Daniel Kinahan hunt intensifies as US make new offer plus £11.5m for ex-Tyson Fury advisor
Members of the Kinahan cartel have been urged to turn on their mobster boss and former boxing promoter with a new offer as well as an eight-figure reward.
The manhunt for Tyson Fury's ex-advisor Daniel Kinahan has intensified with the promise of witness protection added to the £11.5million bounty on his head. Kinahan is a former Irish boxing promoter who leads one of the world's most powerful organised crime gangs.
One of the Kinahan cartel's leading figures, 38-year-old Sean McGovern, was arrested in Dubai on Thursday. McGovern has been wanted for more than two years on foot of a European Arrest Warrant, with Irish authorities seeking him in connection with the murder of Noel 'Duck Egg' Kirwa, 62, in 2016 and other organised crime offences.
Following that development, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has urged other members of Kinahan's inner circle to turn on him. He explained how they'd be offered US witness protection as well as claiming the $15m (£11.47m) reward their Department of State offered up in 2022 for information leading to the conviction of Kinahan, his brother Christopher Jr and their father Christy Sr.
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Commissioner Harris said: "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.
"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 but 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. The 47-year-old 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, although it's believed he continued to matchmake for the Gypsy King after that point. MTK Global ceased operations in 2022.
