The beginning of the end for Ireland's billionaire crime family?
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The Times
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🗓️ 22 June 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
For almost two decades the Kinahans have operated one of the most powerful criminal organisations in the world. Now, they’ve been named as some of America’s “most wanted” and people who've been associated with them, such as Tyson Fury, are being refused entry to the US. What action have the authorities taken and can they be stopped?
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| 0:00.0 | It was an announcement that caught the room by surprise. |
| 0:09.0 | The United States Department of State is pleased to announce a reward of up to $5 million |
| 0:18.1 | for information leading to the financial disruption of the KTCO or the arrest and convictions |
| 0:26.0 | of its leaders. |
| 0:27.5 | The Kinahin Trans National Crime Organization is a billion dollar criminal gang with its |
| 0:33.3 | roots in Dublin, sanctioned for links with international terror organizations. |
| 0:39.0 | The Kinahins are very unusual and I would regard them as almost unique. |
| 0:45.0 | They have managed to attain a status that I haven't previously encountered with organized |
| 0:51.8 | crime gangs. |
| 0:52.8 | They're really like a James Bond villain at this stage. |
| 0:57.4 | Who are they? |
| 0:58.4 | How did they get so big? |
| 1:00.1 | And what will happen now they've been sanctioned? |
| 1:07.1 | You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times. |
| 1:10.6 | I'm Callum MacDonald sitting in for Manvine Rana. |
| 1:13.6 | Today, the Kinahins, the crumbling of a billionaire crime family. |
| 1:27.0 | That's the kind of story that, like me, you might have missed, but believe me, when |
| 1:31.0 | we get into this, you are going to be fascinated. |
| 1:35.3 | In April, sanctions were imposed on three members of a family who run a gang, said to be worth |
| 1:40.2 | over a billion dollars, linked with international drug trafficking, money laundering, murder, |
| 1:47.0 | and terrorist organizations. |
| 1:50.2 | Announcing the sanctions in Dublin, the US government revealed its targeted the family |
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