The leaders of the Kinahan cartel have fled their homes in Dubai and are moving between the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Jordan. Some have attempted to travel to Asia under assumed names as the international manhunt to bring them to justice intensifies.
The hunt for Daniel Kinahan, the leader of the cartel, his father Christy, brother Christopher Jr and their associates has intensified since the United States offered a collective reward of $15 million last April for information leading to their arrest.
The cartel’s leadership is stranded in the Middle East at present because of the imposition of sanctions which prevent them from boarding commercial airlines. They are travelling by land and boat as they are unable to fly.
The reward announcement resulted in the security services being provided with evidence linking the gang to organised crime syndicates around the world, as well as to jihadist terrorist groups in the Middle East and Asia. Investigators have established that the gang has been providing money laundering services to jihadist organisations in the region, some with affiliations to al-Qaeda.
American law enforcement agencies have also linked the Kinahans to Mexico’s cocaine cartels, which have been responsible for smuggling vast quantities of drugs into the US, murdering thousands of people in the process in bloody gangland wars.
The bounty placed on Daniel Kinahan, a 45-year-old Dubliner who once enjoyed a successful career as a boxing promoter, is said to have caused widespread paranoia in the criminal gang.
The Kinahans are facing life sentences if extradited to Europe or the United States, where the authorities believe they have amassed sufficient evidence to charge them with multiple crimes. As a result, senior members of the gang have altered their appearances, become wary of using trackable technology and distanced themselves from their spouses, partners and children.
Members of the gang’s middle-management tier have left the Middle East for destinations in the Far East and South America out of fear that they might be arrested and extradited.
The security services believe that the cartel, by far the biggest organised crime gang to emerge from Ireland, is in the process of imploding. The intelligence suggests that new figures are beginning to assert themselves within the group, possibly with the intention of taking control.
Financially, the cartel has suffered significant losses since April when the US authorities announced sanctions against its leadership. It has also lost tens of millions which it had invested in cryptocurrencies, which have collapsed in value.
Having lived the lifestyle of a multimillionaire businessman for more than a decade, Daniel Kinahan and the leadership of his transnational drugs cartel are now living under assumed names. Their associates have also left the emirate for Asia and South America, fearing they might be arrested and extradited.
When Kinahan, his father Christy and brother Christopher Jr became aware they were the target of sanctions by the United States last April, they immediately made arrangements to go underground, leaving their homes in Dubai, from where they had run their global criminal organisation since 2016.
The move to the United Arab Emirates was supposed to provide the gang with a safe location to operate until a coalition of law enforcement agencies led by the US moved against them.
Hopefully they are arrested by the Americans, rather than Europeans. That’ll see them put away for a long time.
Never thought we would get a season of narcos set im Ireland like
Has anyone checked Cinnabon?
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of pricks. The moment the Yanks put a price on them, they knew the gig was up.
Crypto schmos got suckered lol
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Hopefully the Americans get them. They will languish in the Colorado Supermax with their buddy ElChapo for the rest of their days.
Will make for a great film when it all plays out
Suspended sentences so for the lot of them if they were put on trial in Ireland.
This sounds like it’d make a great tv show. Gomorrah in Dublin?
Honestly gotta admire the commitment
This sounds like PR. They live openly in UAE in a number of luxury compounds.
Thanks for posting. Interesting but doesn’t say much. How will they ultimately be caught? Surely if the US and the EU want a couple of scumbags they can arrange for them to be picked up and extradited? Especially if they have watertight cases?
I’m sensing a lot of vagueness about how strong the cases against them actually are, how stark their pariah status actually is and how relatively poor they actually are.
All their money but for the last 7 years of their life they’ve been holed up in a prison in Dubai, always paranoid and looking over their shoulder
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The leaders of the Kinahan cartel have fled their homes in Dubai and are moving between the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Jordan. Some have attempted to travel to Asia under assumed names as the international manhunt to bring them to justice intensifies.
The hunt for Daniel Kinahan, the leader of the cartel, his father Christy, brother Christopher Jr and their associates has intensified since the United States offered a collective reward of $15 million last April for information leading to their arrest.
The cartel’s leadership is stranded in the Middle East at present because of the imposition of sanctions which prevent them from boarding commercial airlines. They are travelling by land and boat as they are unable to fly.
The reward announcement resulted in the security services being provided with evidence linking the gang to organised crime syndicates around the world, as well as to jihadist terrorist groups in the Middle East and Asia. Investigators have established that the gang has been providing money laundering services to jihadist organisations in the region, some with affiliations to al-Qaeda.
American law enforcement agencies have also linked the Kinahans to Mexico’s cocaine cartels, which have been responsible for smuggling vast quantities of drugs into the US, murdering thousands of people in the process in bloody gangland wars.
The bounty placed on Daniel Kinahan, a 45-year-old Dubliner who once enjoyed a successful career as a boxing promoter, is said to have caused widespread paranoia in the criminal gang.
The Kinahans are facing life sentences if extradited to Europe or the United States, where the authorities believe they have amassed sufficient evidence to charge them with multiple crimes. As a result, senior members of the gang have altered their appearances, become wary of using trackable technology and distanced themselves from their spouses, partners and children.
Members of the gang’s middle-management tier have left the Middle East for destinations in the Far East and South America out of fear that they might be arrested and extradited.
The security services believe that the cartel, by far the biggest organised crime gang to emerge from Ireland, is in the process of imploding. The intelligence suggests that new figures are beginning to assert themselves within the group, possibly with the intention of taking control.
Financially, the cartel has suffered significant losses since April when the US authorities announced sanctions against its leadership. It has also lost tens of millions which it had invested in cryptocurrencies, which have collapsed in value.
Having lived the lifestyle of a multimillionaire businessman for more than a decade, Daniel Kinahan and the leadership of his transnational drugs cartel are now living under assumed names. Their associates have also left the emirate for Asia and South America, fearing they might be arrested and extradited.
When Kinahan, his father Christy and brother Christopher Jr became aware they were the target of sanctions by the United States last April, they immediately made arrangements to go underground, leaving their homes in Dubai, from where they had run their global criminal organisation since 2016.
The move to the United Arab Emirates was supposed to provide the gang with a safe location to operate until a coalition of law enforcement agencies led by the US moved against them.
Hopefully they are arrested by the Americans, rather than Europeans. That’ll see them put away for a long time.
Never thought we would get a season of narcos set im Ireland like
Has anyone checked Cinnabon?
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of pricks. The moment the Yanks put a price on them, they knew the gig was up.
Crypto schmos got suckered lol
[deleted]
Hopefully the Americans get them. They will languish in the Colorado Supermax with their buddy ElChapo for the rest of their days.
Will make for a great film when it all plays out
Suspended sentences so for the lot of them if they were put on trial in Ireland.
This sounds like it’d make a great tv show. Gomorrah in Dublin?
Honestly gotta admire the commitment
This sounds like PR. They live openly in UAE in a number of luxury compounds.
Thanks for posting. Interesting but doesn’t say much. How will they ultimately be caught? Surely if the US and the EU want a couple of scumbags they can arrange for them to be picked up and extradited? Especially if they have watertight cases?
I’m sensing a lot of vagueness about how strong the cases against them actually are, how stark their pariah status actually is and how relatively poor they actually are.
All their money but for the last 7 years of their life they’ve been holed up in a prison in Dubai, always paranoid and looking over their shoulder