Nicola Tallent

Images of Christy Kinahan and his son Daniel show the father and son enjoying a night out in Dubai last year.

The pictures show them relaxing and enjoying an MMA event in the VIP section, proving they are comfortable living in the UAE despite sanctions.

Today, I'm talking with Niall Donald about the Kinnahans and you're listening to Crime World, a podcast from crimeworld.com.

Right, we're recording, Niall, so could you take your headphones out of the iPad?

I've been researching, for goodness sake, I've been researching for the last 20 years of my bloody life.

Okay.

Guess who we're going to talk about?

Cartel leaders Daniel and Christy Kinnett.

Yeah.

And this story that has broken, this is a joint Sunday Times Bellingcat investigation, which is...

The story in it that Daniel and Christy Kinahan are in Dubai isn't really a story because we've known that, okay?

And there has been, other than their own pushing the narrative out there that they are no longer there...

we have been repeatedly assured they are there.

So that's not necessarily the story.

The story is how they got these, we'll go into a little bit of that first, I suppose, before we talk further about it, is how they got these pictures or how they recognised them at this public event

So it's during a mixed martial arts event last June, and they put pictures of associates of Daniel Kinahan into some AI tool, which is a facial recognition tool, and it threw back

some of these faces at this event along with others.

And then they went through this event and a video that lasted about five hours and recognised a guy in a Panama hat.

I want to talk about why he's still in that Panama hat.

So they have absolutely confirmed that Daniel Kinahan was there in the front row and they are pretty much sure the guy in the Panama hat is Christy, although he turns his head and puts his hand up whenever a camera is on him.