The manhunt intensifies for Tyson Fury’s former advisor and Irish boxing promoter Daniel Kinahan, as a whopping $15 million bounty and the promise of witness protection are laid out to coax insiders into turning against him.
Accused of leading the notorious Kinahan cartel – and deemed one of the world’s largest organized crime syndicates – Kinahan previously coordinated fights for Fury.
The group’s prominence has been further spotlighted following the Dubai arrest of key figure Sean McGovern—a trusted agent within the gang under European Arrest Warrant for over two years. He’s sought by Irish authorities in relation to the murder of 62-year-old Noel ‘Duck Egg’ Kirwan in 2016, and other crimes.
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris is now pressing other close associates of 47-year-old Kinahan to step forward and nab the $15 million reward put forth by the U.S. Department of State in April 2022 for information leading to convictions of Kinahan, his sibling Christopher Jr, and patriarch Christy Sr.
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Commissioner Harris emphasized that the U.S. would also extend its witness protection program to those willing to betray their mob bosses, asserting, “We’ve always said we’re resolute and relentless in the pursuit of those individuals.
“They’re Irish nationals – the Kinahan organised crime group have created misery around the world, they’ve been involved in very serious criminality, and they are a murderous gang of drug dealers, and so therefore then, they are one of our main objectives in terms of law enforcement.
“I would speak then to, unusually perhaps, other members of the Kinahan organised crime gang. They should look about them, they should see what is happening here, and they should remember that there is $15m with US federal law enforcement and the US federal protection scheme is open, and they should consider that.
Alleged Irish crime boss Daniel Kinahan parted ways with MTK before it ceased operations (
Irish Mirror)
“They should consider their own future given, as you say, the progress and the ingress that we are making into the Kinahan organised crime gang collectively. Not just us, but also other partners, be it the National Crime Agency (NCA), Europol or US federal law-enforcement counterparts.”
McGovern had fled to Dubai in April 2017 after being arrested and later released as part of the Garda investigation. He now faces criminal proceedings in the United Arab Emirates, with it hoped he’ll be extradited back to Ireland to face charges.
Kinahan, though, remains a free man. He co-founded promotion MTK Global with Irish boxer Matthew Macklin in 2012, going on to sign the likes of Fury and Darren Till. Kinahan was said to have parted ways with them in 2017. MTK Global ceased operations in 2022.
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