The Celtic Cartel: How the Kinahan crime mob rose to the top of the global drugs trade
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThey're widely considered to be the most deadly gang operating in the UK and Ireland. Their fearsome reputation puts them on a par with the Italian mafia and the Mexican cartels.
The Kinahan Irish crime family are rumoured to have made around £850m from drugs, firearms and extortion rackets. They're thought to have murdered at least 20 people around Europe.
And now a new documentary The Celtic Cartel – released on Amazon Prime this week – explores how the Kinahan clan rose to the top of the global drug trade. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community Led by Daniel Kinahan and his father, convicted drug dealer Christy Snr Kinahan, the gang emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s as the most powerful in Ireland.
They've been under investigation by the UK's National Crime Agency since 2006. But the cartel came to wider notoriety a decade later when gunmen armed with AK-47s and disguised as gardaí stormed a boxing weigh-in at a Dublin hotel.
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