Kinahan Organised Crime Group Explained
Kinahan Organised Crime Group |
Founded: | 1990s |
Years Active: | 1990s–present |
Founding Location: | Dublin, Ireland |
Founded By: | Christopher Vincent Kinahan, Sr.[1] |
Territory: | Ireland, United Kingdom, Spain, United Arab Emirates |
Criminal Activities: | Drug trafficking, money laundering, murder, arms trafficking, extortion, blackmailing[2] |
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The Kinahan Organised Crime Group (KOCG), also known as the Kinahan Cartel, is a major Irish transnational organised crime syndicate alleged to be the most powerful in Ireland and one of the largest organised crime groups in the world.[30] [31] [32] It is also established in the UK, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates.[33] It was founded by Christy Kinahan in the 1990s. His eldest son Daniel manages the day-to-day operations of the family's criminal group.[34] Estimated reports have credited them with wealth of up to €1 billion.[35] [36]
The Kinahan Cartel has had an ongoing feud with the Hutch Gang since 2015, which had resulted in 18 deaths by August 2021.[37] [38] [39] [40]
Background
The Kinahan Organised Crime Group was founded by Christy Kinahan in the late 1990s and early 2000s while Ireland's "Celtic Tiger" period of rapid economic growth was occurring.[32] [41] A native Dubliner, Kinahan's first convictions date back to the late 1970s and involved house breaking, car theft, burglary, handling stolen goods and forgery.[42] [43] The group reportedly began as a street gang of inner-city drug dealers in Dublin, but soon grew on a global scale to become the current multi-million dollar criminal network that it is today.[44] Christy Kinahan served as the direct leader of the organisation up until the position was passed on to his son Daniel Kinahan.[45] Since then, Irish courts have concluded that the group is a murderous organisation involved in the international trafficking of drugs and firearms.[46] [47]
On 12 April 2022, the United States Department of State announced the offering of rewards of up to 5 million under the Narcotics Rewards Program for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Kinahan family members. The reward is offered jointly with the Garda Síochána, National Crime Agency, and Drug Enforcement Administration.[48] [49] [50] The seven key members were named as: Daniel Kinahan; Christopher Kinahan; Christopher Kinahan Jnr; veteran Dublin-born criminal Bernard Clancy; Daniel Kinahan’s “advisor and closest confidant" Sean McGovern; former KOCG enforcer now Marbella-based money launderer "Johnny Cash" Morrissey; and Ian Dixon who was arrested over the 2015 Costa del Sol murder of Gary Hutch but never charged.
Despite the sanctions being imposed on the group, it was reported in August 2022 that Spanish-based associates of the Kinahan cartel were continuing to operate multi-million-euro drug shipments.[51] "Johnny Cash" Morrissey and his wife Nicola were arrested in Marbella, Spain on Monday 13 September 2022.
In February 2023, a raid on a business in the Long Mile Road area of Dublin led to the seizure of equipment, the arrest of eight people and 40 kg of cocaine.[52] [53] Over 2,000 containers of nitric oxide were seized, as well as €78,000 in cash, a hydraulic drugs press, communications devices, mixing agent and a money counter.[52] [53] Two of those arrested were later released.[52] [53]
In 2023 Edin Gačanin, who is involved in organized crime in Bosnia and Herzegovina was sanctioned by the US who cited "close links" to Daniel Kinahan after broken encrypted chats show how the Kinahan cartel was involved in €350m coke plot. The US named Daniel Kinahan, his father Christy Kinahan Snr and Christy Kinahan Jnr as the three key players of the Kinahan gang.[54]
Kinahan family and associates
The Kinahan crime family is primarily involved in the drug trade.[55]
- Christy Kinahan – Also known as "the Dapper Don",[56] Christy is the founder of the Kinahan crime group.[57] He has served prison sentences in Ireland, The Netherlands and Belgium, including six years for dealing heroin, years for possession of cocaine, and four years for money laundering.
