Daniel Kinahan

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Daniel Kinahan drug cartel channelling drugs through Africa on ... (Irish Mirror)

A report has found both substantial local consumption and expanding transit flows to Europe and Australia from South America.

However, in recent months the Garda Commissioner Drew Harris revealed the net is closing in on the the heads of the crime organisation who are likely to be arrested abroad. It added: “The cocaine is often concealed in or among a shipment of licit goods, either as a directly designed shipment of contaminated cargo or in a rip on/rip off arrangement where the container seals are broken and replaced fraudulently. Christy Kinahan Snr is understood to have been in Zimbabwe as recently as March or April last year – just before the US announced financial sanctions on him and his sons and four other associates. Last summer, it emerged the Kinahan cartel was moving cocaine across the continent in air ambulances and Christy Kinahan Snr was planning to take full control of the drug transit routes through the African continent. The documents state the cocaine shipments are mostly sent in containers from the port of Santos in Brazil as well as from a stream of human carriers. “West and north Africa are the continent’s more famous cocaine corridors, yet given their much higher enforcement profile – with French naval carriers patrolling the Gulf of Guinea – it is hard to compare based on seizure data alone.”

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Nicola Tallant: Noose tightens on Kinahan cartel as associates ... (Sunday World)

The trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch for the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel is set to resume this week as the Special Criminal Court move towards ...

The third is a recorded conversation between The Monk and Dowdall as they made their way north in the aftermath of the Regency Hotel and during which they discussed giving ‘three yokes’ to dissidents in exchange for mediation talks with the Kinahan organisation. In the past 12 months, the gang have been named by the US Treasury and placed on their most-wanted list, the Hawala money-laundering system used by the organisation has been dismantled and plans by Christy Snr to relocate to the safety of Zimbabwe have been scuppered. Daniel Kinahan is the only member of the immediate family likely to face trial in Ireland, while ‘Dapper Don’ Christy Snr and his namesake son are being investigated for money laundering, travelling on false passports and their roles in the mob in a number of different jurisdictions, including the USA where the Drug Enforcement Agency is investigating them for funding terrorism. While Hutch remains in custody fighting for his reputation and freedom, Kinahan is still a free man, albeit in a gilded cage in Dubai where he and his father, Christy Snr, and brother Christopher Jnr sought refuge in the aftermath of the Regency and the tsunami of law enforcement that came in its wake. It is expected that it will take just weeks to complete the so-called ‘trial of the century’, centring on the fall-out between the Hutch and Kinahan groupings which resulted in a murderous feud that has claimed 18 lives. The trial of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch for the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel is set to resume this week as the Special Criminal Court move towards the closing arguments in the case.

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