Daniel Kinahan vows to fight Irish organized crime charge

Filed 2h ago · Via Courthouse News · The Buffoon Desk

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Daniel Kinahan, 49, appeared before Ireland's Special Criminal Court to contest a charge of directing a criminal organization between 2015 and 2017, with his lawyer Darragh Mackin formally entering the case and signaling a bail application through the High Court.

Judge Caroline Biggs remanded Kinahan in custody until Dec. 21, when prosecutors are due to hand over a 189-page book of evidence. The defense wants extra time to examine digital evidence and obtain records from related investigations in Spain and Dubai, with Mackin suggesting trial might begin in early 2027.

The case sits atop years of international attention: U.S. Treasury sanctions in 2022 named Kinahan, his father, and brother as key figures in an organization accused of trafficking cocaine and laundering proceeds, with State Department rewards of up to $5 million each. U.K. prosecutions of associates have already produced sentences as long as 21 years, though Kinahan's own case remains at the charge stage, untested in court.

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✒ FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK

A decade in Dubai, a convoy with an Armed Support Unit, and a stack of paperwork nearly 200 pages thick, this is what a 'formal entry' into a case looks like when the stakes are that high. The man hasn't been convicted of anything, and the court is right to say so plainly, but it's hard to miss how long the road to 2027 already looks. Patience, it seems, is the one thing everybody in that courtroom has in surplus.

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