Daniel Kinahan. The Kinahan cartel has now begun efforts to rejuvenate itself by using Irish and foreign people with clean criminal records as franchisees. Photograph: Collins DublinThe Kinahan cartel has begun a new so-called franchise system in Ireland based on using people, Irish and foreign nationals, who are previously unknown to An Garda Sióchána.
Cannabis valued at €6.9 million was discovered at the commercial premises, which gardaí believe was being used as a hub for receiving and then redistributing drugs from the cartel, which is headed by Christopher Kinahan Snr and his sons Daniel and Christopher Jnr. And it has now begun its efforts to rejuvenate itself by using Irish and foreign people with clean criminal records as franchisees. Gardaí have now uncovered evidence in several operations of people with no criminal record, or do not have an established record in the organised drugs trade, working for the cartel as franchisees.
Thought they were on the back foot