Mob boss Daniel Kinahan is likely to face charges over the use of a bogus ID document in a drug addict’s name, we can reveal.
Sources say that he will be arrested and questioned for utilising Dundalk man’s Seamus Walsh’s passport if he ever returns to Ireland.
Kinahan, 45, had the use of the travel document for up to six years before it was revoked by the authorities in 2017.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 one and three identification documents in the UAE, where he has been based in Dubai for a number of years.
Sources have confirmed Kinahan travelled on Walsh’s passport before the Hutch gang attempted to murder him at the Regency Hotel in February 2016.
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