Tyson Fury and other senior figures in boxing have been warned to cut all ties with the Irish alleged crime boss Daniel Kinahan, whose gang was targeted with fresh sanctions and a $5m (£3.8m) bounty by the US government on Tuesday.
The WBC heavyweight champion has previously praised Kinahan, a founder of the boxing management company MTK Global, and was photographed with him just weeks ago in Dubai. But in an extraordinary press conference in Dublin, the US ambassador to Ireland, Claire Cronin, revealed that the department of the treasury is now offering a reward of $5m for information that will lead to the “financial destruction” of the Kinahan organised crime group (KOGC) or the arrest and conviction of its leaders.
