{"id":737393,"date":"2026-04-18T21:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/737393\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:07:13","slug":"alleged-irish-cartel-boss-arrested-in-dubai-after-years-long-manhunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/737393\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Irish cartel boss arrested in Dubai after years-long manhunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

An international fugitive was arrested in Dubai<\/a> this week following a years-long manhunt.<\/p>\n

Daniel Kinahan, the alleged leader of one of Ireland\u2019s biggest criminal gangs, the Kinahan cartel<\/a>, was arrested on\u00a0organized crime charges\u00a0on Wednesday in a covert operation involving Irish and United Arab Emirates authorities.<\/p>\n

The 48-year-old\u00a0alleged crime\u00a0boss is expected to face charges in Ireland related to a gangland feud between the Kinahan cartel and the Hutch gang that has left 18 people dead since 2015.<\/p>\n

Dubai police didn\u2019t\u00a0name Kinahan<\/a>, saying they had \u201carrested an Irish fugitive for his alleged role in an organized criminal \u200bgroup involved in international crimes in his \u200bhome country.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was identified by\u00a0Irish media outlets\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n

Ireland\u2019s national police force<\/a>, the Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, said an Irish man in his 40s was arrested under a warrant from the Irish courts.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na has been steadfast in our determination that we would pursue those allegedly involved in serious Organized Criminal activity, wherever they go,\u201d the police said in a statement, according to The Irish Star. <\/p>\n

\"ManDaniel Kinahan is the alleged leader of one of Ireland\u2019s biggest criminal gangs, the Kinahan cartel. U.S Department of State<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s arrest is another extremely important demonstration of the need for international law enforcement co-operation in tackling transnational organized crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"IrishIrish influencer Niall Ryan (right) postes with Daniel Kinahan and fighter Tyson Fury in a 2022 social media post. Instagram \/ Niall Ryan<\/p>\n

Kinahan fled Ireland for Spain, then the UAE<\/a>, after he was the believed target in an assassination attempt that left an associate of the Kinahan cartel, David Byrne, dead at a boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel in Dublin.<\/p>\n

The US Treasury Department offered a reward of $5 million in 2022 for information leading to the arrest of the Kinahan cartel\u2019s leaders or the organization\u2019s \u201cfinancial destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cartel is considered a juggernaut in the European drug trade, and, along with other European crime organizations, has created a \u201csuper cartel\u201d that controls around a third of Europe\u2019s cocaine trade.<\/p>\n

Kinahan is also affiliated with the boxing world<\/a> and was the founder of boxing management company MTK Global.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An international fugitive was arrested in Dubai this week following a years-long manhunt. Daniel Kinahan, the alleged leader…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":737394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[12424,11307,103119,4219,32874,1230,9920,15950,12784,119,183551,50,7207,10317,103,107],"class_list":["post-737393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-arrest","tag-arrests","tag-cartels","tag-crime","tag-drug-cartels","tag-drugs","tag-dubai","tag-gang","tag-gangs","tag-ireland","tag-manhunts","tag-news","tag-police","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-world","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116427754650319123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}