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And was lifted in, was it Bahrain he was picked up in?
He's presumably kicked out of Dubai to Bali in the first place in a way.
And this happened with other members of that organization last year where they were being deported because they had run out of their rope.
They had no residential permits.
They weren't there legally and they were deported from Dubai and they were asked where they'd like to go.
And some of them went to Turkey.
And was Stephen Lyons involved in that first round of it?
Well, Miss Sterling has said that the cartel chief would, as a matter of course, have been incarcerated in the notorious Dubai Central Prison, also known as Al-Aweir, following his arrest.
And she said that there's a lot
has been a lot of pressure applied by Western countries on Dubai, which was accused of basically harboring international criminals.
And the UAE was suffering as a consequence of that.
The UAE was constantly under threat that they were going to be placed on a financial blacklist.
So it has been trying to clean up its reputation in that regard.
And in return for doing so, the UAE has been signing treaties with various countries and extraditing a lot more people.
Yeah, which we were always, I mean, the government and the GardaΓ always remained convinced that they would have him back and he would be before the special criminal court.
Now, so we know a bit about what is in that file and what the state are going to allege against him.
I think most importantly, the next big thing to watch is next week when Sean McGovern's sentence hearing occurs.
Should it not be put off for any particular reason.