Teenager, 2 men referred to prosecutors over online uranium trade english.kyodonews.net

KYODO NEWS - 1 hour ago - 14:15 | All, JapanPolice referred a 17-year-old high school student and two men to prosecutors on Tuesday over their alleged involvement in the online trading of uranium in violation of Japanese law regulating nuclear materials.
According to investigative sources, the temporary worker sold small amounts of depleted uranium and natural uranium in glass tubes on a Yahoo online auction site, and has told the police he purchased the uranium through an overseas website.
Japan's laws on nuclear materials ban people other than approved businesses and organizations from trading nuclear fuel materials such as high-grade uranium.
The temporary worker and the teen were also referred to prosecutors over a separate case in which they allegedly traded americium, a radioactive substance.
The police launched an investigation into the online uranium trading after they were alerted by an official of the Secretariat of the Nuclear Regulation Authority in early 2018, who found a substance under the name of "uranium 99.9%" being offered on an online auction site in November 2017.