{"id":411350,"date":"2026-04-22T07:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411350\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:13:09","slug":"the-indo-daily-daniel-kinahans-secret-alias-how-gardai-tracked-bon-linked-to-irish-murder-plots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411350\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indo Daily: Daniel Kinahan\u2019s secret alias? How Gardai tracked \u2018Bon\u2019 linked to Irish murder plots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/85bccbde-2d3a-44a4-bfbf-b58e7f826e4e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The law has finally caught up with crime boss Daniel Kinahan, who is now awaiting extradition from the UAE after a decade on the run. The man at the center of the deadly Kinahan-Hutch feud is sitting in a Dubai jail cell, facing the prospect of trial in Dublin\u2019s Special Criminal Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The 48-year-old gang leader is wanted in this country to face a string of organised-crime charges which, on conviction, could lead to him spending the rest of his life behind bars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Irish Independent can reveal that this includes a plot to murder Gerry \u2018The Monk\u2019 Hutch in Lanzarote, Spain, on December 31, 2015, with Kinahan alleged to have been in direct contact with a hit team dispatched to kill his arch rival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Evidence was also previously given in the prosecution of several cartel criminals who conspired to murder senior Hutch associate James \u2018Mago\u2019 Gately in April 2017. Estonian hitman Imre Arakas had been in contact with a number of individuals on an encrypted messaging app on a Blackberry device in the days before his arrest in west Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">They were helping him in identifying Gately and his Belfast hideout. One of the conspirators used the handle \u2018Bon\u2019, which garda\u00ed have always suspected was an alias Kinahan operated under, with the Gately murder plot also expected to form part of the case against him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Today on the Indo Daily Fionn\u00e1n Sheahan is joined by Irish Independent Security Correspondent Robin Schiller and Bellingcat researcher Connor Plunkett to explore Daniel Kinahan\u2019s hidden alias, and what fate may await the notorious cartel leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The law has finally caught up with crime boss Daniel Kinahan, who is now awaiting extradition from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":["post-411350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411350","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=411350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}