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Japanese National Sentenced to 20 Years for Trying to Sell Weapons-Grade Plutonium to Iran and Flood New York with Drugs

NEW YORK – A Japanese national was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in federal prison for conspiring to traffic nuclear materials – including weapons-grade plutonium – from Burma to other countries, while simultaneously attempting to sell hundreds of kilograms of heroin and methamphetamine for distribution on the streets of New York, federal prosecutors announced.

Takeshi Ebisawa, 61, previously pleaded guilty to six counts before U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in the Southern District of New York. The sentence also includes five years of supervised release.

According to court documents and evidence presented during the investigation, Ebisawa led an international criminal network spanning Japan, Thailand, Burma, Sri Lanka, and the United States. Between 2019 and his arrest in April 2022, the Drug Enforcement Administration conducted an undercover operation in which Ebisawa unwittingly negotiated four separate criminal transactions with a DEA agent posing as a narcotics and weapons trafficker.

In the most alarming transaction, Ebisawa attempted to broker the sale of nuclear materials – initially uranium, then plutonium – to an undercover agent’s associate posing as an Iranian general in charge of Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Ebisawa boasted that plutonium would be even “better” and more “powerful” than uranium for Iran’s use.

In February 2022, Ebisawa and two co-conspirators met the undercover agent in Thailand, where they showed samples of the nuclear materials. Thai authorities seized the samples and transferred them to U.S. law enforcement. A U.S. nuclear forensic laboratory determined the samples contained detectable quantities of uranium, thorium, and weapons-grade plutonium.

Ebisawa sought in exchange to obtain military-grade weapons – including surface-to-air missiles – for an ethnic insurgent group in Burma.

Separately, Ebisawa conspired to sell 500 kilograms of methamphetamine and 500 kilograms of heroin to the undercover agent, intending the drugs to be distributed in New York. In June and September 2021, a co-conspirator provided samples in Thailand: approximately one kilogram of methamphetamine with 98% purity and 1.4 kilograms of heroin with 86-87% purity.

Ebisawa also laundered $100,000 in purported narcotics proceeds from the United States to Japan, taking a 15% commission.

“National security and public safety are the very tenets of DEA’s mission, and this case demonstrates our ability to dismantle the world’s most dangerous criminal networks,” said DEA Administrator Terrance Cole. “Today’s sentence should send a clear message: threatening the United States by trafficking nuclear materials, narcotics, and military-grade weapons will trigger an uncompromising response.”

Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg said Ebisawa’s crimes included “an attempt to sell weapons-grade plutonium to Iran and to flood New York with deadly narcotics.”

U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton for the Southern District of New York called the illicit trafficking of nuclear materials “an existential threat to every New Yorker and every American.”