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Posted on 04/18/2026 3:48:05 PM PDT by Libloather
An international fugitive was arrested in Dubai this week following a years-long manhunt.
Daniel Kinahan, the alleged leader of one of Ireland’s biggest criminal gangs, the Kinahan cartel, was arrested on organized crime charges on Wednesday in a covert operation involving Irish and United Arab Emirates authorities.
The 48-year-old alleged crime boss 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.
Dubai police didn’t name Kinahan, saying they had “arrested an Irish fugitive for his alleged role in an organized criminal group involved in international crimes in his home country.”
He was identified by Irish media outlets on Friday.
Ireland’s national police force, the Garda Síochána, said an Irish man in his 40s was arrested under a warrant from the Irish courts.
“An Garda Síochána has been steadfast in our determination that we would pursue those allegedly involved in serious Organized Criminal activity, wherever they go,” the police said in a statement, according to The Irish Star.
“Today’s arrest is another extremely important demonstration of the need for international law enforcement co-operation in tackling transnational organized crime.”
Kinahan fled Ireland for Spain, then the UAE, 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.
The US Treasury Department offered a reward of $5 million in 2022 for information leading to the arrest of the Kinahan cartel’s leaders or the organization’s “financial destruction.”
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Too bad Ireland doesn’t have the death penalty.
They will soon, for saying “Ireland For The Irish!”
He would blend into the crowd in the British Isles or US, but he probably stuck out a bit in Dubai.
He has been based in the UAE , but now that Iran is out of favor over there I guess his associates decided not to cover for him, or aren’t available to do so any more.
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Iran, Hezbollah implicated in Ireland’s largest drug bust
JNS ^ | 07.09.25
Posted on 7/10/2025, 1:39:07 AM by Words Matter
The trial of two Iranians and six others, who tried to smuggle 2.2 tons of cocaine to the island, exposed networks spanning the Middle East and Venezuela. JNS Staff. July 9, 2025 / JNS) An Irish court on July 4 sentenced two Iranian nationals in connection with a transnational drug trafficking operation involving more than 2.2 tons of cocaine, as authorities investigate suspected links to Hezbollah and the Iranian regime, Irish media reported.
The men—Soheil Jelveh, 51, a former captain of the cargo vessel MV Matthew, and Saied Hassani, 39, a senior officer with significant maritime experience—received sentences of 17.5 and 15 years, respectively, for drug trafficking. They were among eight people sentenced on Friday to a combined 129 years in prison, The Irish Examiner reported.
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Kinahan Cartel
Links to Chapo, the Chinese mafia, powerful families in Dubai, the Lyons crime family in the UK...
Edin “Tito” Gacanin, a Netherlands passport holder and native of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, has been convicted of trafficking huge quantities of narcotics to Europe from Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned him in 2023, calling him “the leader of the Tito and Dino Cartel” — reportedly part of a super cartel of notorious criminal organizations that include the Kinahan organized crime group of Ireland, the Dutch Mocro Maffia and Italy’s Camorra —-—— A notorious drug kingpin set up shell companies in the British Virgin Islands and Dubai to employ alleged cartel underlings, documents show, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/ICIJ.org, By Fergus Shiel, Marcos Garcia Rey and Jelena Cosic, August 20, 2024 and a transnational money launderer.
18 posted on 7/10/2025, 10:32:16 PM by piasa
Thank you for the backstory. I weep for my ancestral island.
Ping. Can you believe this? Read piasa’s post just above mine.
Shoot, drop him off in Southie and you’d never be able to find him again.
South Boston, South Philly, South East DC, not much difference. Find him dead of an OD in a gutter. The only tragedy would be the poor black teens who would get blamed for it.
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