Ireland’s top drug trafficker arrested in Spain

IRELAND’S number one drug trafficker and his right-hand man are under arrest after a spectacular police operation across three European countries.

The operation was aimed at smashing Christy Kinahan’s global money laundering service, with British police estimating “hundreds of millions of pounds of dirty cash” was invested by his network for criminal gangs in offshore accounts and properties.

Europol, the EU police agency, said his “extensive criminal network” was involved in commercial and financial transactions in South America, Africa and the Far East.