Firestarter wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2024 6:58 amIn the trial against Mink Kok, for the arms and drugs in his house in Amsterdam, his attorneys demanded that his testimony would be behind closed doors. But then they forgot to turn of the microphones, so that the present journalists could hear Mink telling about being a police informer for the BVD and the IRT team.
Since 1998, when he made his deal with Fred Teeven, Mink Kok also became an informer of Teeven.
According to American media, the Kinahan Cartel is one of the biggest criminal organisations in Europe. The most important reason for my interest in these Irish criminals is the connection to none other than Mink Kok, who is high on my list of the most important European drug traffickers and a prime suspect in the numerous murders of these criminals.
In the 1990s, Christy ‘Dapper Don’ Kinahan began working closely with (or for?!?) Mink Kok, when both were based in Amsterdam. Together they imported millions of euros worth of cocaine and ecstasy into Ireland and the UK.
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Firestarter wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 7:42 pmLast year Mink Kok and his “son” Najim Z. (actually the son-in-law of Kok’s wife) were arrested in Lebanon. When Kok was arrested he also had a stockpile of weapons, as obviously he wasn’t only dealing drugs but also selling arms. Both have been charged in the Netherlands with multiple crimes (including trafficking hundreds of kilos of cocaine).
Kok's “son-in-law”, Najim Z, is named as a “leader” in the network of Ridouan Taghi, another associate of the Kinahan organisation.
Najim Z was one of the criminals at Daniel Kinahan’s (Christy’s son) wedding in Dubai in 2017:
https://www.crimeworld.com/courts/boss- ... 72478.html
According to the following, Daniel Kinahan double-crossed Robert Mink Kok.
The Lebanese brothers of Mink Kok’s wife are associated with the Kinahan cartel:
https://archive.is/j30yg
The following overlong New Yorker article on the “Super Cartel” (which involves Kinahan) seems based on allegations from the cops, conveniently leaving out that drug trafficking is controlled by intelligence agencies. It often isn’t clear what the evidence is for these ‘facts’.
It also includes some peculiar accusations against money laundering by Hezbollah, which somehow automatically proves that Iran is involved?!?
In 1996, crime journalist Veronica Guerin was shot dead by a member of the Gilligans gang. The public outrage was used by the Irish government to establish the Criminal Assets Bureau, after which Dublin mobsters moved to Amsterdam, which at the time was a place where criminals could freely party and collaborate.
Christy Kinahan Sr. together with John Cunningham moved to Amsterdam from where they were trafficking heroin, cannabis, cocaine, Ecstasy, and guns to Ireland. At the same time Daniel Kinahan was running drugs in Dublin for his dad, while his younger brother Christy Kinahan Jr. was groomed for organising money laundering.
In 2001, Kinahan Sr. moved his base to the Spanish Costa del Sol, which had become the favoured spot for the Amsterdam mobsters. Spain was ideally situated for the Kinahans’ cannabis imports, with the cannabis coming from Morocco.
The Kinahans were grossing at least tens of millions of dollars per year. Kinahan Sr. used the dark cash to establish “legitimate companies”, which included companies registered in Cyprus and real estate in the Kingdom of Belgium (where he also sometimes lived).
Daniel Kinahan supposedly built the network of criminals, most of them from the Netherlands, that became the Super Cartel.
If most of these criminals came from the Netherlands, isn’t it more likely that it was set up by a Dutch gangster (like Mink Kok)?!?
Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese militia, was involved in cocaine trafficking especially through the Netherlands, whose vast port in Rotterdam offered a “reliable way to sneak drugs into Europe”.
In 2008, Paddy Doyle, who was working with the Kinahans, was assassinated in the Spanish town of Estepona. Doyle was riding in a car driven by Gary Hutch (a nephew of the Irish Hutch gang’s patriarch, Gerry), who escaped unharmed. This was used as an argument for the costly Operation Shovel, an ‘investigation’ of the Kinahans in which Spanish law enforcement collaborated with other international police forces.
In May 2010, in a series of raids in Spain, Ireland, and the U.K., Kinahan, Sr., his 2 sons, and more than 30 other associates were arrested, 180 of their bank accounts frozen, and dozens of properties on the Costa del Sol, among other assets, were seized.
