Niall
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attempts to leave Dubai to move further afield over a number of years.
Now, they're failed attempts to date, but nonetheless, he has seen this next wave of law enforcement coming.
They know it's coming.
There is absolutely no doubt that not only have they been trying to transfer as much of their money
and assets into crypto, which is far less likely to be seized.
But they have also made plans for succession of sorts.
So there is somebody there who will be in the background, who will have been groomed and ready to come up to take over the organization.
I think it's going to take more than the arrest and bringing Daniel Kinahan home to end the Kinahan reign.
They have become really over the past few decades a monster, not equating them to the Sinaloa cartel, which is a bigger and a totally different structure in that it has remained within its native country, which is so violent and has a totally different history.
But nonetheless, you can see how difficult it is
It's like trying to kill a cockroach.
And probably more focused on Spain, where we have this vast money laundering investigation ongoing.
Is there a suggestion that the Lions group had merged in with the Kinahan cartel?
In the same way, had they become the sort of the Scottish franchise of them?
Because that's what it sort of is looking like.
And of course, in the past, Christopher Jr.
during Operation Shovel in 2010 was named as the sort of the successor on the money laundering side of things.
The structure that was drawn up was...
Daniel was the kind of successor for the crime, for the drugs, the weapons and whatever else was involved.
And Kinahan Jr.