Kinahan: The True Story of Ireland's Mafia - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Birth of a Cartel
Documentary following the Kinahans from a small-time street-dealing gang in 80s Dublin to its status today as one of the world's most feared crime organisations. It's a story of underworld feuding, double-dealing, betrayal and gangland assassinations, from the streets of Ireland and the UK to the Netherlands, Spain, Dubai and America.
Today, the United States has a $5 million bounty on the heads of senior cartel members, godfather Christopher 'Christy' Kinahan and his two sons Daniel and Christy Junior. The cartel is wanted for drugs and firearms trafficking, money laundering and murder. To date, Daniel and Christy Junior have never been convicted of any serious crimes, and all three Kinahans remain at large.
The Kinahan story starts almost half a century ago in inner-city Dublin, where Christy Kinahan Senior emerged as a heroin trafficker, before moving to the Netherlands in the 1990s. There, he built his crime gang into a cartel, shifting hundreds of millions of pounds worth of drugs. At the same time, his sons Daniel and Christy Junior were being primed by their father to join the family business.
With the help of exclusive interviews, new insight and detail, this series tells the astonishing tale of the Kinahan family and their incredible journey to the top table of international organised crime.
New Narcos
The Kinahans are making millions from the sale of cocaine and living the high life on the Costa del Sol. They are now one of Europe's leading drug cartels. But there is a price to pay for this, as the underworld gets more violent.
Things start to go wrong for the cartel when it is blamed for a number of murders, attracting the attention of the police in Spain and Ireland. Among the victims is Gary Hutch, who was shot dead after falling out with Daniel Kinahan. When the Hutch organised crime group responds by trying to kill Kinahan, a gang war erupts, leaving 18 people dead. Meanwhile, Daniel takes his first steps in the world of professional boxing.
With the help of exclusive interviews and footage, new insight and detail, this series tells the astonishing tale of the Kinahan cartel and its incredible journey to the top table of international organised crime.
The Feud
Police in the UK and Ireland are on a mission take down senior cartel members and hitmen. The UK arm of the cartel is directing and funding the Kinahans' all-out war on the Hutch crime family in Ireland, and the death toll mounts. The UK's National Crime Agency sets out to try to stop this faction and its feared boss Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh.
In the meantime, the Kinahan family flees to Dubai to evade law enforcement. Despite the mayhem, Daniel Kinahan incredibly reaches the top tier of world boxing as adviser to Tyson ‘The Gypsy King' Fury, who is bidding to regain the title of heavyweight champion of the world.
With the help of exclusive interviews and footage, new insight and detail, this series tells the astonishing tale of the Kinahan cartel and their incredible journey to the top table of international organised crime.
Threat to the State
The final episode shows how the Kinahan story has truly gone global. The programme explores how the Kinahans have been living in hiding in Dubai – beyond the reach of law enforcement - and are believed to be bigger than ever, in terms of the quantities of drugs they move.
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