The purported leader of a Japan-based crime syndicate has pleaded guilty to charges alleging that he conspired to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in the belief that Iran would use it for nuclear weapons.

Takeshi Ebisawa admitted at his plea that he 'brazenly trafficked' material including weapons-grade plutonium out of Myanmar The purported leader of a Japan-based crime syndicate pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges alleging that he conspired to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in the belief that Iran would use it for nuclear weapons.