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A view of the Regency Hotel in Dublin following the 2016 shooting (Brian Lawless\/PA)<\/p>\nThe arrest of Daniel Kinahan is the latest stage in a lengthy law enforcement operation which has spanned continents.<\/p>\n
The alleged crime boss has previously been named in the High Court in Dublin as a head of an international drug cartel.<\/p>\n
Born in 1977 in Dublin, he is the eldest son of Christy Kinahan, alleged to be the founder of his family\u2019s criminal operation.<\/p>\n
In 2015, the Kinahan cartel became involved in a feud with the rival Hutch crime gang in Ireland, which was to claim the lives of 18 people.<\/p>\n
A view of the Regency Hotel in Dublin following the 2016 shooting (Brian Lawless\/PA)<\/p>\n
David Byrne, an associate of the Kinahan cartel, was shot dead by members of the Hutch gang at a boxing weigh-in in 2016.<\/p>\n
Garda\u00ed have always believed the intended target was Daniel Kinahan.<\/p>\n
After that, Kinahan left Ireland, first to go to the Costa Del Sol and later settling in Dubai.<\/p>\n
He was identified in the High Court in Dublin as a senior figure who \u201ccontrolled and managed\u201d the operations of the\u00a0Kinahan\u00a0organised crime group.<\/p>\n
The international crime syndicate was alleged to have been involved in the smuggling of drugs and guns into Ireland, the UK and Europe.<\/p>\n
Kinahan drew further scrutiny when it was revealed he played a role in organising an aborted heavyweight fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n
Kinahan\u00a0claimed to have stepped away from boxing after the controversy that followed.<\/p>\n
In 2022, US authorities issued a reward of up to five million dollars for his arrest.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0US\u00a0treasury department imposed sanctions against senior members of the\u00a0Kinahan\u00a0crime gang, including Christy\u00a0Kinahan\u00a0Snr and his sons\u00a0Daniel\u00a0and Christopher Jnr.<\/p>\n
While Kinahan left Ireland years ago, the investigation by gardai continued.<\/p>\n
They recently secured a warrant for his arrest in the High Court in Dublin.<\/p>\n
This was sent to the Dubai police as part of a bilateral agreement.<\/p>\n
Officers there launched \u201cintensive search and surveillance operations\u201d, which led to Kinahan\u2019s arrest this week.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson said: \u201cDubai Public Prosecution issued an arrest warrant to initiate legal procedures ahead of his extradition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The arrest of Daniel Kinahan is the latest stage in a lengthy law enforcement operation which has spanned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-404912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}