John Mooney
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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And he undertook various educational courses. He completed a degree. He learned to speak various languages. I understand he was a voracious reader while inside. And he read everything from economics to history to criminology and any other material he could lay his hands on.
The prison authorities regarded him as a model prisoner. He never got involved in squabbles inside the prison. He was very courteous to prison guards, stayed out of trouble. I remember interviewing a paramilitary who served time alongside him, and he told me the story of seeing a fight or riot break out in the prison.
And he recalled seeing Kinahan standing at the door of a cell, watching chairs being flung at different people and weapons being produced and people being assaulted and attacked, including prison officers. And he distinctly remembered Kinahan watching this and going back into a cell and not participating in any of it.
I've interviewed and spoken to lots of people who have been in close proximity to him and have spent time with him. They all say that he turns himself out quite well. And one particular man who knew him quite well often told me that when he got up in the morning, he reminded him of a peacock that liked to strut around.
He often, for example, would walk around in a towel after having a shower, spraying himself with various scents. That's not something that Irish men would do, but he did it. And he would often talk about how he was looking after himself health-wise.
So they grew up with their mum in Dublin and they had not a lot of contact with him until they reached their teens. But I understand that their mum felt that she could no longer control them because they were continuously trying to emulate him and they traded on his reputation. It appears that they were sent off to live with him in their late teens
So they both became involved in the drugs business, and they became senior figures within the organization.
And I understand from police officers that have raided their homes that he would always be super polite when search warrants were being executed.
And he was actually very successful on that. And he became an advisor to some top boxing personalities in the world.
They wanted to send a message to organized crime in Ireland that they were the big fish and no one could get in their way.
And the Irish authorities had never experienced anything like this. These people were gunning down people on the streets of Dublin. And the Irish public were both horrified and intrigued by this all at the same time.
The powers that be here realized that they really couldn't stop this because it was being directed from the United Arab Emirates. So the police started engaging with the United States and other European law enforcement agencies to try to have something done about this and action taken against them.
You must remember, these are individuals with colossal wealth. I mean, more wealth than most people could imagine.
It prevents any bank that conducts business with the United States or entities of the United States or its representatives from engaging with that sanctioned entity. For example, it prevented Christie Kinahan from running companies with his own name on them. So it stopped banks from trading, from having bank accounts for these companies. from offering them financial services.
Remember one person saying to me that when you're sanctioned by the US, it also prevents you, say, from buying an airline ticket or, you know, having a credit card or conducting any sort of online financial transactions. It's supposed to and designed to destroy your legitimate finances. So it makes... It's very awkward to have a normal life.
Now, it should be stated that not every country in the world enforces US sanctions, but certainly most in the Western Hemisphere do.
We spent months and months and months looking at social media profiles and working back from the Google reviews that we had identified.
We would stay up quite late at night looking through social media posts, searching for images of the Kinnans who had disappeared from public view. Certainly Christy Kinnan, no one had seen him in years.
And we had searched and searched and searched. And lo and behold, in the back of an image that the restaurant itself had uploaded online on its Instagram account, was an image of Christopher Kinahan and his son, Christopher Jr., having lunch. And that image became almost infamous because it was the first one to... show that the Kinneans were living openly in Dubai. They were living quite freely.
And publication of that image really shocked a lot of people on this side of the world because there was an impression being created that these people were moving from location to location in fear of arrest and possible extradition. And they were just having lunch.
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