The Kinahan organised crime group continues to be one of the biggest threats to law and order in Ireland, according to the head of the European anti-drugs smuggling agency. Michael O’Sullivan, who until 2017 was a Garda assistant commissioner, heads up the Lisbon-based Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre (Maoc). In recent years Maoc has led operations seizing cocaine worth several billion euro coming in on ships from South America. Mr O’Sullivan was speaking following the news that the gang’s leader, Daniel Kinahan, has helped broker a much-anticipated boxing match between heavyweights Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua. Mr O’Sullivan said the Kinahan gang “is one of the most prominent, if not the most prominent, organised group affecting Ireland”.

Source: The Irish Times June 13, 2020 00:00 UTC