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He s the violent gangster whose merger with Daniel Kinahan s mob, Italian mafiosa and Eastern European gangs formed a European super cartel.
But Dutch Moroccan Ridouan Taghi is now facing the biggest showdown of his life as authorities in the Netherlands gear up for the high profile Marengo trial expected to get to the heart of the powerful merger of Europe s top mobs.
Taghi is in custody in the Netherlands after a global hunt that saw him tracked to Dubai and which broke every norm that has gone before. Along with 16 of his gang members he will face charges relating to seven murders, including that of a lawyer.
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The Head of the Garda Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau has said that gardaí are dismantling the Kinahan organised crime group.
The gang has been found by the Special Criminal Court to be responsible for drug trafficking and gangland murders and is involved in an ongoing feud with the Hutch organised crime group, which has so far cost 18 lives.
Assistant Commissioner John O Driscoll said today that in the last two years, 65 people have been jailed for longer than five years each for organised crime offences
He said this high rate of convictions was damaging the Kinahan gang.
Assistant Commissioner O Driscoll said that since the murder at the Regency Hotel five years ago, the Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau has seized over €208.5m in drugs, 133 firearms, including military weapons, 5,561 rounds of ammunition and €21.7m in cash.
Two men have been arrested following a €2.5 million drug seizure in north Co Dublin.
The 129kg of suspected cannabis herb, with an estimated street value of €2.58 million, was seized yesterday during an operation by the Garda Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau and Customs in the Lusk area.
The drugs were smuggled in through Dublin port and kept under surveillance.
Armed officers stopped a van in Lusk and seized the drugs.
One man was arrested at the scene, a second man a short time later.
Officers from the Bureau also searched several homes and industrial units.
The two men, aged 45 and 52, are being detained under Section 2 of the Drug Trafficking Act in Balbriggan and Dún Laoghaire garda stations.