in 2020 and who moved to Dubai, has also “managed communications on behalf of Daniel Kinahan, and he sells multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine”. He has just one known passport, which is Irish, and the only address listed for him is in Dubai. It also emerged yesterday that a European arrest warrant had been issued for him by the Irish authorities as he is wanted in relation to a number of crimes, up to and including murder.
“Ian Dixon has arranged multiple payments on behalf of Daniel Kinahan, as well as moved bulk currency on behalf of Daniel Kinahan in Ireland and the United Kingdom”, US treasury department said. “Ian Dixon also oversees a fund on behalf of Daniel Kinahan and keeps track of money owed by a narcotics trafficker.
“Ian Dixon is a 49 per cent shareholder, and he also receives 80 percent of Hoopoe Sports’ profits. Ian Dixon is the sole manager of Hoopoe Sports and has full executive power over the company,” the department says. Hoopoe Sports is one of three companies also on the US sanctions list.Bernard Clancy is a Dubliner with addresses in Dubai and Estepona in Spain, and has two Irish passports.
The US says Morrissey is also “involved in money laundering”. It is further stated that Morrissey is the owner or controller, either directly or indirectly, of the Scottish-based Nero Drinks Company Ltd, which sells luxury alcoholic drinks and is one of the three companies now on the US sanctions list.
Morrissey, it is stated, “has given a significant portion of the business to Daniel Kinahan to compensate for loads of drugs seized by law enforcement” and that he, Morrissey, controls the business through his wife who is “the primary shareholder, who is used as a frontperson for his interests”.