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00:00.
00:03This is cold, I got Gatorade and green tea in here.
00:07Makes me feel like a crazy man.
00:12I'm Jack Kelly, I'm a retired Special Agent
00:15from the Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA.
00:19The Kinnahans are in my news feed.
00:22I'm following everything.
00:24I was reading about the Kinnahans and the war they had with the Hutts,
00:28कि πραγμαता अ हुच्ा. ल automated doesn't
00:30अप्षमि के कले कि. अष्ट हैंग !
00:35बिधन अब के अदेगा अब्ली यह चुट्स्वा कि
00:40ध्युट अब्सक्रार सराम के लडियरू
00:43सुट्स्वा हैं ल वूबत अबएा इन बुबाइंगे,
00:47इसेते हैं अच्छों मैंने
00:50I am what good is it and then he decides to get into boxing promotion just after
00:56getting off the phone with Daniel Kinahan the biggest fight in British
00:59boxing history has just been agreed now everyone knows who the Kinahan's are
01:06the dude was becoming the shiny object these cops all over the world and they
01:11want to be the guy to get that head up on their wall it's their ego it always
01:18springs of death
01:36the Kinahan transnational criminal organization also known as the KTCO has
01:45been accused of a wide range of heinous crimes all around the world including
01:52murder trafficking and firearms and narcotics we begin with breaking news
02:00today a drug boss to the port of Philadelphia what you see here is only a
02:05quarter of the total seizure it was thirty nine thousand five hundred and
02:10twenty four pounds of cocaine valued at about 1.3 billion dollars
02:15bingo the Kinahan's were street dealers who became billionaires
02:23when you see the DEA are on their case you're up there with the most wanted globally
02:39you're in the league of Pablo Escobar Chapo Guzman they come a long way the United States Department of State is pleased to announce a reward of up to five million dollars for information leading to the financial disruption of the KTCO or the arrest and convictions of its leaders Christopher Vincent Kinahan
03:08the United States will bring their leaders to justice no matter where they are
03:15the United States will bring their leaders to justice no matter where they are
03:22the United States will bring their leaders to justice no matter where they are
03:27the United States will bring their leaders to justice no matter where they are
03:30the United States will bring their leaders to justice no matter where they are
03:34the United States will bring their leaders to justice no matter where they are
03:35the United States will bring their leaders to justice no matter where they are
03:37the United States will bring their leaders to justice no matter where they are
03:38the United States will bring their leaders to justice no matter where they are
03:40the United States will bring their leaders to justice no matter where they are
03:41कर दो कर दो कर दो
04:11कर दो कर दो कर दो
04:41वे वोट हो अजसे love you
04:52is on the line
04:53he's general manager of what's now known as the Bonington hotel
04:57it obviously was the Regency hotel
05:00there was hardly a day when the name Regency was not in the newspapers or on
05:05radio television known as the Regency shooting the Regency killing the
05:09कि अम्छी आगए... उनारे killing साहूigkeit
05:14वहाँ चाहँ पुटालोगा को कि अचैज़ीजी कि अच।ोग गोग को पो
05:18फिर एिएуется कि अrzy Hी
05:31इस अच्टासितोगाइ यिंचीBayee लेन इन तर्साड़ इन स्टकुर사
05:33प PSYCा अम्छीनों सेरी
05:35मैं और इली के dob 얼마나 बा elevate
05:38We were assigned to cover the Boxing Weigh-In
05:42which was taking place at then the Regency Hotel
05:50which was involving MGM Boxers,
05:54which was run by Daniel Kinahan.
05:57He was trying to show himself as a different character
06:00to what was being portrayed in the media as a gangster.
06:05He comes across as a very personable type of guy
06:08प्लिट सक्किन है
06:10�ςको कहाे दिया आया स्टिव कर आया इपbij की बटेकिन
06:16तेर है लावार इप सरी आवी कानिव,
06:18यह आवीम घास्सें
06:28व बुलिंषी
06:34इस पामन में जब डडर।
06:37that was a chance of something happening.
06:50My name is Mel Christel,
06:52I am currently the Charmer of the Boxing Union of Ireland.
06:57Clash of the Clans was a major international promotion,
07:02it was a sellout.
07:04On an official level, there was no problem back in 2016 with MGM, save for what was being written in the tabloids.
07:19But, I mean, we're not fools. There's no smoke without fire.
07:25But turning up for the weigh-in on that day, there was absolutely nothing untoward to be felt or seen.
07:38As we drove in, we didn't see anything that we recognised.
07:48So it was kind of a bit flat, atmosphere-wise, to be honest.
07:54We were almost at the end of having weighed in 18 fighters. A fighter from Mayo, his weight had been declared, and I was in the process of converting pounds to kilos.
