People involved in Kinahan gang were paid €20k for 'setting up a hit', court hears

During today's sentence hearing for Michael Burns, Ciaran O'Driscoll and Stephen Curtis, evidence was given that gardaí recovered a written record of the gang's financial expenditure from a suspect's address

Large sums of money were made available to murder people and those involved in the Kinahan organised crime group were paid €20,000 for "setting people up for a hit", the Special Criminal Court was told today.

The non-jury court also heard that audio surveillance of a conversation between a woman and one of the suspects involved in a plot to murder Patrick 'Patsy' Hutch picked up references to "they have so much money, they could buy half the Hutch lads" and "they're getting €20,000 and all for setting somebody up, used to get that for doing the hit".