Apparently the Kinahan Organized Crime Group were trafficking cocaine from South America to Europe and money-laundered hundreds of millions of euros, which also involved Hezbollah. Even though the cops claim they have evidence, Kinahan Sr., his sons, and their closest associates were released without charges being filed against them, while some minor criminals were punished for passport fraud or illegal gun possession.
According to DEA agent Jack Kelly, the Kinahans often worked with a powerful Hezbollah operative nicknamed “the Ghost”, that was really a connection of none other than Mink Kok.
According to Kelly, in 2015 the Kinahan group arranged the assassination of the Iranian electrician Mohammad Reza Kolahi in Almere (in the Netherlands) as a favour to Hezbollah, as supposedly Iran wanted him death. Naoufal (the Belly) Fassih, who allegedly orchestrated the assassination, later attended Daniel Kinahan’s 2017 wedding.
In May 2017, Daniel Kinahan married Caoimhe Robinson at a posh hotel in Dubai (in the UAE where else?!!). The guests included some of the most powerful cocaine traffickers in the world, like the Moroccan-Dutch Ridouan Taghi; the Bosnian-Dutch Edin Gačanin, who led the Tito and Dino cartel; the major Chilean drug importer, Ricardo (El Rico) Riquelme Vega; and the Italian linked to the Camorra, Raffaele Imperiale. Another guest was the former heavyweight champion of the world Tyson Fury, who has worked with boxing enthusiast Daniel Kinahan.
Most of the Super Cartel’s top members, except the Kinahans, have since been sentenced to years in prison. In 2019, Taghi was arrested in Dubai and deported to the Netherlands, where he was sentenced to life in prison. In 2022, Gačanin was arrested in Dubai and in 2023 convicted by a Dutch court; Gačanin later made a deal with prosecutors of 7 years in prison and a million-euro fine. Riquelme was also sentenced to 11 years in the Netherlands and later deported to Italy.
Daniel Kinahan remains free in Dubai. The Kinahan family has used Dubai’s hawala network that allows ‘untraceable’ (probably not really…) money-transfer, which is widely used for money laundering.
Daniel Kinahan was directly involved in signing boxing champion Tyson Fury to Top Rank…
See Tyson Fury with Daniel Kinahan.
In April 2022, the US sanctioned the Kinahan Organized Crime Group, promising a five-million-dollar reward for tips leading to the arrest of Daniel Kinahan; Christy Kinahan Sr.; or Christy Kinahan Jr.
After the US sanctions, the UAE announced that it had frozen all “relevant assets” of the Kinahans in Dubai. This was evidently not done very thoroughly, Daniel’s wife, Caoimhe Robinson, has sold millions of dollars’ worth of property in the UAE since April 2022.
Even the Emirati royals are entangled with these drug criminals. In 2015, Sheikh Marwan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, a son of Dubai’s ruler, bought a majority stake in AA Real Estate Development, a company in which Raffaele Imperiale was another investor.
Text messages suggest that another Super Cartel member, Edin Gačanin, secured protection in the UAE through associates of ‘the’ royal family (there are multiple…):
https://archive.is/MRdcK
In 2008, Raffaele Imperiale became partners in crime with Ricardo (El Rico) Riquelme Vega and Martin (Billy) Meech in Amsterdam. Imperiale, Billy and Rico also knew Mink Kok.
Kok took charge of the operation, which El Rico didn’t like.
After he is arrested, Raffaele Imperiale makes a deal to become a snitch for the cops. I don’t understand how the statements by some criminal as part of a deal are credible: (in Dutch)
https://archive.is/GYp2K
I finish this post with another interesting story that involves Mink Kok…
In August 2014, the boxer Jamie Moore is shot in Marbella (Spain), near the MGM gym of Daniel Kinahan (who probably was the real target of the attack).
The car used by the attacker was a BMW owned by none other than Mink Kok!
So I don’t really understand how this led to the conclusion that the Hutch gang was involved in the attack (the following story has a lot more information that overlaps with the previous New Yorker story):
https://www.misdaadjournalist.nl/2017/0 ... onnection/
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https://archive.is/6tx2H)
