Gang supplied drugs and guns across Europe

THE Kinahan gang operated an “international” drug and gun trafficking operation and a “global investment service” laundering “hundreds of millions” of euro for some of Europe’s biggest gangs, including his own.

Christy Kinahan left Dublin around 10 years ago to escape increasing attention by the Garda National Drugs Unit (GNDU) on both him and his partner in crime, John Cunningham.

Kinahan, now 53, originally from Cabra in Dublin’s north inner city, had already served significant time in Irish prisons, for both drug trafficking and financial crime, and had established major contacts in the criminal world.