US authorities revealed yesterday that they have arrested three Thai men and a Japanese yakuza organised crime chief in New York City on April 4 – 5. The men are accused of trafficking heroin and methamphetamine, in addition to attempting to acquire surface-to-air missiles for insurgent groups in Myanmar and Sri Lanka.
Takeshi Ebizawa, Sompak Raksaranee, Somphop Sigsiri and Suksan Chulanan had been arrested on drug and arms trafficking and money laundering costs, in accordance with the US Department of Justice. The males have been under investigation by US Drug Enforcement Administration brokers in Thailand since 2019 since they attempted to sell an secret agent large portions of heroin and methamphetamine from Myanmar’s rebel group the United Wa State Army, or UWSA.
Japanese yakuza leader Takeshi Ebizawa deliberate to buy automatic weapons, rockets, machine weapons and surface-to-air missiles and supply them to varied rebel groups. ติดตั้งโซล่าเซลล์บ้าน planned to supply weapons to the UWSA and the Karen National Union and Shan State Army, that are ethnic minority forces resisting Myanmar’s government forces. He additionally planned to produce weapons to Sri Lanka’s militant organisation the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The three Thai men had been his co-conspirators within the operation.
In February, an undercover DEA agent and two Danish undercover police officers confirmed Ebizawa and an affiliate a big selection of US military weapons together with machine weapons and anti-tank rockets in Copenhagen. The yakuza chief made deals with the undercover officers to buy heavy-duty weaponry destined for insurgent groups in East Asia. Ebizawa also made offers to buy massive portions of medicine, which he planned to promote in New York City.
The US Department of Justice say that Ebizawa is “a chief of the yakuza transnational organised crime syndicate”. Yakuza is the title given to the international Japanese mafia.
Ebizawa told the undercover brokers that Suksan, a Thai-American twin citizen, was a Thai air force basic and that Thai native Sompak was a retired Thai navy officer. It is unclear how the 4 men ended up within the United States..