Daniel Kinahan

The Gulf state has launched a financial crackdown on members of the cartel based in Dubai, including Daniel Kinahan, who will now have their bank accounts ...

The announcements made at City Hall last week have generated additional avenues to pursue, and give us confidence we will achieve our objectives.” A spokesman said: “An Garda Síochána continues to work with our partners at an international level to ensure we achieve the objective of dismantling the Kinahan organised crime group. In a statement to the Financial Times, the UAE government said that authorities were co-operating closely “on cases involving foreign elements”, as part of the UAE’s comitments “for combating illicit activity”. Mr Martin welcomed the news saying that it was part of a wider international effort to clamp down on organised crime and the Kinahan Organised Crime Group. The UAE said it will continue to work with Irish, US, UK and Spanish authorities to investigate the workings of the criminal gang. Taoiseach Micheál Martin has welcomed moves by the United Arab Emirates to freeze assets of the Kinahan gang members as part of a wider international effort to clamp down on organised crime.

The net has been tightening on the family claimed to be behind more than 20 years of murder, drug smuggling and terror.

Washington admitted the Kinahans to an exclusive and bloody group of gangs, to have been sanctioned by the US government. Had he had he used his skills in any other part of business. It is claimed that the Kinahans' sinister network is felt far from Dublin and Dubai. They have been accused of having links to crime across Europe from the Netherlands to Spain. I think he could have been highly successful,” the Fianna Fáil politician said. He said Daniel Kinahan was “a playboy” with a lifestyle funded by an “empire built upon the pain and suffering of cocaine and heroin addiction.” In September 2015, Gary Hutch, a 34-year-old gangland figure, was shot dead in an apartment complex in Spain. The Kinahans were accused of being responsible for the murder of the nephew of rival crime boss Gerry “The Monk” Hutch.

Daniel Kinahan, the co-founder of MTK and advisor to Tyson Fury and Darren Till, is wanted by the US government.

For years Kinahan has been suspected of pulling the strings behind MTK Global; a company he founded and has since risen to become one of the biggest power brokers in world boxing. MTK, which manages Tyson Fury, Darren Till, Billy Joe Saunders, Aleksandar Rakic and a slew of other top boxers and MMA fighters, has long claimed that Kinahan stopped working with the company since 2017. Tyson Fury, who was pictured with Kinahan in February, is fighting Dillian Whyte this weekend.