Despite a $5-million reward for information leading to his arrest, the Irish drug kingpin Daniel Kinahan lived openly in Dubai for a decade. During his time in the U.A.E., he presented himself as a legitimate boxing promoter—but, in 2017, he held a lavish wedding attended by almost every member of a group known as the Super Cartel, who, at one point, controlled around a third of Europe’s $20-billion-a-year cocaine industry.
On April 17th, 48 hours after the High Court in Ireland issued a warrant for his arrest, Kinahan was finally apprehended. Irish prosecutors are seeking a single charge against him: directing the activities of a criminal organization. But the charge is wide-ranging. Prosecutors will argue that, between 2015 and 2017, Kinahan was involved in at least two murders and two attempted murders that took place during a bloody feud between his group and another Dublin-based organization. In the course of that dispute, at least 18 people were murdered in Ireland and Spain. Ed Caesar writes about how Kinahan’s cocaine empire began to crumble:www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-daniel...