08:23When all hell broke loose.
08:30We were sitting there probably just talking shite like you do, and suddenly a bang went off.
08:49It sounded like gunshot. But, of course, we didn't actually believe that that could be happening at an international boxing weigh-in in the middle of the day in a hotel full of people.
09:03We no more had the words out of our mouth when I noticed people running across the top of the street in panic.
09:09And I just quickly realised that that's exactly what was going on.
09:12There was a male dressed in a skirt and a long wig beside a middle-aged gentleman wearing a flat cap, and it was one or both of those who had fired shots at the back of the hall.
09:39There were clicky kids there, and now they were part of a war zone.
09:58I don't know.
09:59Within seconds of that bang was just people started flying by. There was people in cars mounting footpaths up here. They were just all getting out wherever they could.
10:11We immediately shot out. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. There was more shooting.
10:18I was in the hotel bar with the general manager of the hotel running through the business for the weekend.
10:25There was a couple of shots fired. Within then maybe 15 seconds, three uniformed guardee came in to the bar area and told everyone that this is the guardee to lie down on the floor and put your hands behind your head.
10:44At this point, I was starting to panic. I really didn't believe these guys were guards.
10:48I heard two gunshots and two gunmen dressed up in guardee uniform came in through the front door into the lobby. One guy was running through the lobby. He just shot him in the leg.
10:57I jumped straight over the receptionist desk. The gunman then leaned over the receptionist desk and was pointing the gun down at me. I was screaming, don't shoot, don't shoot. I thought I was going to tell you. It was utterly terrifying.
11:10There was a couple of shots fired. Then just through a window in the bar, I saw a man basically getting assassinated.
11:18It's all happening so quickly. You're hearing gunshots going off. You're trying to understand where they're coming from.
11:31And as we approached here, we noticed the silver van. A window was open and a hand popped out with a machine gun.
11:40I stopped the car immediately, grabbed the camera, and as I pulled it up to shoot, something running, movement from down the end of the road caught my eye.
11:51And it was a person running towards us, which didn't look right.
11:58And I immediately switched from the car, banged off a number of frames.
12:02I knew that I had got something really significant.
12:14At that point, people dressed in fake Garda uniforms, who were the so-called tag team, with their assault rifles as well,
12:21started making their way back towards the fan.
12:24But then, the driver's attention was drawn towards us.
12:27Assault rifle turned around from pointing forward to suddenly turning back and pointed at us.
12:32And we weren't in an armoured car, so if he started opening fire, we were fucked.
12:37Came back to the van.
12:40And at that stage, Alan was telling me, get the fuck out of here, is what you said.
12:45I think that might have been, yeah.
12:50There's no way there, Gareth.
12:51I got a bit of a sinking feeling when I saw there was no cars out there at all, there was nothing.
13:01I made my way down to the reception where I had heard the explosions.
13:07And that's when I saw the horrific scene there.
13:11There was a person lying on the ground, faceless.
13:31His face had been removed, obviously by one of the gunshots.
13:36We discovered what had happened inside not too long after.
13:46But it was very apparent, very immediately, that there had been someone shot dead inside.
13:52We knew who he was lying to, we knew it was an attack on the Kinnan organisation,
13:56and we knew who the main suspects would be because of what we'd been writing about for the previous few months.
14:00This is the offices of The Sunday World here on, er, on Talbot Street, Media House.
14:18It is now.
14:20I'm Nicola Talent, I'm the Investigations Editor with The Sunday World,
14:23and I've been a journalist for nearly 30 years.
14:27So, the newsroom's on floor three.
14:32In my journalism, almost every story I've done has gone back to cocaine.
14:36And then in the last 20 years, really, every story about cocaine has gone back to the Kinnahans.
14:41That's how significant they are.
14:44Afternoon.
14:46Need to do a little bit of podcasting now.
14:49Yeah.
14:51Nice things.
14:53So, when people talk about Ireland, they talk about drugs, your brain goes to the Kinnahans.
14:58They've really put us on the map internationally.
15:01They're unwanted posters, there's five million bounties on their heads.
15:05If they were a football team, we would be celebrating, we would be welcoming them home in an open-top bus.
15:11They're not, they were street dealers who became billionaires.
15:20The Regency wasn't an isolated event.
15:25It was a culmination of the implosion of the Kinnahan organised crime group,
15:32which started, really, months previous.
15:36Things started going wrong.
15:38There was jealousies, there was accusations of touting, there was accusations of money being owed.
15:43There was a lot of, kind of, building tensions that we, just as newspaper journalists, were able to read the signs of.
15:55Detectives believe the attack was part of an ongoing Dublin criminal gang feud.