- Daniel Kinahan – Christy's eldest son, and allegedly manages the day-to-day operations of the family's criminal empire. A boxing promoter, Daniel has worked as an advisor for Tyson Fury.[58]
- Christopher Kinahan (Christy Jnr) – younger son of Christy Kinahan, is wanted by the US Department of State and there is a reward of up to $5 million leading to his arrest and/or conviction for participating in transnational organised crime, namely narcotics trafficking and money laundering.[59]
- Imre "The Butcher" Arakas – A notorious Estonian hitman, he is known for committing murders in several European countries, such as Estonia, Lithuania, Spain and Ireland, in addition to having killed dozens of members of the Russian Mafia.[60]
- Declan "Mr Nobody" Brady – One of Daniel Kinahan's closest associates, he holds some of the most important positions within the gang: he is the main logistics man and quartermaster of the Kinahans, being primarily responsible for the gang's weapons depot and for their safety as a result.[61]
- Ross Browning - A native of Dublin, Ireland, he is one of the Kinahan family's top lieutenants. Considered Daniel Kinahan's right-hand man, he has been responsible for the operations of the Kinahan crime syndicate in Ireland for over two decades and as a result, he has become a priority target for the Gardaí and the CAB due to his proximity to Daniel Kinahan.[62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69]
- Liam Byrne – A notorious and dangerous Dublin gangster, he is a high-ranking member of the Kinahan Family. He comes from a criminal family led by his father James Byrne, who was an associate of notorious Irish gangster Martin "The General" Cahill, and is the older brother of David Byrne, an associate of the Kinahan Family who was murdered on 5 February 2016 at the Regency Hotel in Whitehall, Dublin.
- Trevor Byrne - currently serving 17.5 years in prison for firearms offences and robbery is suspected of being a gunman in the murder of Eddie Hutch.[70]
- Lee Canavan - convicted of the 2016 murder of David Douglas along with Freddie Thompson, and given a mandatory life sentence. Canavan’s half-brother Gareth Brophy and Nathan Foley were convicted of being involved and given 9.5 years and 6 years in prison.[71]
- Bernard Patrick Clancy – A childhood friend of Daniel Kinahan. He was previously jailed for drugs offences on the Costa del Sol. Sanctioned by OFAC.[31] [72]
- Ian Thomas Dixon – He has arranged multiple payments on behalf of Daniel Kinahan, as well as moved bulk currency in Ireland and the United Kingdom.[46]
- Douglas Glynn - A footsoldier jailed for 8 years in 2023 for managing a drugs warehouse containing €1.4m of drugs. Glynn is currently serving a 6.5 year sentence for involvement in the foiled plot to murder James 'Mago' Gately.[73]
- Jamie Griffin – A footsoldier for the gang, he is the younger brother of Leon Griffin. Pleaded guilty to a violent assault in December 2012.[74]
- Leon Griffin – A footsoldier for the gang, he is a friend of Freddie Thompson and is known to be one of the most brutal and volatile criminals not only in the Kinahan family, but in all of Dublin.[75] Jailed for 3 years after a high speed chase through Dublin in 2019.[76]
- Gerard "Hatchet" Kavanagh – He was believed to have worked as a debt collector and enforcer for the Kinahans.[77] He was shot dead on 5 September 2014 in Elivira, Marbella. Aged 44 at the time of his death, he had been heavily involved in the drug trade for over 20 years.[78]
- Thomas "Bomber" Kavanagh – The second-in-command of the Kinahan family,[79] he is considered by many to be Ireland's most feared mobster and is considered the main name of the Kinahan family in the United Kingdom.[80] [81] He is known to be brutal and violent, being responsible for at least seven murders.[82] He is the head of the UK branch of the Kinahan gang.[83] Currently in jail in England serving a 21 year sentence.[84]
- Jonathan Keogh was convicted in November 2018 along with his sister Regina Keogh and Thomas Fox of the murder of Gareth Hutch.[85] [86] All three were sentenced to life imprisonment.
