The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed a superseding indictment on Wednesday in a Manhattan federal court charging a Japanese national with trying to sell nuclear materials, including materials capable of being used to produce a nuclear bomb, to Iran and trying to purchase a large number of weapons to arm a terrorist group.
Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, and co-defendant Somphop Singhasiri, 61, were previously charged in April 2022 with international narcotics trafficking and firearms offenses, the DOJ said in a statement. Both men face numerous life sentences for a long list of criminal charges.
Ebisawa was charged again in the new superseding indictment with trying to sell nuclear materials to a man that he thought was an Iranian general.
“The defendant stands accused of conspiring to sell weapons grade nuclear material and lethal narcotics from Burma, and to purchase military weaponry on…
