Ken Foy

brings the whole thing a new emphasis to the whole investigation.

If they don't, will it slip into the background again?

Ken Foy, thank you very much.

Cheers.

Cheers.

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Yes, so in 2024, it was actually part of the first trawl of the arrests in relation to the breakdown of the ghosts, the...

encrypted network.

Yeah.

And in August 2024, Mr. Hand was arrested in an operation by Spanish police in which over 7 million euro worth of cocaine, 110 kilos of it, as well as a firearm and ammunition were seized.

It's understood, even though we're getting very little cooperation from the Spanish police in terms of what's actually happening with the case, it's understood he hasn't been sentenced in Spain yet, but is still in custody.

Yeah, I suppose why all this came up again, Niall, we would have covered the original seizure at the time, but at the time we didn't name Keelan Hand.

And he wasn't named either a number of weeks ago when there was a bail application by Brian Grendon, who was the alleged leader of the family gang.

He's been sent forward now with multiple charges to the special criminal court.

But anyway, within that bail application, a number of seizures, a number of successful law enforcement events were outlined.

But there was brief mention of this seizure in a warehouse at an undisclosed location in Spain where that huge haul of cocaine was found and a firearm and ammunition found.

were later discovered by Spanish police and the unnamed individual who we know as Keelan Hand was described as a logistics manager for the organised crime gang at that bail hearing by a senior detective.