A Yakuza leader, Takeshi Ebisawa, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempting to sell uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in a plot allegedly connected to Iran's nuclear program.

A Yakuza member, Takeshi Ebisawa, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in New York for trafficking nuclear material, including an attempt to sell military-grade plutonium to Iran.

Takeshi Ebisawa, 61, a Japanese national, pleaded guilty to six charges related to trafficking nuclear material in a U.S. court.