16:01The dead man, David Byrne, and the two injured were known to guard thee.
16:13David Byrne was dead.
16:15Hugely significant individual.
16:18The brother of Liam Byrne.
16:20The two of them headed up the Dublin headquarters, essentially, of the Kinnahan cartel.
16:25He was a friend of Daniel Kinnahan.
16:29He was very, very friendly with all the top, kind of, players of the Kinnahan cartel.
16:34You knew, once he was killed, that there was going to be serious retribution.
16:38After the Regency happened, it was almost like an explosion went off, and there was, kind of, this reverberating white noise there.
16:55The funeral is taking place today of David Byrne, and has sparked a major Garthir security.
16:59The funeral is taking place today of David Byrne, and has sparked a major Garthir security.
17:01operation.
17:02The funeral is taking place today of David Byrne, and has sparked a major Garthir security operation.
17:11The funeral is taking place today of David Byrne, and has sparked a major Garthir security operation.
17:15The David Byrne funeral was terrifying. It was a mafia funeral, held in Dublin, and the police had to stand back and let that happen.
17:29The headline is, bling out your debt. I'm only quoting from the newspapers. The funeral will forever go down in history as being a who's who of the Irish criminal underworld.
17:51Gone is the day, gone is the night, gone is the night.
17:56Gone is the day, gone is the night, gone is the day.
18:02Gone is the day, gone is the night, gone is the day.
18:09Absolute show, flaunting the money they have got from drugs.
18:16This is the mobs type stuff, this is mafia type stuff.
18:20Why are our guards there protecting them?
18:22It was a display of power, and it was choreographed to spread fear.
18:34It was an absolute look into the dark heart of the Kinahan cartel.
18:40You know, they came out en masse wearing a uniform.
18:46Blue shirt, black tie, and Daniel Kinahan was photographed here, front and central.
18:52It put the Kinahan name into the consciousness of Ireland.
18:56People were talking about the Kinahan's, they were wondering who they were, where they had come from.
19:04How come the city has been shut down for this funeral?
19:08To understand that you had to go all the way back to the ambition of Christy Kinahan and where that started.
19:14Christy Kinahan Senior would be like a cuckoo in the nest of organised crime.
19:33He doesn't really fit.
19:34It is pleasant as you stroll through Stephen's Green to see sitting there, relaxed, at their ease, the well-fed, happy citizens of Dublin enjoying the view.
19:47Christy Kinahan Senior came from a very stable family home, and he was the only boy in that house, so he was spoiled, doted on, adored.
20:05This is the street where Christy Kinahan actually grew up.
20:09This is a very desirable location to live.
20:11His father was working up in a taxi rank up at the Gresham.
20:17His mother actually ran a B&B from their home here.
20:23This is not the normal place where an organised criminal had grown up.
20:28He kind of had everything, and he could have been everything, but instead he chose to take all those talents and to bring them into organised crime.
20:41Somewhere around his late twenties, we find him in an environment where he doesn't belong.
20:50He's eyeing up criminal enterprises, knocking around in the north inner city.
20:59His middle-class manners mean that he's a great sort of fixer for the gangs.
21:03My name is Michael O'Sullivan. I'm a former Assistant Commissioner in Un Garda Síochána, which is the Irish Police Force.
21:20I joined the Guards when I was twenty.
21:22Dublin at the time was quite depressed.
21:33There was a recession on.
21:35There wasn't a lot of employment.
21:37There was a lot of crime.
21:39So, Chris Kinahan, he didn't feature very highly.
21:43He was a petty enough criminal, for want of a better term.
21:46He was what's described as a kite man, which is a Czech man.
21:56He'd be a guy who could pass himself off as English or as well-spoken from Ireland.
22:03He would put on a posh accent and go and bounce cheques and disappear again.
22:10As criminals go, he was inconsequential.
22:13However, he was very strategic in the way he would think.
22:18And he was always looking to earn that extra money.
22:22He was an opportunist.
22:24And he began to see that there was an easier life than bouncing cheques.
22:28And there was far more money in it.
22:30He decided that he would get into the heroin business.
22:32Dublin's sudden heroin epidemic is now threatening the very lifestyle of the city.
22:42Where children as young as nine and ten have taken the drug,
22:46and in some areas there's some heroin addiction, more than the worst black ghettos in New York.
22:51When heroin sold on the streets of Dublin, in ten packs, costing ten pounds each,
22:57it would contain sufficient for one injection, one fix.
22:59And that's what the kids are queuing up for?
23:02Yes, that's what the young people would buy.
23:07One minute heroin wasn't there, and then the next minute it seemed to be everywhere.
23:12Friends used it, cousins used it, family members, not unusual to have everybody in the family using heroin.
23:20And it brought about complete chaos.
