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Episode 107: How Spanish cops failed to take down the Kinahan's reign in Spain
In 2010, Spanish police announced that they had dismantled the Irish Mafia by shutting down the Kinahan Organised Crime Group.
Headed by Christopher Kinahan Snr and managed by his sons Daniel and Christopher Jnr the so-called ‘Cartel’ was estimated to be worth €100 million when it was hit with the killer blow by cops who had spent two years wire-tapping the gang and keeping them under close surveillance.
But the scenario sounds all too familiar now and 12 years on the Kinahans are not only still in business, but ten times bigger than they ever were. So what went wrong?
Today I’m joined by journalist and author Stephen Breen whose book, 'The Cartel', details the surveillance and wire-tap probe by the Spanish which failed to take the head from the snake.
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- Episode 103: The Lithuanian gang who flooded Ireland with heroin through their network of slave dealers
- Episode 102: The life and crimes of Kinahan cartel crony Johnny 'Cash' Morrissey
- Episode 101: What's next for the WAGS of the Kinahan Cartel?
- Episode 100: The Kinahan Cartel's partnership with Scotland's most-feared mobs
- Episode 99: The continued 'Manhunt' for double murder suspect Kevin Parle
- Episode 98: How the Kinahan Cartel broke into the U.S. Boxing scene
- Episode 97: Christy Kinahan Snr - The Cartel 'Godfather' who hid in plain sight
- Episode 96: How sadistic killer Graham Dwyer is one step closer to freedom
- Episode 95: My ordinary 'Old Man' - the UK super-criminal
- Episode 94: How the world's law enforcement plotted the downfall of the Kinahan Cartel
- Episode 93: The gangland murder of James Whelan and the 'Mr Flashy' feud
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