Christy Kinahan Snr could end up in the new hub of organised crime - Turkey
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Chris Kinahan Sr. and his wife, Nessie Yildirim, could seek refuge in Turkey as they pack up and leave the United Arab Emirates, no longer welcome to visas or residential status. Today, I'm talking with Niall Donald about Kinahan and the retirement he can look forward to. You're listening to Crime World, a podcast from crimeworld.com. I've been talking to quite a few people in relation to the prospects for Chris Kinahan Sr. You know, trying to work out what is going to happen and where he might go. We spoke briefly last week in relation to him. We spoke about places like Iran, Russia, etc. The attitude seems to be that he's not wanted for anything in Europe. Europe. And even if he was, if there was a kind of a small charge there in relation to a passport, fake passport or anything like that, he could quite happily do a couple of years sitting in prison.
He's done it before. It wouldn't bother him. He'd bide his time. He'd get out. He's not wanted anywhere. And has he got the goal? Would he have the ability to move back to Europe, to stay in Europe or the UK? He has a UK passport, obviously. would he be too much of a celebrity? Or do you think that's something
that might be on the cards for him? Well, I think there was a feeling that he's not wanted in any jurisdiction. And that includes, I think, the US. That we know of. That we know of, right? So there's not an active warrant out for him anywhere. The passport is being mentioned because he was linked. Look, he has had fake passports. in the last number of years. And he was certainly linked to a passport that was bought from an organized crime gang in the UK that was basically getting addicts to put their names forward. So, Christy Kinahan, you know, there is, as you said, people have said, well, he may go to the UK because he's deep roots in there. He lived there for a number of years in the early 2000s. He went to school there.
He's lived there a large, a decent portion of his life. And the other talk was, I suppose, that not only would he, look, he's never going to be sitting down doing interviews like his son or anything of that type, but that he isn't, He isn't automatically bothered by being in the newspapers at this point in his life.
He's a peculiar character because he could live anywhere. He could start afresh anywhere. He doesn't feel the need for those ties or connections or anything. At the same time, I think he's always been very private in as much as he can within that world. Although since really 2000, he has been one of the most sought after criminals, certainly by Europe around those years. He retires in 2015. Yeah. And he's on the cartel pension since then. He's not involved in any of the criminality between 2015, 17, 18, which is really what's caused the trouble. Yes. For his son, Daniel, and for others. Um... But like, could Christy Kinahan seriously bed down in, you know, leafy Surrey and wander in and out of the supermarkets with the Panama hat on and, you know, go about his business and not be approached and not be absolutely recognisable?
Well, I suppose it's much, much harder in the modern world. Like, let's be, let's be honest. to become anonymous in somewhere like England. But if you think of people like John Traynor, for example, I mean, John Traynor was one of the most notorious criminals of his generation. He was a sidekick of John Gilligan, but had also been linked to various other criminals as well. And he had fled Ireland after the murder of Veronica Gearan and became, I suppose, that most wanted fugitive. But he did manage to sort of settle in the UK totally quietly for a decade until he was tracked by the Sunday World. So... And there are other criminals, of course, in the UK. There's a guy... Gilligan you're talking about? No, John Traynor.
Oh, John
Traynor. Oh, excuse me, sorry.
Yeah, yeah. I thought you
were talking about Gilligan. No. Yeah, he did in Margate, but I mean, he was living in a very... Traynor was living in a very... Was he that really well-known or wanted or... I mean, it
didn't... No, he wasn't to the scale of Christy Kinnan.
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