23:22In the spring of 1981, the then Irish Prime Minister, Charles Hawley, summoned the country's top four policemen to an unprecedented emergency meeting on drugs.
23:34He began by asking, who the hell are the Dunns?
23:38Most of Dublin already knew the answer to that question.
23:41The Dunn family, they were the crime family in Dublin city.
23:49It was common knowledge that Larry Dunn had introduced the heroin.
23:54The public saw him as the Al Capone of Dublin.
23:57The police believe that it was this family who pioneered Dublin's heroin epidemic.
24:02It was also an epidemic.
24:14Follow that car, huh?
24:16My name is Ronnie Bourne, and I'm a community activist for the last 40 odd years in the south-west centre city.
24:21So just here on the left is Dolphin House, the starting of Dolphin House.
24:32I grew up in the flats there.
24:35I haven't been up here in a couple of years now.
24:37It's a great place for us to grow up in now, you know. It was always very friendly.
24:51Most people were in harmony.
24:53You'd have the odd, stupid stuff going on here and there, but yeah, generally it was a good area to grow up in.
25:00Up until around the 80s when the drugs came in.
25:04Bingo!
25:05I could never imagine a world without heroin, never.
25:11Never.
25:13Do anything for a prostitute, do anything.
25:17You know, it's just a thing you have to have.
25:22Born addicts.
25:24These babies are Dublin's youngest and most innocent heroin victims.
25:30I've got two drug addicts over in my own home.
25:33Don't bring this pain and sorrow on yourselves and your family.
25:36That's it, yeah.
25:37Where I lived, on any given day there would have been 20 or 30 addicts on the stairs, leading up the stairs.
25:49No problem dropping their elders, injecting into their groin or injecting anywhere.
25:55They had to get the money to feed the habit.
25:59Now they were assaulting people and robbing them and taking their handbags and breaking into people's homes and stuff like that.
26:05Like, people rob their own parents, their own siblings.
26:10I actually sleep with a hammer under me bed.
26:15I mean, I feel I have to protect my two children and if anyone comes in, like, I'll kill them.
26:22They're walking around like resurrections.
26:25I know who cares about them.
26:27Irish police now estimate that Dublin has been subdivided into ten areas to be worked by ten major heroin gangs.
26:36But the police have had their successes.
26:39There's only one person in town behind all this and it was Larry Dunn.
26:47Eventually, the law caught up with him.
26:52Anti-drugs campaigners were out in force as they have been every time Dunn's appeared.
26:58This time they had something to cheer about as one of Dublin's biggest drugs dealers was sent to jail.
27:03For a hundred years, you should have gone right up to jail.
27:06A lot of them, yeah, and anyone belongs to them.
27:08There's plenty more Larry Dunn's around it and everybody will have to stand together and root them all out.
27:15Before he was sentenced, Larry Dunn said,
27:19Look, if you think I'm bad, you want to see what's coming behind me.
27:23Very prophetic words and he was right.
27:25As police finally close down the gang, there are others waiting in the wings.
27:33It was a very challenging time for the Irish police force.
27:54So I eventually went and worked with the Guard of Drug Squad.
27:59The small unit became known as the Mockies because we were mock addicts.
28:05You hung around flat complexes for hours trying to wait for the gear to arrive.
28:11And it was essential for your safety that nobody twigged that you were a cop.
28:20When working in Dublin City, you began to realise there's somebody else in the market.
28:25There was this constant flow of heroin starting to take over the market.
28:31And it was more reliable and more consistent.
28:34And there were different individuals behind it.
28:38And after a period of investigating, the name Chris Kinhan came up.
28:44He was the figure behind it.
28:47He was at the top of the apex.
28:49And the beauty of it all is he's not known to be in the drug trade.
28:55He's not known as a real criminal.
28:57In fact, he's not known at all realistically.
29:00But Chris Kinhan, he fancied himself.
29:03And his desire to show off was his downfall.
29:06We had heard that he drove a red sports car, which was unusual in recession hit Dublin at the time.
29:21Saw the car arrive in what was then a luxury flat complex in the suburbs of North Dublin.
29:28So we had to figure out what flat he was in.
29:35Myself and another guy dressed as electricians went around the flat complex.
29:43Knocking on doors and trying to figure out who was in what flat.
29:47On one or two occasions, people asked us about fridges.
29:53I know we fixed one fridge on one of the floors.
29:58I saw Chris Kinhan and I saw some activity at the flat he was in.
30:04So I realised we had it identified.
30:07We went to the door with my colleagues.
30:10It was opened by an Algerian man who was also in the apartment.
30:14We identified ourselves and went in.
30:20Chris Kinhan was seated at a table eating a salad roll.
