Mob boss Daniel Kinahan is likely to face charges over the use of a bogus ID document in a drug addict’s name, the Irish Mirror can reveal.
Sources say that Kinahan will be arrested and questioned for utilising Dundalk native Seamus Walsh’s passport if he ever returns to Ireland.
Kinahan, 45, had the use of Walsh’s travel document for up to six years before it was revoked by authorities in 2017.
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While the cocaine and heroin pusher used the passport to travel, we have also learned that Dubliner Kinahan primarily utilised it as a false identity in a number of money laundering activities.
Kinahan is currently the subject of international sanctions placed on him by the US Government, with a €5million bounty on his head along with his father Christy Snr, 66, and 43-year-old brother Christy Jnr.
Sources say because no extradition treaty exists between Ireland and the UAE, nor is there an arrest warrant out for Kinahan, charges cannot be directed.
However, he will be arrested, quizzed and is likely to face charges for the use of Walsh’s passport if he ever is returned here.
The passport was applied for and sold by Walsh in 2011, a time when he was a heroin addict, but has no connection with Kinahan or the cartel whatsoever.
A source said: “Kinahan used this passport for a number of things including travel and identity for money laundering activity.
“This passport was one of a number authorities have established he used. But it’s likely he had access to many more.”
Law enforcement found that Kinahan had eight bogus identification documents, including four Irish passports, a UK passport and three identification documents in the UAE, where he has been based in Dubai for a number of years.
Sources have confirmed that Kinahan travelled on Walsh’s passport before the Hutch gang attempted to murder him at the Regency Hotel in February 2016.
Kinahan travelled to the UAE in early September 2015, weeks before cartel hitman James Quinn shot Gerry “The Monk” Hutch’s nephew Gary dead on the Costa Del Sol.
In mid November 2015, he travelled to Dubai once more after a botched hit attempt on him and other senior gang members - including Fat Freddie Thompson and Liam Roe - at the Red Cow Inn.
Garda investigations established the belief that the Hutch gang were behind the attack, but the blood-thirsty Kinahan mob wrongly pointed blame at IRA-linked David “Daithi” Douglas and drug dealer Darren Kearns who was a convicted drug dealer.
Both men were later murdered, with Fat Freddie behind bars for his role in orchestrating the Douglas hit.
The passport was finally revoked in 2017 before Mr Walsh was questioned in August 2018, when he made full admissions.
Earlier this year he pleaded guilty at Dundalk Circuit Court to selling his passport contrary to the Passports Act 2008.
But a bench warrant is out for Walsh’s arrest after he failed to show up to his sentencing last week.
Det Garda Feidhlim McKenna, of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, previously gave evidence of how the probe established that the passport was dispatched to Walsh in 2011.
But the court heard that the supporting documentation used to apply for it - an electricity bill, a drivers’ licence and a bank statement - were all found to be bogus.
The picture used did not match that of Walsh’s public services card. Det Gda McKenna said of the picture on the passport: “This photo belongs to Daniel Joseph Kinahan, a senior figure in organised crime.”
Det Gda McKenna told the court that the passport was used for travel but said he was not in a position to make any further comment on that.
The court heard that Walsh was “off his head on drugs” and “in the throes of heroin addiction” at the time he sold the document for €2000.
It was heard that it was common that vulnerable people with addiction issues are preyed on for passports.
Kinahan is also likely to face other charges if he was to be brought back to Ireland, including directing a crime gang.
Speaking last month, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris said he remained confident that Kinahan and his allies will face justice.
He said: “That’s the whole purpose of this, to bring the leaders of the Kinahan crime group to justice.
“Significant advances have been made, particularly in Europe, but also with our US federal law enforcement partners. And so there is action in this and it keeps on moving forward.”
The Garda chief is regularly updated on the mob and its activities. He explained: “Every month I’m updated on progress between myself and our partners.
We’re still working very closely together and it’s a very good example of action between many nations directed towards what is a transnational crime group.
“So work carries on but we always knew this would be a difficult target but much diminished from where it was a year ago.”
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