A man with a traditional yakuza tattooWASHINGTON, Apr 8 Japan's yakuza organized crime group, which was trying to acquire air defense missiles stolen from a US military base in Afghanistan, was told by the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. ) since 2019. He was arrested in New York on Monday, April 4th. As part of this case, three Thai citizens were also detained. The evidence base against the accused was created with the help of a DEA employee who, as an undercover agent, posed as an arms salesman who was interested in a high-ranking yakuza, the prosecutor's office said in a communiqué. As payment for the weapons, Ebisawa planned import at least a ton of drugs into the United States for their sale on the streets of New York and other cities. He planned to transfer the purchased surface-to-air missiles to militants from ethnic armed groups operating in Myanmar. The New York Daily News reports that in addition to air defense missiles, more than 70 rocket-propelled grenade launchers and ten machine guns appeared in a batch of weapons intended for rebels in Myanmar M-60.
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