John Mooney

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Criminal · Five Stars · 7 Mar 2025 podcast

These turned out to be quite instrumental and important in terms of mapping out where he was travelling, but also on occasion, people that he was engaging with. So, for example, he would maybe book himself into a hotel. And we were able to identify other people that were in that vicinity at similar times and identify these people as being associates of Kinahan's.

And indeed, I think we identified a number of parties that are involved in his financial activities that I'm pretty sure the security services still don't know about.

I did explain that I did not like to be called boss and please could you call me Chris, Mr. Vincent or Sir. The waitress tittered. I thought nothing more of it until we were paying my bill. My friend was kind enough to pay the bill and were about to leave when the same waitress made a point of saying, thanks boss.

I was and I wasn't. I was a little bit taken aback that someone who was the subject of an international manhunt would carry a phone to begin with, because I thought he wouldn't carry a phone in case it could be used to track his movements. I was completely astonished that they would be taking images on that phone and uploading them onto Google. for anyone to see.

And I was both bemused and completely taken aback that they would accidentally photograph themselves in those same images that they were posting online. This is an individual who's one of the most wanted men on the planet. But still, he's just a man who makes mistakes.

And I always thought, and this is only a suspicion I have, but I do feel as if I know him, I always felt that he posted those reviews when he was bored and hanging around and someone was late, running late to meet him, that it was something like that.

I have identified and analyzed encrypted communications networks that the cartel have set up so that the key figures within it could communicate with each other securely. And they've spent lots of money building these secret networks, encrypted networks, to stop intelligence services snooping on their activities. And then he goes off

with a smartphone, opens up a Google account and starts posting images of himself at specific locations. He names these locations and starts taking a deep dive into the types of food he eats. his opinions of various matters. I mean, one of the most incredible things that he posted on Google was a review of Dubai's immigration service after he had had his residency card reissued.

That actually proved that the Emirates knew he was there and they could no longer pretend or deny that they knew that this wanted man was in their jurisdiction. That turned into a very big story in Ireland because the Emirates had been insisting that we're taking every action against him.

But I don't know many fugitives who wander in to immigration services and have their residency permits reissued when they're among the most wanted people on the planet.

I suspect that when Bellingcat and the Sunday Times began publishing these reviews, I think there was probably a degree of horror there. at what had happened. I think there was probably even a greater sense of horror when they discovered that they couldn't take down the reviews and delete them and delete their accounts.

We believe that they had set up two factor authentication on that particular account. But the big problem that they had was that the email address that they had used to create the accounts was actually gone because it had been tied and created using a defunct website.

So when they were trying to gain access to that Google account, they couldn't do that because the two step authentication, which involves sending an email to the account used to create the Google account, was now gone. So they were kind of caught in this situation where they had to leave all of this content, including photographs. and locations online for everyone to sift through.

And I think his sons in the back of their minds would have known that every security service in Europe would be pouring over these reviews and using them to, I suppose, trace, you know, collate information on them. And we still don't know how many puzzles were solved by... the disclosure of that information.

Their organisation is very durable. I don't know how many times I've interviewed senior police officers who've told me that Kynan is about to be arrested and extradited, that the cartel is about to implode or that something else is about to happen. And yet they're still there.

So could I use this opportunity to once again extend that invitation to Christopher Kinahan?

And his sons. And I've no doubt they will listen to this podcast and they'll listen to this episode of Criminal.

I've no doubt that Christopher Kenan or one of his associates will listen to this podcast. This guy monitors all media and radio shows and podcasts that are broadcast about him. I know that they have contemplated at certain times doing an interview to set out their position. If I ever got the chance or the opportunity to meet him and interview him, I think I'd ask him, how did he do this?

Most criminal groups implode because their hierarchy and their leaderships turn on each other. They implode because they try to transition into legitimate industry and put their criminal activities behind them or they're imprisoned. And none of those scenarios really fit Kinahan.

I'd also like to know if there are areas of this that have been misinterpreted, that maybe there were other dynamics going on within the family, within the organisation. But he's the only person that can really tell that story. And so far, he's chosen to remain silent on that.

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