenced to death - BBC
WEBAug 24, 2021 · A court in south-western Japan has sentenced the head of a powerful crime syndicate to death by hanging. The court in the city of Fukuoka found that Nomura Satoru, aged 74, had ordered four ...
Yakuza boss charged with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials - ABC News
WEBFeb 21, 2024 · The Justice Department unsealed new charges against a leader of the notorious Japanese Yakuza gang who they accuse of attempting to traffic weapons-grade nuclear materials from Burma to other countries, according to a newly announced superseding indictment.
US prosecutors say alleged yakuza boss planned to sell missiles to ...
WEBApr 8, 2022 · Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Takeshi Ebisawa, who they described as a leader in a network of Japanese crime families known as yakuza, and a co-conspirator agreed to buy the missiles...
Japan appeals court commutes death sentence for yakuza boss to …
WEBMar 12, 2024 · The 77-year-old boss of a major yakuza crime syndicate was sentenced to life in prison by a Japanese high court on Tuesday, overturning a lower court decision that had imposed the death penalty on charges related to four attacks, including murder.
The trial of a yakuza boss ends with a death sentence … and a threat
WEBSatoru Nomura, 74, thusly harangued Fukuoka District Court presiding Judge Ben Adachi on Aug. 24, after receiving the death sentence for his involvement in the February 1998 murder by shooting of...
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