Gardai are set to lay bare some of mobster Daniel Kinahan’s most personal secrets — to persuade a judge to formally label him a criminal.
Sources have told The Star that the Criminal Assets Bureau, which has been secretly investigating the 44-year-old for more than three years, is set to tell a court intimate details of Kinahan’s life and wealth — as well as his inner circle.
The details are expected to be revealed by the CAB when it opens evidence against Kinahan in the High Court in Dublin early next month.
Kinahan, who is living in a Dubai bolthole, has been named as a respondent in an assets recovery case taken by CAB against former millionaire businessman Jim Mansfield Jnr.
Mansfield Jnr — currently serving an 18-month sentence handed down by the non-jury Special Criminal Court for perverting the course of justice relating to the kidnap of an ex-employee by INLA thugs Dessie O’Hare and Declan ‘Whacker’ Duffy — is the main focus of the CAB case.
But Kinahan has also been named in proceedings, as well as his sidekick Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh.
The case is due to be heard at the High Court in the first week of April — when gardai will outline their beliefs against everyone named in proceedings, including Kinahan.
Sources said that means gardai will be able, for the first time, to outline what information they have on Kinahan.
“There will be lots of details about Kinahan,” a source said last night.
“That will include things he will not want people to know, including his address in Dubai, what assets CAB believe he has here, what he works at, everything.
“The court is also likely to hear who Kinahan works with and there should also be evidence of what criminal activity gardai believe he is involved in.
“It will all be said in open court.”
Gardai have long believed Kinahan — who is from Dublin but has lived in Dubai for around five years — runs the drugs and murder cartel that bears his name. But they have never had the chance to outline their case against him — until now.
“All his dirty linen will be aired in public,” the source said.
“And he won’t like it.”
Sources told The Star that gardai are hoping for a High Court judge to formally declare that he has assets in Ireland that come from criminality — which would dent the Dubliner’s current publicity campaign to paint himself as a mere boxing promoter.
He has spent the last three years trying to reinvent himself as a promoter who has no involvement in crime and as the victim of harassment from gardai and the media.
Just next week, a three-hour interview he did with British influencer James English is set to be released — in which he says all he wants to do is help people and accuses the media of turning on him.
Sources told The Star that if a High Court judge accepts the Garda case against Kinahan it will be a major blow to his plan to sportswash his reputation.
“A declaration by a judge here that Kinahan is involved in criminality would devastate him,” the source said.
“It will be impossible for him to talk his way out of it. It will hang over him forever.”
