Robin Schiller
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And then the other aspect taken into account is, will there be consecutive sentences?
And, you know, Sean McGovern is such a high-profile criminal involved in
real horrendous violence on the streets of not just Dublin, but, you know, wider around Ireland, Mead as well, a person was shot dead in Spain.
It's very, very likely that he could be facing a consecutive sentence and, you know, he could be facing around 20 years in jail, if not more.
It'll have to have some kind of impact.
Daniel Kinnan was the day-to-day director of operations.
He effectively took control of that gang from his father several years ago.
It's a crime group that's worth around 1.5 billion by some estimates.
That being said, it's just too big of a machine to fall by two significant prosecutions, albeit they are major ones.
contingency plans were being put in place you've other people still in Dubai who are high profile high level criminals there are still high level people at the very apex of that organisation who can take over the reins there might be some you know impacting their operations for a period of time but it's just too big a machine to fail and
Unfortunately, that entire organisation won't come down until that entire leadership structure is taken down by, and not just Gardaí, international help is needing that as well.
You have the Americans involved, Dubai Police, Dutch Police as well, the UK's National Crime Agency.
So it really is a kind of collective effort that's needed to bring down the entire organisation by bringing down that leadership.