DUBAI: An Irish court on Sunday charged alleged cartel boss Daniel Kinahan with directing a criminal organization and remanded him in custody after his extradition from the UAE on a government jet.
The 49-year-old Irishman appeared in court after being flown back on Sunday evening from Dubai on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by Ireland.
He is alleged to be one of the leaders of a transnational group, known as the Kinahan Organized Crime Group (KOCG) or the Kinahan cartel.
The Irish government jet reportedly carrying Kinahan landed at Casement Aerodrome, a military air base west of Dublin at about 6.30pm local time as a helicopter circled overhead, an AFP video journalist saw.
Shortly afterwards a high-speed convoy of cars with blacked-out windows sped out of the gates, sirens blaring, watched by a crowd of people on the roadside.
