Daniel Kinahan been charged with directing a criminal organisation - so what does that mean?

The charge the alleged organised crime boss faces was created two decades ago to deal with feuding gangs in Limerick city and a growing and murderous Dublin gangland ecosystem.

Daniel Kinahan sounded bemused when he described the frenzy around his life as “movie stuff”, but the scenes that accompanied his trip back to Ireland were undeniably cinematic. A trip on a €53m government jet that was tracked by the public in real-time, a ring of steel around parts of Dublin as he was escorted in a bo

Daniel Kinahan charged with directing organised crime  The Times

The suspected crime boss (49) appeared before Dublin’s Special Criminal Court on Sunday.

He was earlier extradited to Ireland from Dubai on an Irish Government jet.

Dubliner on Sunday became first Irish person to be extradited from United Arab Emirates after he was flown to Dublin on Government jet

⁠Irish prosecutors charged alleged Irish ‌crime gang boss Daniel Kinahan with ⁠directing a criminal organisation ‌at a special ‌court sitting ⁠late ⁠on ‌Sunday following his extradition ‌from ‌the ‌United Arab ⁠Emirates. Kinahan, 49, faces charges that he ran an international drug smuggling and money-laundering empire

Daniel Kinahan has been charged with directing the activities of a criminal organisation during an appearance at the Special Criminal Court.