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Your Evening Longread: The global links of the Kinahan crime gang

We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.

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Kinahan gang

Barry Cummins, RTÉ Prime Time’s security correspondent, details the links between the Kinahan organised crime gang and people across the world. 

(RTÉ, approx 7 mins reading time)

But two things are clear: Fassih is an international assassin, and the apartment was rented by a third party on behalf of the leadership of the Kinahan organised crime group. The rental apartment served as a command centre of sorts: using five encrypted devices to keep in touch with criminal associates, he sought to organise the murders of people in Holland. From within a stone’s throw of Government Buildings, Fassih used an email account to make plans for the shooting of a criminal figure in the town of Diemen, close to Amsterdam.

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