30:26He looked up and visibly paled.
30:30On another table was what I could only describe it as the mother load.
30:34He asked me my name. He said, is your name Sullivan? I said, it is. He said, I was told to look out for you.
30:46I told him, you should have took that advice.
30:48Following the jailing of several major drug dealers in recent times, other people moved in to set up new importation and distribution networks and this was one of them.
31:02When drug squad detectives raided the luxury apartment at Fairview, they found Dubliner Christopher Kinhan with over £100,000 worth of heroin.
31:12This shows the kind of ambition he has.
31:16This isn't just some sort of a local drug dealer selling gear on the streets.
31:21This is somebody with the ambition to become a major player internationally.
31:24Gardie believed the apartment was the nerve center of a big drugs ring.
31:30He's caught with an Algerian who is well known on the international stage.
31:35He's making international connections.
31:38He's gone from being the guy, the fence, who sold the stolen goods to being a major significant character on the international stage.
31:46He's been described to the courts as the director of operations.
31:52So that's a very significant step he's taken.
31:56Judge Moriarty said a horrifically high quantity of heroin had been found in the apartment.
32:02Kinahan was jailed for six years.
32:08As a civil society, they go to jail.
32:11That's what we believe ends a criminal career.
32:14But in actual fact, Christie Kinahan used that time to make even more serious contacts.
32:21To grow his ambitious plan for the future.
32:26I mean, at the time, you just think it's the fall of another drug dealer.
32:31But, you know, this is just the beginning.
32:32Oliver Bonflats has gone absolutely bookmad.
32:52Crack cocaine, cocaine, heroin, e-taps, you name it, it's available.
32:57People comatose on the stairs because they've injected.
33:00कि दग्एएलोंट में तेग रग js मुNew mandate
33:07करो सीडियूली समय
33:24It's here that Christopher Junior and Daniel Kinnehan
33:29were brought up by their mother Jean Boylan, who was a cleaning lady.
33:35Their father was absent when they were children
33:38because he was in and out of prison.
33:42This area would have been ravaged really by drugs.
33:47Gene Boylan, by all accounts, was somebody who helped out with addiction charities
33:55and she seemed to have wanted something different for her boys.
34:01I don't know a huge amount about Christopher Jr.
34:04He seems to be, maybe we'll say, the boring one of the two.
34:08Daniel is a different person today than the person he was when he was here.
34:13If you talk to people who knew him at the time,
34:15they describe him as a guy who was one of the lads.
34:18He was a bit of fun, he was a bit of a prankster.
34:21There was obviously a totally different life waiting for him.
34:25One evening I went for a run through the city centre.
34:31I thought I saw somebody in a car looking at me, so I realised I was being followed.
34:41The car came whizzing over behind and past me.
34:47I glanced at it and I realised, I said, it was Chris Kinahan.
34:51I went back to the office and I said to some of the guys, I'm after seeing Chris Kinahan.
35:01So they told me you couldn't have seen him, he's still doing time.
35:13So we rang the prison and found out that he was released.
35:16He was sentenced to six and a half or seven years.
35:22Far too lenient, but that's the way it was in those days.
35:26You only ever get one chance to catch a serious drug supplier
35:32because they've learned from their mistakes.
35:33Christy Kinahan Senior came back for the Kinahan boys as they came of age as teenagers here.
35:43His presence gives them a bit of kudos, a bit of street.
35:49Daniel undoubtedly is looking up to his father as his hero.
35:53He wants to become him and he creates his own little fiefdom within the Oliver Bond flat complex.
36:00It was here where they made a decision to follow their father into organised crime.
36:25Two guys on a motorbike shot the victim four times in the head.
36:29We don't even know who the guy is yet, but it's another night in Dublin.
36:33This is another gangland killing, just another one, you know.
36:39I'm Paul Williams, I was the former crime reporter of the Sunday World.
36:43I've been covering crime for about 35 years.
36:47I suppose it sounded a bit like a junkie, he got addicted to it.
36:50I just got a call there a few hours ago from somebody who's been working with us closely.
36:58There was a fascination with crime in Ireland and because there was so much crime happening.
37:02So there was fascination with these shadowy figures.
37:05We have our mafia type godfathers now.
37:08These guys were getting more dangerous, more sinister, more prepared to blow anybody away who tried to stop them or try to expose them.
37:17I put together a surveillance team, we went out after them, we just photographed them.
37:21And of course they started selling huge amounts of newspapers.
37:24But like the world fell in on top of myself and my other crime reporting colleagues at the time when Veronica Gearn was murdered.
37:35Veronica Gearn, one of the Republic's foremost journalists specialising in stories about underworld and criminal figures,
37:49was shot here on the Neistuel carriageway about 10 miles from the centre of Dublin.
