A new BBC series has explored the lawsuit that saw former boxing advisor-alleged international drug cartel boss Daniel Kinahan served with a lawsuit that should cost him some $10m.<\/p>\n
Last September, a judge ordered Kinahan to pay Heredia Boxing Management, owned by brothers Moses and Ralph Heredia,\u00a0 $9.7m following the culmination of a four-year lawsuit, and Heredia was interviewed as part of the new series on the BBC, titled Kinahan: The True Story of Ireland\u2019s Mafia.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit contended that Kinahan and his boxing company, MTK Global, had poached Jojo Diaz, whom manager Heredia felt had been more than a fighter to him.<\/p>\n
\u201cAround 2009, that\u2019s when I met Jojo Diaz. I\u2019m at the gym training, he comes in, starts hitting the bag, and you just know, the kid has the swag,\u201d Heredia told the BBC. \u201cYou just know he was going somewhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy phone was open for this kid 24\/7. I was everything to this kid, for me he was like my son. We signed him to a contract; he was going to go professional\u2026 January 2020, we finally got the world title shot\u2026 You dream about it; you dream about this moment for years. When the moment came, Jojo showed up\u2026 The journey, the hard work, the sweat, just putting up, the good, the bad, the ugly, it was well worth it, and the feeling was incredible. One of my proudest moments. And I was very proud of Jojo.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Diaz\u2019s head was allegedly turned by Kinahan, something that clearly frustrates Heredia to this day. He told the BBC he was angry going back over it, and recalled how he found out.<\/p>\n
\u201cMTK have signed him? Without my knowledge? They didn\u2019t have the balls to fucking call me or anything about it,\u201d Heredia said. \u201cI received a text. A fucking text. How could this happen? We had a contract. We have a contract with this kid, how is it possible? Who\u2019s got the balls to come and do something like this? It was Daniel Kinahan; an individual that likes to steal fighters when they\u2019re already fucking made\u2026 He came to America, he came to the States, stole a fighter, so the only thing to do was fight, and sue his ass.\u201d<\/p>\n
Heredia said he was not concerned by Kinahan\u2019s reputation and said someone was sent to him to broker an agreement between them, saying they wanted to work together. But Heredia was not interested in a reconciliation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Instead, using RICO laws \u2013 associated with laundering \u2018dirty\u2019 money into \u2018clean\u2019 money \u2013 he sued Kinahan for damages, and claimed \u201cfuture earnings and dreams were shattered by the scumbags.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis shit hurts, man,\u201d said Heredia.<\/p>\n
Heredia\u2019s legal team served Kinahan a complaint in Dubai, where it is believed Kinahan still lives, and the US government took notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So did the judge, making the award in Heredia\u2019s favor. But getting the $9.7m could be another challenge altogether.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to go out and find where his goodies are hiding,\u201d Heredia said, referring to Kinahan\u2019s assets. \u201cCause he\u2019s got plenty. Oh, he\u2019s got plenty.\u201d<\/p>\n
A lawyer for the Kinahans told the BBC \u201crumors\u201d and \u201ctheories\u201d about them have not been tested in court\u2026 \u201cand a \u2018massive investigation\u2019 by five countries ended with a dismissal of the main charges against them.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new BBC series has explored the lawsuit that saw former boxing advisor-alleged international drug cartel boss Daniel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,4496,4495,16604,16605,16603,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-27488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-boxingscene","11":"tag-daniel-kinahan","12":"tag-heredia-boxing-management","13":"tag-ralph-heredia","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114353260683047994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}