- Gerard Mackin - reportedly a Kinahan "enforcer", was extradited from Spain in 2022 before pleading guilty to money laundering. Mackin had previously been tried twice for the murder in 2007 of Edward Burns, a taxi driver, in Belfast. Convicted at the first trial, a retrial collapsed when witnesses refused to testify. He had also been convicted in 2017, for a "depraved and barbaric" assault where a man was nailed to a kitchen floor with a nail-gun.[87]
- Sean Gerard McGovern – Daniel Kinahan's advisor and closest confidant. He has managed communications on behalf of Daniel Kinahan and sells multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine.[46]
- John Francis "Johnny Cash" Morrissey – Manchester, England-born former Cork restaurateur, Morrissey worked as an enforcer before fleeing Ireland in the early 2000s after reportedly being involved in a bid to harm an Irish Criminal Assets Bureau officer. Based in Marbella, Spain ever since, Morrissey allegedly became the KOCG drugs shipping organiser and money launderer. On 13 September 2022, a combined force of six enforcement agencies led by the Spanish Civil Guard's elite Central Operative Unit, arrested Morrissey at his villa in Marbella - the first of the seven men named by the United States' Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in April 2022 to be arrested. Morrissey had gained notoriety from being part of the team publicising his wife Nicola's Scottish-based Nero Drinks Company Ltd, which was thought to be part of Morrissey's €200 million annual money-laundering operation, leading to her arrest as well at the same time.[88]
- Ciaran O'Driscoll – A footsoldier for the gang, he has a criminal record that ranges from possession of illegal drugs to attempted murder.[89] Jailed for 11.5 years in 2017.[90]
- Paul Rice – A high-ranking member of the Kinahan family, he is known for being extremely violent and because of this, he is considered a high-value target by other enemy gangs.[91] [92] [93]
- Freddie Thompson – A cousin of Liam Byrne, he was the head of the Dublin branch of the Kinahan gang from 1997 to 2008, when he had to leave Ireland over a feud he had with the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).[94] He is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of David Douglas.[95]
- Lyons Crime Family – An organized crime family based in Glasgow, Scotland. They have been involved in various criminal activities over the years, including drug trafficking, extortion, and violence. Their activities have garnered significant media attention and law enforcement scrutiny.
Notes and References
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- Web site: Irish cartel 'working with Lyons crime gang in Scotland' amidst fears Scots football flooded with drug money. Daily Record. 2022-04-19. 2023-06-22.
- Web site: The Kinahan cartel backed Scotland's infamous Lyons mob in gangland feud, politician says. Sunday World. 2022-05-01. 2023-06-22.
- Web site: Kinahan crime cartel drawn into another feud - this time in Scotland. Irish Independent. 2017-09-11. 2023-06-22.
- News: Kinahan gang's drug route exposed as cartel 'employs African thugs to threaten EU port workers'. Irish Mirror. John. Hand. 25 April 2022. 7 August 2022.
- Web site: US sanctions Bosnian super-cartel drugs boss over 'close links' to Kinahan gang. GNN Liberia. 2020-10-21. 2023-06-29.
- News: Kinahan cartel under surveillance in Dubai after senior member met Italian mafia boss there. TheJournal.ie. Garreth. MacNamee. 1 December 2017. 7 August 2022.
- Web site: How Liverpool gang boss ‘The Lam’ was linked to the Irish mafia. Liverpool Echo. Tom. Duffy. 12 January 2020. 26 September 2023.
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- Web site: MacNamee . Garreth . Italian mafia boss with close ties to Daniel Kinahan 'to turn state witness' following arrest . 2022-12-12 . TheJournal.ie . 7 December 2022 . en.
- Web site: Kinahan cartel: hunt for gang now linked to Iran and Hezbollah. The Sunday Times. 2023-05-13. 2023-06-25. subscription.
- Web site: Kinahan cartel used tiny Iranian island to launder dirty money and for holidays. Sunday World. 2023-05-28. 2023-06-25.
- Web site: Exposed: Johnny Morrissey, Hezbollah, and the multi-million euro laundering scheme. Sunday World. 2022-09-19. 2023-06-25.
- Web site: Revealed: Kinahan gang's links to cocaine empire of feared 'El Chapo' syndicate. Irish Independent. 2016-04-08. 2023-06-22.
- Web site: Kinahans on the run as drugs cartel disintegrates. The Sunday Times. 2022-09-11. 2023-06-22. subscription.
