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Who is Christopher Kinahan and why is he significant?
Christopher Kinahan is probably the most successful and entrepreneurial criminal that Ireland has ever produced. He is currently a billionaire. He controls much of the cocaine trade in Europe. It could be argued that he is one of the most prolific criminals that Europe has ever produced.
John Mooney is an investigative journalist with the Sunday Times in Dublin. He reports on organized crime.
How did Christopher Kinahan build his criminal empire?
In the 1980s, Ireland witnessed the arrival of drugs, and that came in the form of heroin, which caused havoc to inner-city communities. Kennehan was someone who was involved in this business, but wasn't at the pinnacle or the apex of it. At the time, he was employed as a taxi driver, but he appeared to be wholesaling heroin. He wasn't a street dealer. He was supplying drugs to people who did operate at street level.
But over the years, Christopher Kinahan began to build a large criminal organization called the Kinahan Cartel.
Not a lot of people would have known his name unlike other serious criminals from that time who had reputations that preceded them and often featured in newspapers and in the tabloids and in, you know, local folklore in certain parts of the city. They liked the notoriety of being photographed and filmed and and having their names and reputations covered in the tabloid press in particular. But Kinahan was very different. He kind of kept himself to himself. He shunned publicity. No one really knew a lot about him.
Christopher Kinahan has been described as photo-weary. There aren't many photos of him online or in newspapers.
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