Crime World

'Dapper Don' Christy Kinahan was planning an African escape with his partner Nessy Yildirim to Harare in Zimbabwe where he hoped to settle with his family while taking control of one of the world’s key cocaine shipping routes.Reporters from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists discovered that Kinahan posed as a humanitarian aviation consultant and with Yildirim’s help tried to buy a fleet of planes from the Egyptian military.Today I’m speaking with Niall Donald about the incredible ambition of the Dublin Cartel boss who has always remained one step ahead of the law and his contemporaries.We talk about his top-level business dealings in plain sight, his ability to reinvent himself on the world stage while remaining out of the limelight and about the complex love life of an accomplished fraudster.

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It’s the north inner city neighbourhood which the State say was used by the Regency Hit team to gather before they headed to the north Dublin hotel.The Buckingham street area has long been the heartland of the Hutch clan and indeed murder accused Gerry The Monk Hutch.In the run up to detailed evidence expected over the coming weeks and centered on an apartment complex called Buckingham Village myself and colleague Niall Donald visit the location which has been described in great detail and maps at the Special Criminal Court.We see the home of The Monks mother now used as by a children's charity and the closeness of key individual caught up in the feud.

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Welcome to the Dingle Whiskey Movie Club - a Crime World special where we will be discussing our favourite gangster films with special guests.Each week for the next five we will choose two movies from our own top ten to review, to rate and to remember.But we want your thoughts too so go onto our social media sites on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to vote for your favourites and be in with a chance to win tickets to a special live show and party.This week I’m chatting with comedian Peter McGann and the Sunday World’s Niall Donald about Casino and the epic The City of God.

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Gerry The Monk Hutch has vigorously defended his 'innocence and reputation' at the Special Criminal Court where he is on trial for the murder of David Byrne.In advance of opinion evidence which was given to the court by Detective Superintendent David Gallagher of the Garda's Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau, his counsel, Brendan Grehan SC asked the court to respect his presumption of innocence of the past, present and future.DS Gallagher later told the court the Hutch Organised Crime Group was an intergenerational group run in a patriarchal system but that it is fluid and less structured than many other organised groups.Today I'm talking with my colleague Niall Donald about how 'the Monk' values his reputation and why he continues to fight for his image in the court of public opinion.

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A survivor of the Cold War and of the notorious Russian Gulags, Imre Arakas was an international hitman who washed up on our shores like a character dreamed up in a work of fiction.His paymaster for this trip was Daniel Kinahan, the son of Christy Kinahan Snr and director general of the Irish mafia on the Costa Del Sol where Arakas lived.He’d worked for them before and he’d always been paid swiftly and efficiently on completion of a jobHe’d flown into Dublin with a tent, a little camping stove, fishing rods and binoculars, looking every bit the nature lover who enjoyed holidays in the great outdoors.Despite his celebrity as an international hitman for hire, Arakas was confident that nobody would know him in Ireland and that he could pass off as a tourist.It didn’t quite work out like that though. This is his story.

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He looks a far cry from the international legend first arrested in Ireland in April 2017 on a trip to murder Kinahan cartel target James ‘Mago’ Gately.Gone are the chiselled good looks of the suave International hitman for hire and when Imre Arakas appeared in the Irish High Court this week before Justice Paul Burns he looked more like a desert island castaway resigned to his fate – a one way trip to Lithuania where he faces murder charges.Today I’m joined by my colleague Eamon Dillon as we discuss the extradition of Imre Arakas, the doomed trip to Dublin on a mission to kill that ended his lengthy career and the mobs from home and abroad brought down by their own bad decisions.

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The fear that surrounded the aftermath of the Regency Hotel attack for those who had been linked to the murder of David Byrne has been laid bare at the Special Criminal Court this week.Suspects Jason Bonney and Paul Murphy are both accused of providing the vehicles for the hit team that carried out the brazen shooting at a packed boxing weigh in.They deny the charges and any involvement in the murder of Byrne along with Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch who stands trial for the murder.As the trial continues I’m talking with my colleague Niall Donald about the evidence about threats issued by the Kinahan Cartel in the weeks and months following the February 5th incident, about the professional boxers who have been named over the course of the trial and about the impending legal battle surrounding issues around policing the northern Ireland border and secrets held behind the closed doors of elite Garda units.

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THE trial of Stephen Silver for the murder of Detective Garda Colm Horkan is continuing at the Central Criminal Court where the motorbike mechanic has taken the stand to give evidence in his own defence.Silver has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Garda Horkan, knowing or being reckless as to whether he was a member of An Garda Siochana, but guilty to his manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibilityNicola Tallant is joined by courts reporter Eoin Reynolds as we get up to date on the evidence heard in the on-going trial

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It’s been a place of refuge for countless mega-rich European drug traffickers who have beaten a golden path to the luxury Gulf state of Dubai over the past 10 years.And when a super cartel of the biggest cocaine traffickers sat down to do business at Daniel Kinahan's 2017 wedding at the seven-star Burj Al Arab hotel they couldn’t have felt safer.But arrests, deportations and sanctions have followed - with two now in prison and two left behind, trapped in their own luxury prisons.So how did Dubai become the new Costa Del Crime and how committed are police and rulers in the United Arab Emirates to handing back the crooks?Nicola Tallant talks with author and journalist Carl Fellstrom, who details the ancient Hawala money laundering system that has made crime easy, about the British drug trafficker who led the way to the Gulf at the turn of the century, and about the A-list traffickers - including the Kinahan mob - who followed to the cash-rich desert paradise.

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THE trial of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch for the murder of Kinahan Cartel lieutenant David Byrne has focused on events that took place in the weeks following the Regency Hotel attack and the subsequent covert Garda operations involving the National Surveillance Unit.Here, Nicola Tallant chats with courts reporter Alison O'Riordan about evidence heard surrounding the movements of Gerry Hutch, Jonathan Dowdall and others on key dates, when the State say they met with IRA man Shane Rowan before he was nabbed with the Regency guns.Alison details the intricacies of the surveillance operations and about the 'lightning bolt' moment when Hutch's counsel, Brendan Grehan SC, indicated to the court that the Northern border would be key to their defence.

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