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Inside the Kinahan crime cartel and their €1 billion empire

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The Times

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3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Christy Kinahan is the former Dublin taxi driver who heads the world’s most wanted international gang. John Mooney, who has been pursuing Christy and his gang for a decade, considers if the net is finally closing in.

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Guest: John Mooney, Investigative Reporter, The Sunday Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

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expensively dressed, he has the air of a suave international banker.

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He describes himself as a business consultant, but in reality

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he heads the world's most wanted international gang.

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When you stand back and you look at him and you see past that facade, he's a ruthlessly dangerous man.

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He is like the ultimate James Bond villain.

1:54.6

Christie Kinnaham began by stealing cars in Dublin,

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