UK 'Gangsters' Arrested On Costa Del Sol - News - Heart East Midlands: "Christopher 'Christy' Kinahan, 53, is said to be the network's boss.
He was arrested on the coast at Estepona at the £10m villa he has lived in for the past few years.
Kinahan is thought to have been behind a bet-to-lose horse-racing scam in the UK in 2004, in which top jockey Kieren Fallon and others were eventually acquitted when an Old Bailey trial collapsed.
His sons Christy Junior and Daniel have also been arrested in an operation involving armed police.
The crime gang is suspected of major drug trafficking into the UK and the rest of Europe, gun supply to inner city gangs in Britain and several underworld murders.
The network is also accused of offering rival villains a money-laundering service to disguise their crime profits, much of it ploughed into building projects.
Several Spanish lawyers are under arrest on suspicion of their part in the money-laundering side of the gang's business.
Another man arrested was Irishman John Cunningham, considered to be Kinahan's right-hand man.
Cunningham has a previous conviction for the kidnap in 1986 of heiress Jennifer Guinness in Ireland.
The principals are thought to have been under surveillance for a year or more, during which time they were overheard talking in code.
They allegedly used 'computers' for guns, 'waiters' for weapons, 'cars' for ecstasy and 'leaves' for banknotes.
If charged they are expected to stand trial in Spain and those arrested in the UK and Ireland could be extradited here."
He was arrested on the coast at Estepona at the £10m villa he has lived in for the past few years.
Kinahan is thought to have been behind a bet-to-lose horse-racing scam in the UK in 2004, in which top jockey Kieren Fallon and others were eventually acquitted when an Old Bailey trial collapsed.
His sons Christy Junior and Daniel have also been arrested in an operation involving armed police.
The crime gang is suspected of major drug trafficking into the UK and the rest of Europe, gun supply to inner city gangs in Britain and several underworld murders.
The network is also accused of offering rival villains a money-laundering service to disguise their crime profits, much of it ploughed into building projects.
Several Spanish lawyers are under arrest on suspicion of their part in the money-laundering side of the gang's business.
Another man arrested was Irishman John Cunningham, considered to be Kinahan's right-hand man.
Cunningham has a previous conviction for the kidnap in 1986 of heiress Jennifer Guinness in Ireland.
The principals are thought to have been under surveillance for a year or more, during which time they were overheard talking in code.
They allegedly used 'computers' for guns, 'waiters' for weapons, 'cars' for ecstasy and 'leaves' for banknotes.
If charged they are expected to stand trial in Spain and those arrested in the UK and Ireland could be extradited here."
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