{"id":689265,"date":"2026-01-11T16:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/689265\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T16:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:40:17","slug":"terror-gang-faces-demands-from-the-kinahan-cartel-over-an-unpaid-drug-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/689265\/","title":{"rendered":"Terror gang faces demands from the Kinahan cartel over an unpaid drug debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u00a33 million shipment of drugs was seized at Belfast Harbour in 2022, disrupting supply to loyalist-linked gangs<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PSNI Detective Inspector Conor Sweeney of the Organised Crime Task Force with the haul of drugs which had been destined to be divided between loyalist paramilitaries\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e9ba385d-e2bd-4036-80b4-5a819edbe13f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">PSNI Detective Inspector Conor Sweeney of the Organised Crime Task Force with the haul of drugs which had been destined to be divided between loyalist paramilitaries<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">East Belfast UVF is facing demands from a drug gang linked to the Kinahan cartel over an unpaid debt, sources have claimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The organised crime gang in the east of the city has been saddled with a bill for the last three years after a huge seizure of Class A and Class B drugs in Belfast docks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a33 million shipment of drugs was seized at Belfast Harbour in 2022, disrupting supply to loyalist-linked gangs PSNI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-689265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115877460415159582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689265","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=689265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}