37:56Veronica Gearn was a colleague of mine.
37:58She was very single-minded, very capable journalist.
38:02And she was murdered because she did her job.
38:05And she asked the questions that nobody else was asking.
38:07Veronica's car was just up there now.
38:12I walked over to Veronica's very distinctive red car.
38:16She was lying there in a very smart suit.
38:23You could see this mass of dark, it was clearly blood.
38:28But she was lying and she was being held back by the, by the, by the, by the, the safety belt.
38:35It was, it was fucking horrible.
38:38That image is burned into my memory.
38:44After Veronica was murdered, for me it wasn't business, it was personal.
38:47I feel that I have a duty to keep going.
38:52That's what a free press is about.
38:54And no gangster with no gun is going to stop us.
38:57Christy Kinahan wasn't involved in this outrage.
39:07But he was a senior member of this emerging new generation of narcos.
39:15And there was a small group at the time.
39:17They counted with five or six major players.
39:19They were all working together.
39:21Veronica was murdered because she asked the crime boss, where did you get your money?
39:26And they decided the murderer.
39:28And they thought they could do it.
39:31This was the beginning of a whole new era of organised crime.
39:35The thousands of people have been attending the funeral of the crime reporter, Veronica Guerin.
39:48Among the mourners was the Irish president, Mary Robinson, and the prime minister, John Bruton.
39:53Veronica Guerin was denied her right to life by organised crime.
39:58Her mother represents a direct attack on our democracy.
40:02The Irish parliament has approved sweeping new legislation to deal with the growing problem of organised crime linked to drugs.
40:10Armed with new powers of search, the Gardaí are getting tough.
40:16The criminal assets bureau has opened its doors to television cameras.
40:20Accountants, police, customs, social security and tax investigators
40:24trace assets of major criminals from here.
40:27There is no messing around with this.
40:28They say to you, you owe us, and if you don't pay us up, we're going to take your house.
40:33The government brought in the criminal assets bureau, and they could go after the assets of criminals.
40:38And of course then it had the effect of forcing Christie Kenahan's fellow drug traffickers to leave the country and base their operations outside of Ireland.
40:49Christie Kenahan in the 90s decided, you know, to flee from Ireland and find a safe haven in Amsterdam.
41:06Behind here, behind that tall building and all those buildings, that's really the old red light district.
41:16And that's where Christie Kenahan was hanging out.
41:20Organised crime was basically in the centre of town.
41:25I think it was Paul Williams who referred to Amsterdam as the Wall Street of the international drug market.
41:39Be it Irish, British, Spanish, Colombian, Venezuelan, you name it.
41:44And they were all here to do the same illegal business.
41:52Christie Kenahan came to Amsterdam in the middle of the 1990s.
41:58The Wall in Berlin had fallen.
42:01The mood of most nations in Europe turned very optimistic.
42:13And ecstasy was actually a drug that fit that mood perfectly.
42:22When Christie Kenahan came to Amsterdam, that thing was on the rise.
42:28And he saw the market.
42:31And he saw a chance.
42:32And he took that chance.
42:37The boom was from, what, 93, 94 on into the new century.
42:43And that was really the time where Christie Kenahan and his associate John Cunningham were in the Netherlands.
42:58When Christie Kenahan was nicked for the big heroin hall, John Cunningham and Christie Kenahan find themselves on the same landing in prison.
43:07After one was convicted of drug trafficking and the other was convicted of kidnapping.
43:12John Cunningham, referred to by his accomplices as the colonel, had decided to go for the big one.
43:25John Cunningham was very much a part of that generation of professional armed robbers.
43:30He was always after the one big job.
43:33And that was a kidnapping, where they kidnapped Jennifer Guinness, who was married to the heir to the Guinness fortune.
43:38The gang forced their hostage into a car and headed north towards swords, leaving a demand for a ransom of two million pounds and the code word jackal.
43:50This was going to be the key to the big time and they'd never have to work again. They were caught.
43:56Mrs Guinness's eight day ordeal ended just before seven o'clock this morning.
44:00It was around midnight that police tracked Mrs Guinness and three members of the gang who abducted her to a smart Dublin townhouse.
44:07Shots were fired and he was arrested.
44:10John Cunningham told the Gardaí it was going to be the big one, but it went wrong.
44:14He was jailed for 17 years.
44:16This would be part of the general story of organised crime is that the relationship and friendships that build up on the landings in the prison become lifelong friendships.
44:31It was from that time on that himself and John Cunningham basically become partners in crime.
44:40John Cunningham caused a major embarrassment for the Irish authorities when he absconded from Shelton Abbey Open Prison in County Wicklow.
44:52In September 1996 Cunningham is an open prison.
