{"id":89559,"date":"2025-05-10T08:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T08:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/89559\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T08:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T08:06:11","slug":"dubai-based-crime-lord-wreaking-havoc-on-edinburgh-unmasked-by-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/89559\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai-based crime lord ‘wreaking havoc’ on Edinburgh unmasked by rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Dubai-based kingpin who is understood to be ruling over the ‘havoc’ across Edinburgh has been unmasked by gangland<\/a> rivals.<\/p>\n

Sources have said the violence in the country, which began in Edinburgh and spread to Glasgow<\/a>, could reach ‘a whole new level’. This comes after he was unmasked on an Instagram account, reports the Daily Record<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The page, which is understood to be run by associates of mob boss Mark Richardson, shared his passport photo with another image.<\/p>\n

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It comes as enemies claim Big “ran away screaming” after a chance encounter on a street in the United Arab Emirates city. But close associates of the Dubai player say mocking him is a dangerous error and he will retaliate with the force of his army behind him.<\/p>\n

One said: “Richardson’s mob and the Daniel clan crossed the line this week by creating a social media account to picture and mock Mr Big.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The images were shared online -Credit:Daily Record\/Instagram<\/p>\n

“The chat about him running away from their associates in Dubai isn’t true at all. He was walking down the street on his way to meet a pal in a pub when he noticed three guys he doesn’t get on with, but it is unrelated to the gang feud in Scotland.<\/p>\n

“Big ran into the pub to get his pal and they all stood outside the bar arguing for about 20 minutes, but nothing serious happened. The Scotland-based gangsters have heard about this and now they’re trying to take credit because they haven’t been able to retaliate against his attacks on them so far.<\/p>\n

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“But there are hundreds of people behind Mr Big and mocking him will take this war to a new level.”<\/p>\n

Photos on the account, which the Record has to blur for legal reasons, show Mr Big in a grainy passport shot, captioned: “Biggest sh**ebag out there. Wait till the lads get you.”<\/p>\n

A second image showing the hood wearing sunglasses reads: “Remember the heat you’ve brought on all the other people in Dubai cause you’re a sh**ebag.”<\/p>\n

A third post, accompanied with laughing face emojis, says: “Biggest sh**ebag out there with money. Were you not screaming for your life last week and running away?”<\/p>\n

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Mr Big’s enforcers, a faceless and frightening group going by the name of Tamo Junto (TMJ), have carried out a serious of firebombings and other vicious attacks on homes, businesses and cars linked to both the Edinburgh and Glasgow clans runs by Richardson and Daniels in a row over drugs that erupted two months ago.<\/p>\n

Two posts on the Instagram page, threatening to strike back, read: “Karma is a b***h” and “I don’t like to call it revenge, returning the favour sounds nicer.”<\/p>\n

But so far, both mob bosses in Scotland have been helpless to defend themselves as Big wages his violent war across both cities destroying their assets and their empires.<\/p>\n

TMJ regularly share videos of their hits, showing infernos and shootings, as they vow to “exterminate the Richardson and Daniel viruses”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dubai-based kingpin who is understood to be ruling over the ‘havoc’ across Edinburgh has been unmasked by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,38218,2721,1102,4884,42530,24541,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-89559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-daily-record","10":"tag-dubai","11":"tag-edinburgh","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-instagram-account","14":"tag-mark-richardson","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89559","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=89559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}