Man may have been killed for refusing to carry drug money

POLICE in Portugal are investigating whether a Cork drug dealer was murdered after he refused to deliver money to pay for a drug consignment.

Man may have been killed for refusing to carry drug money

It emerged yesterday that Michael ‘Danser’ Ahern, 38, was part of an Irish gang in the Algarve which was apparently trying to purchase a large quantity of cocaine from Spain.

Ahern was found dead in a large fridge in an apartment in the resort town of Albufeira last Friday. He had been badly beaten and shot a number of times in the head.

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