Kinahan hitman Imre Arakas’ boss busted in police phone hack
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Who is Sergejus Beglikas and why is he called the wheelchair‑bound mafia boss?
The boss of a Lithuanian mob on the Costodel crime is set to go on trial, sensationally accused of making hundreds of millions stealing drugs and hiring out a network of hitmen, including Imre Arakis, who was arrested in Ireland. Wheelchair bound Sergius Beglikus may seem an unlikely mafia boss, but police will say he was a kingpin of Marbella, who provided killers for mobs. including the Kinahan Mafia. I'm talking with Niall Donald and you're listening to Crimeworld, a podcast from Crimeworld.com. Now, when you picture about uh you know, when you picture a guy who would be the head of a big drugs mob and what was earlier described as kind of a group of freelance contract killers Living on the costa, you do imagine something slightly different to
This boy.
Yeah.
Yeah. Sergeus begli
Peglic
of us. No, there's no V Sergeus. Big lick up. Meglic ass, I doubt. We'll just call him Sergeus for the moment, okay? Um we're not doing too well with that. Anyway, he was arrested some years ago, around the time we were doing a lot of work around Imre Arrakis, who had been arrested in Ireland on the way to kill James Mago Gately on behalf of Daniel Kinehan and the Kinehan Grouping. Um the details of that. came out during Sean McGovern's sentence hearing and are likely to be part of the state's case against Daniel Kinnehan. And Imre Arrakis was this very colourful character with a very colourful past, who had come into Ireland posing as a fisherman, um, and had been followed eve the story even in Ireland was quite sensational.
But in the aftermath, uh, his boss was photographed on the costa in a wheelchair because he's been a paraplegic for uh it's certainly a couple of decades, I think, is it? Since the 70s, a car crash. Uh, and sitting posing with the Sphinx cat, those baldy cats, like kind of from James Bond. I mean, Imre Arrakis looked very James Bond villainy anyway. Yeah. Um, but Sergius looked like completely straight out of the movies.
Straight out.
How did Imre Arakas pose as a fisherman and get caught in Ireland?
I mean even the cat of course is I don't know why bald cats are sinister. But
are they they're I don't think they're sinister, do you think they're sinister? Or a little bit sinister. They're kind of a bit um
not taking Austin Parisi. Well, okay. Comically sinister then maybe? Yeah. But so he this guy um was accused of of really heading up an international transnational crime gang as they call it that was primarily based in Lithuania but effectively run from from the costa. They the Lithuanian uh criminal organizations are actually have become a big big players in in in s that part of Spain. Um there seems to be a number of them operating like like I suppose Irish gangs, they probably are outsized in terms of their influence in the criminal underworld relative to the size of the country. M and of course yes he he was he was arrested as part of this major operation targeting this alleged network. Yeah. And when he was arrested
Which of course we're maybe getting more more used to people doing. He uh unlike normally where they hide their heads and say nothing, he invited in a local newspaper to do an interview. Um and at the time he said uh he posed in his wheelchair with his cat. Do you want to know what the cat was called? What was the cat called? Phoenix. Phoenix Al. And he said, No, how can I lead an international gang in my personal situation?
Yeah.
Pointing to pointing to the wheelchair, saying, How how do I do it? I insist, I am not an angel, but I do not traffic with drugs nor send anyone to murder. I deserve to go my family wherever I please. And of course he says this in in in this living in this four million euro villa, which was how it was described with a big swimming pool and sort of, you know, studying architecture. And Phoenix.
And like the the thing is now the courts in Lithuania are going to say exactly the opposite because they are going to he's he's been extradited to there,
yeah,
where he's going to face trial. We believe along with him, Ray Arakas, for the murder of a guy called Demantis Bogovicus, who's always been nicknamed and referred to as Diamond.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Sergejus Beglikas and why is he called the wheelchair‑bound mafia boss?
0:03–2:28
2
How did Imre Arakas pose as a fisherman and get caught in Ireland?
2:28–4:44
3
What was the “Diamond” murder and how did it link the Lithuanian mob to Irish gangs?
4:44–7:11
4
Why did the police monitor Arakas from Dublin Airport to his arrest in Blanchardstown?
7:11–10:00
5
How did a pop‑star relationship expose the murder of Diamond?
10:00–12:14
6
What role did the encrypted “Matrix” network play in the investigation?
12:14–14:14
7
Why did Sergejus Beglikas’ extradition attempts keep failing?
14:14–16:30
8
What is the significance of the upcoming Lithuanian gang trial and its connection to the Kinahan cartel?
16:30–17:51
Speakers
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