Daniel Kinahan

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A security breach is under investigation in Port Leach Prison after Daniel Kinahan managed to speak to his former landing mate Ali Mazidi in hospital after another prisoner got his room number added to his caller list.

Kinahan was in the gym with Mazidi last month when the Iranian took a heart attack and the alleged cartel boss helped keep him alive as medical assistance arrived.

Today I'm talking with Niall Donald about the phone call and how it happened.

Yeah, we used to do blundering criminals, didn't we? Yeah.

They were sort of the less violent ones, maybe.

But anyway, so cartel boss Daniel Kinahan ends up on the blower to his mate, whose life he saved, Ali Mazidi, who is recovering in hospital after having a massive heart attack in prison, in the gym.

That was... being used at the time by Daniel Kinahan, Nathan MacDonald and himself, and Mazzini went down, I think, a ton of bricks, and Kinahan was said to have worked very hard on him to keep his heart going.

not based right now.

You know, I have a one thing I might do at some point, if you feel like just if any, like if anybody wants this information, I do have within me a very, very deep rabbit hole into the involvement of the Saudi government, the American government, and um, a, the Kinahan Irish drug smuggling cartel, um, and the state of British boxing, because they are all inexplicably linked.

And this like Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua fight that's going to happen in December is so fascinating.

Cause like all of these things converge and like, there are little tidbits of information.

It is made just for me.

It's like, I love Anthony Joshua.

I'm interested in the Kinahan cartel law.

I'm interested in what's going on with Dana White trying to take over boxing.

I mean, it depends what you mean by organized criminal gangs.

We're not talking about the Kinahan cartels.

We're talking about people who are thieving to order, so professional kind of shoplifting gangs.

What a superb opportunity while the police are tucked up trying to manage protest to go looting.

But there is a big push here because there's been a lot of, they call them drug gangs.

Now my flag goes up a little with the Kinahan gangs that they talk about who were living in Spain.

I think that's just a ploy to have a world policing agency because all the different policing authorities got together in Europe and further afield to bring this Kinahan gang.

But there is most definitely a big problem with drugs gangs and drug deaths.

And I did do a few transcripts of poor mothers left to pay the debt and being threatened to firebomb the house and all the rest of it.

And that moment, of course, is another watershed moment that changes the Irish underworld this time and changes Irish society, I think really wakes the country up to the threat of narco-terrorism even more than just, you know, organised crime.

And of course, it is the well-documented Regency Hotel, the feud that breaks out between the Kinahan and Hutch factions in 2015 results in that moment in the Regency when a packed boxing weigh-in is attacked by men carrying and using AK-47s.

And the state, it lays down a marker to the state, really.

And the state stands up to fight back.

And amongst those actors that are there are the Criminal Assets Bureau.

And very, very quickly after the Regency, they immediately target what would be their first layer of organised crime groupings and really the Kinahan mob.

Yeah.

And it's the Burns.

But, um, yeah, a long-standing criminal and connected to a number of other serious criminals in the Clon- mainly in the Clondalkin area.

Yeah, I mean, I think he was associated with probably, uh, you know, associated with, uh, some of the Kinahan figures as well, um, associated with some of the, the, the established West Dublin gangs led by a guy we can't name 'cause he's before a courts, but actually operating independently, you know, and controlling his own network, and that network obviously continued to exist.

What do we know about the alleged thief and, and of his cocaine?

Yeah, so, um, it, it's, it's more, I suppose, um, the person that got targeted.

Here it is, here it is.

Inside that prison van is Daniel Kinahan, the alleged boss of the Irish Mafia.

This is a massive security operation outside the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, which is reserved for serious organised crime cases.

In this special episode, we tell the story of the Kinahan Cartel.

Welcome to the Crime Agents.

This is one of the most wanted men in the world.

The suspected crime boss, Daniel Kinahan, has just appeared in a court in Dublin after being extradited from Dubai, where he's lived for almost a decade.

Daniel Kinahan, probably one of the most high-profile, if not the most high-profile extradition case ever to take place here in Ireland.