44:55We did a runner and he gets out of the country and he was smuggled in Amsterdam.
44:59Christie puts his arm around him, introduced him to the drug trade and that's the start of probably one of the most powerful criminal cartels in European history.
45:12Rock and roll is dead. That's the view of a lot of young people.
45:27From Russia to the United States, it's been replaced by what they call a cultural revolution.
45:43dance, house or rave music, with the music for the drugs, in particular what's termed the ultimate fashion accessory, ecstasy or E.
45:52Unbelievable, you know, it's hard to explain but you just get a rush up your spine every time you'd hear a good tune, you know.
46:01And then you start feeling and then you're getting heavier and heavier, you know.
46:05Then the rushes you get off, pushes your adrenaline level up real high, you know.
46:10And as soon as the music starts getting going, going around dancing and that, you know.
46:14For the pushes of drugs, there's no shortage of work or profit.
46:18It's a lucrative, if dangerous, trade.
46:22By the mid-1990s, the criminal landscape had changed.
46:26All of a sudden, this whole generation who would never have probably gone down the drug route
46:31were seeing this as being a fun night out.
46:34There was e-parties everywhere and there was raves.
46:37And Christopher Jr. and Daniel start ecstasy dealing in Dublin, in the south inner city
46:44with their father's product from Amsterdam.
46:46In particular, Daniel seems to start providing his own group with drugs.
46:54And I think Daniel sort of morphs into the father.
46:57And there was only one way they're going and that's after Christie Kinahan Sr. out to Europe
47:01to learn the drug business.
47:16The beginning of 1997, Christie Kinahan Sr. breaks cover and comes back to his father's funeral.
47:26He's wanted in Ireland on £16,000 worth of stolen.
47:31Traveller's cheques were taken in an armed robbery and he was caught cashing them.
47:34So he was wanted on that charge.
47:36He comes home, he's busted.
47:38I was assigned to interview him with another colleague.
47:42And by his very nature, Chris Kinahan wouldn't say very much.
47:49During the course of the interview, he remained silent for quite a period of time
47:55and broke the silence to say,
47:58You think you're so smart. I followed you.
48:01I said, I know. And I told him the car and the registered number of the car.
48:09That he followed me in.
48:14And then he went silent again and that was the last conversation we had.
48:22But it was the intent, the menacing intent,
48:27that he would try and get inside your head.
48:44Port Alicia has been the country's main high security prison
48:47since IRA prisoners were transferred there in 1973.
48:51And a continuous guard of over a hundred troops back up the Gardaí,
48:56who in turn back up the prison officers.
49:01My name is David MacDonald. I was a prison officer.
49:04I served in Portleigh's prison from 1991 to 2000.
49:09Part of my role was in the education unit,
49:12where I came in close contact with the prisoner known as Christie Kinahan.
49:16So the prison was known as the most secure prison in Europe.
49:21It was a maximum security prison.
49:24So we had a lot of troublesome and difficult prisoners.
49:28It's not difficult to remember Christie Kinahan, even from back then.
49:33He was charismatic. He was very calm.
49:37He kept himself immaculate. He kept the cell immaculate.
49:40He didn't cause bother. He used his time extremely wisely,
49:43which very few prisoners do.
49:46I studied courses at a very high level,
49:49degree level in both Spanish and Russian.
49:53Because of my role in the education unit,
49:57I would see his marks.
49:58And they were always very, very high.
50:00Very, very high.
50:02I've never seen a prisoner ever refuse early release.
50:06Never. Not in 31 years.
50:08Christie Kinahan was offered early release.
50:10He refused it.
50:11He was doing a degree course at the time.
50:14He reckoned he could do it better inside the prison.
50:19And I want to come across that I'm saying I admire Christie Kinahan.
50:22There's a reason why the US have 5 million bounty on him and also on his two sons.
50:28So I'm not an admirer.
50:29But the truth is, he was a little bit of royalty in a goldfish bowl of tuggery.
50:38When Christie's in prison and he knows his business is OK, Daniel Kinahan, who's now just in his early 20s, is very much involved at a management level on the Irish side of his father's international drug trafficking operation.
51:00There was no doubt about that.
51:01There's an intelligence document here from 2000, which clearly points out the fact that, you know, Daniel on the instructions of his father, Christopher, is visiting him in Portleigh Prison approximately three to four times a week.
51:11At this stage, he was well and truly on their daddy's wing and on his way to taking over the family business.
51:18These are the new weapons of the drugs war. Miniature submachine guns are now part of the armory of Ireland's criminal gangs.
51:36Fitted with silencers, their deadly purpose is obvious.
51:39But 15 of these weapons, along with 10 pistols and over 300 kilos of cannabis, are in the safe hands of the Gardaí in Monaghan.