- Web site: Mob boss Daniel Kinahan's drug trafficking empire imploding amid crackdown on business partners. Dublin Live. 2022-05-23. 2023-06-22.
- Web site: Colombian drug lord, linked to Kinahan 'super-cartel', pleads guilty to cocaine trafficking. Sunday World. 2023-01-26. 2023-06-22.
- Web site: Kinahan-linked criminal used Chinese gang in Ireland to launder cash, court hears. Sunday World. 2023-03-16. 2023-08-27.
- Web site: Court hears Irish-based Chinese gang laundered drug trafficking proceeds for criminals. Breaking News (Ireland). 2023-06-21. 2023-06-22.
- Web site: Gardai raid Crumlin 'motorcycle club' suspected of links to Kinahan cartel. Dublin Live. 2019-02-13. 2023-06-29.
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- News: Kinahan cartel's Irish operation continues to crumble as net closes on mobster Daniel. Irish Mirror. John. Hand. 30 December 2021. 7 August 2022.
- Web site: Brian Grendon gang has taken drugs crown from Kinahan cartel, say gardai. The Times. 2020-09-13. 2023-05-25. subscription.
- Web site: Kinahan gang 'wants to take back control of drugs trade'. The Times. 2022-01-13. 2023-05-25. subscription.
- Web site: Kinahan rivals 'The Family' targeted in series of raids by gardai as cocaine, bullets and cash seized. Dublin Live. 2023-06-03. 2023-06-04.
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- News: Kinahan crime gang: United Arab Emirates freezes assets after US sanctions. BBC News. 21 April 2022. 5 August 2022.
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- News: Gardaí review list of 600 names linked to Kinahan crime family. Irish Examiner. Neil. Michael. 19 May 2022. 7 August 2022.
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- News: Is crime boss Christy Kinahan untouchable?. The Times. John. Mooney. 1 May 2016. 7 August 2022. subscription.
- News: Father of Kinahan cartel victim Michael Barr from Co Tyrone hopes for justice. Belfast Live. Paul. Healy. 13 April 2022. 7 August 2022.
- News: Daniel Kinahan 'reinventing' himself as boxing promoter. RTÉ News and Current Affairs. Paul. Reynolds. 18 May 2020. 7 August 2022.
- Web site: Treasury Sanctions Notorious Kinahan Organized Crime Group. United States Department of the Treasury. 11 April 2022. 5 August 2022.
- Web site: Cooperating at an International Level in Protecting Communities from Organised & Serious Crime. www.garda.ie. 5 August 2022.
- Web site: Department of State Offers Reward for Information to Bring Three Irish Transnational Criminals to Justice . 5 August 2022. 12 April 2022 . United States Department of State.
- Web site: Kinahan organised crime group sanctioned by US Department of the Treasury. Europol. 12 April 2022. 5 August 2022.
- Web site: Kinahan crime group hit with worldwide financial sanctions. National Crime Agency. 12 April 2022. 5 August 2022.
- News: Kinahan lieutenants continue to operate drug runs to Ireland and UK from Spanish hideaway despite sanctions. Irish Independent. Robin. Schiller. 1 August 2022. 5 August 2022. subscription.
- News: Kinahan gang's supply chain decimated as gardaí continue to dismantle criminal empire . MacNamee . Garreth . 2023-02-15 . 2023-02-18 . TheJournal.ie.
- News: Six questioned after raid at 'cocaine mixing factory' linked to Kinahans . Reynolds . Paul . 2023-02-15 . 2023-02-18 . RTÉ News.
- Web site: US sanctions Bosnian super-cartel drugs boss over 'close links' to Kinahan gang . 16 March 2023.
- News: MacIntyre. Darragh. 2020. The suspected gangster at the heart of world boxing. BBC. 16 August 2021.
- News: 'Dapper Don' Christy Kinahan won't be worried about a charge of passport fraud, but the net is closing in on the cartel he built. 5 August 2022. Irish Independent.
- News: Two veteran Irish criminals, one vicious feud, two cold-blooded assassinations. Who's who in the Gang War. 5 August 2022. Irish Independent.
