The Kinahan mob moved cocaine across Africa in air ambulances, bought off officials for use of landing strips and took control of the key transport route to ...
On the Crescents and Crosses website, he is described as a director and chief security for the air ambulance company. More updates to come.” The website for Crescents and Crosses has been taken off-line since last April but cached pages list a number of people as directors and details their roles. The firm he mentioned in the tweet, Nyasa Air Charters, is based in Malawi and is affiliated with another charter firm, Crescents and Crosses, which runs an air ambulance service. Amazingly, the ‘Dapper Don’ hid in plain sight in the Gulf State and openly touted himself publicly as a legitimate aviation broker. Christy Kinahan Snr re-invented himself as an aviation boss from his headquarters in Dubai while his son Daniel turned CEO of the lucrative logistics wing dealing directly with South American suppliers and European buyers.
Garda sources say cartel network of Irish members and allies now so well known that many of them are no longer of any value to the cartel in Ireland.
He added that the Garda was now working with “reliable” law enforcement partners in their efforts to bring to justice the Dubai-based cartel leaders. Separately, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris last week said the Kinahan cartel would show “resilience” in the face of the international law enforcement effort now directed at it. And it has now begun its efforts to rejuvenate itself by using Irish and foreign people with clean criminal records as franchisees.