51:48It's understood the drugs and weapons were hidden in a consignment of frozen food which landed at the Port of Dublin yesterday morning.
51:57Just before Christmas in 1998, a couple of pallets of pita bread arrived into a food storage facility down on the border in County Monaghan.
52:05And when it was removed, it accidentally was broken open by a forklift truck and out of it spilled nearly a ton of hash and an arsenal of 20 or more machine guns, machine pistols and automatic pistols.
52:21It was an extraordinary find and was found purely by accident.
52:24A major investigation begins to track down the source of that stuff, which ultimately leads back to Amsterdam and to John Cunningham.
52:35And when the Dutch go after you, that means that every phone that John Cunningham used from then on was bowed.
52:47Well, I prefer to protect my identity because over the years in the National Drug Unit, we deprived the Kenyan organised crime group of many millions of euros worth of drugs, etc.
53:04And I'm happily retired now and I'd like to stay that way.
53:13Well, the Dutch police, they were running into some difficulties with the Dublin accents and also with some of the slang terminology that was being used.
53:20Myself and a colleague would go over on a weekly basis to assist the Dutch police listening to the wiretaps and assisting them with interpretation of what was being said.
53:33To have all the telephone calls on a computer screen in front of you and listen to them as often as you wish them back and forth, it was amazing.
53:43At one stage, as they're listening to these conversations with Cunningham, they listen to this voice.
53:51And it turns out it was Christy Kinahan ringing from Portleigh's prison, where he's still in the nick studying one of his degrees.
54:02Prisoners are allowed to make very brief phone calls.
54:05They're recorded. Everything's recorded. And listened to. And they know that.
54:08Christy Kinahan was extremely clever. He managed to get a mobile phone smuggled into him, which was a feat in itself because back then mobile phones were the size of a brick.
54:18It allowed him still to run his empire from inside the walls of the maximum security prison in Europe.
54:25There were lots of conversations on the phone between Christy Senior and John Cunningham.
54:31Christopher Kinahan always assumed he was being listened to.
54:34And as a result of that, he spoke in code.
54:40Timber usually referred to cannabis. Powders were either brown being heroin or white being cocaine.
54:48It was quite obvious they were arranging the importation of drugs and weapons.
54:52From his prison cell. Like, when he got nicked, never stopped.
54:59When he's taken out the picture, Kinahan, John Cunningham has the same kind of ability when it comes to organizational ability.
55:06And he then continues to run the business. And actually Cunningham over the next three to three and a half years builds what Kinahan had left behind him.
55:19He builds it into a massive operation because in the period of two years, his first two years in the helm when Christie's in prison, he transports something like 150 to 200 million pounds worth at the time of drugs into Ireland.
55:34But then Cunningham is arrested again.
55:43Ecstasy tablets, each with a street value of 10 pounds. Over 100,000 of them in packets that could slip into a handbag.
55:51Cannabis, carefully wrapped, part of a consignment worth more than six million pounds.
55:55And more than half a million pounds worth of amphetamine powder. The Hall of Drugs from what the Dutch call Operation Clover.
56:03They believe they have smashed a racket in which Dubliner John Cunningham was the central figure.
56:10It's now known that Cunningham and his associates were the subject of a vast surveillance operation, mounted by police forces in Holland, Belgium, the UK and Ireland, using phone taps, videos and covert observation.
56:21By the time Cunningham is arrested again, the boys are massively well embedded in the whole fabric of organized crime across Europe.
56:32They are players. And luckily and happily for the boys, Kinahan comes out of prison and takes over the reins just as his friend is busted and put back in prison.
56:42They continue to build this massive, probably Europe's most powerful drug cartel.
56:51And it also is at a time when the demand for drugs amongst ordinary law-abiding citizens of Europe goes through the roof.
56:59Only one drug is so addictive. Nine out of ten laboratory rats will use it. And use it. And use it. Until dead.
57:16It's called cocaine. And it can do the same thing to you.
57:20With the mass introduction of cocaine to Ireland. There was this really dramatic upsurge in gangland violence. The only way to settle arguments was to kill.
57:31This is the moment when the police enter into one of the houses of the presumed members of the Irish mafia, located on the Costa del Sol.
57:50He wanted to get to the pinnacle of world boxing, which he actually nearly did.
57:56I'm sure Daniel can hold his arm in the head to head.
57:58This was an attempt to take off the head of the snake.
58:07And they'd missed what had they unleashed on themselves.
58:12The Kinahan organization wanted to wipe out anybody who bore the name Hutch.
58:18The murder may be linked to the ongoing Hutch-Kinnahan gangland feud that has claimed up to 18 lives.
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