- News: Tyson Fury's promoter to sever all ties with boxing adviser Daniel Kinahan. Irish Mirror. Donagh. Corby. 12 April 2022. 5 August 2022.
- Web site: Christopher Kinahan, Jr. . 12 April 2022.
- News: 'He is an unusual celebrity': Colourful career of Estonian hitman foiled by gardaí. The Irish Times. 5 August 2022.
- News: The women who laundered cash for the Kinahan crime gang. RTÉ News and Current Affairs. 5 August 2022.
- https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/kinahan-cartel-lieutenant-bought-house-25317824 Dublin Live: Kinahan cartel lieutenant bought house with '8-year-old son’s chequebook'
- https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/ross-browning-is-the-kinahan-cartels-principal-man-in-ireland-cab-tells-court/1272696742.html Sunday World: MOB MILLIONS | Ross Browning is the Kinahan cartel’s ‘principal’ man in Ireland, CAB tells court
- https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/kinahan-boss-ross-browning-used-drug-mule-as-link-man-to-mr-flashys-gucci-gang-court-hears/1479744713.html Sunday World: CIVIL WAR | Kinahan boss Ross Browning used drug mule as ‘link man’ to Mr Flashy's Gucci Gang court hears
- https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/kinahan-cartels-irish-network-exposed-by-cab-in-case-against-gangster-ross-browning/1308235819.html Sunday World: ASSETS TARGETED | Kinahan cartel’s Irish network exposed by CAB in case against gangster Ross Browning
- https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/cab-case-against-kinahan-cartel-lieutenant-ross-browning-to-be-heard-in-october/41663546.html Sunday World: CRIME TARGET | CAB case against Kinahan cartel lieutenant Ross Browning to be heard in October
- https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/kinahan-cartel-lieutenant-ross-browning-puts-up-no-defence-in-cab-case/39981004.html Sunday World: CASE ADJOURNED | Kinahan Cartel lieutenant Ross Browning puts up no defence in CAB case
- https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/kinahan-cartel-member-ross-browning-and-associates-told-to-have-affidavits-before-the-high-court-by-december/39650324.html Sunday World: CAB CASE | Kinahan cartel member Ross Browning and associates told to have affidavits before the High Court by December
- https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/1021/1330674-cab-assets-court-latest/ RTÉ: Families of Kinahan gang member Ross Browning reject CAB claims at High Court
- Web site: Kinahan gunman Trevor Byrne arrested for SECOND time over Eddie Hutch feud killing . 9 April 2023.
- Web site: Student Lee Canavan who was part of Kinahan 'murder cell' jailed for life for Daithi Douglas killing . 3 June 2021.
- Web site: Bernard Patrick CLANCY . 11 April 2022.
- Web site: Kinahan Cartel manager Douglas 'Oscar' Glynn jailed for managing drugs warehouse . 16 March 2023.
- Web site: 'Complete loose cannon' - Kinahan's new enforcer 'causing terror' in capital . 14 November 2016.
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- Web site: Some Never learn? The Family in the car are so Lucky to be Alive, a Soft Sentence? . 14 March 2021.
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- News: Kinahan cartel boss Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh to appeal 21-year sentence as he looks for move to Irish prison. Irish Mirror. 5 August 2022.
- News: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh jailed for 21 years after Kinahan gang imported more than £30m in drugs into UK. Sky News. 5 August 2022.
- News: Profile: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh - the Kinahans' 'main man' in UK and a criminal career which began five decades ago in Dublin. Irish Independent. 5 August 2022.
- News: GANGLAND GODFATHER: Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh 'plotted' SEVEN Kinahan cartel murders including his two cousins. Sunday World. 5 August 2022.
- News: Thomas Kavanagh profile – Kinahan ally to UK drugs smuggler. The Irish Times. 5 August 2022.
- News: Senior Kinahan Group member Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh jailed in UK for 21 years . 2022-03-28 . 2022-03-28 . . Press Association.
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- News: POSSESSION: Kinahan Cartel 'footsoldier' gets three-month sentence for having cannabis in prison. Sunday World. 5 August 2022.
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