:00:08. > :00:16.A murderous feud that has left Dublin on high alert. A war between
:00:17. > :00:24.two rival factions that has seen bloodshed on the streets of Dublin
:00:25. > :00:26.to the Costa del Sol. One thing you notice is the degree of how
:00:27. > :00:31.aggressive they are, and the violence, they just settled their
:00:32. > :00:36.scores with killing someone. On one side, drugs cartel run from Spain by
:00:37. > :00:42.an Irish family called the Kinahans, a cartel whose inner workings have
:00:43. > :00:45.remained a mystery until now. Tonight, Spotlight exclusively
:00:46. > :00:50.reveals police files that chart the astonishing wealth and global scope
:00:51. > :00:58.of the Kinahan drugs trafficking operation. This is incredible. This
:00:59. > :01:04.says that at one point the cartel decided to buy their own container
:01:05. > :01:08.ship. And for the first time at a meeting with me in Spain,
:01:09. > :01:14.representatives of the Kinahan gang is you a public statement about the
:01:15. > :01:18.ongoing gang war. I have just returned from a meeting with an
:01:19. > :01:21.intermediary on the half of the Kinahans. It is the first time they
:01:22. > :01:22.have spoken to anyone, albeit through a third party, since the
:01:23. > :01:46.recent shootings. Last month, this hotel in Dublin was
:01:47. > :01:54.the scene of one of the most audacious murder attempts in Irish
:01:55. > :02:01.criminal history. At a weighing in for a boxing match with families in
:02:02. > :02:05.attendance, six gunmen entered the building, four of them dressed as a
:02:06. > :02:12.guard of firearms unit. But they were not police, they were here to
:02:13. > :02:24.kill. GUNFIRE.
:02:25. > :02:36.What just happened? I don't know. The hotel where four gunman shot
:02:37. > :02:38.three men, killing one of them, remains sealed off today as the
:02:39. > :03:00.Garda investigation continued. This is Phil Sutcliffe, a boxing
:03:01. > :03:06.trainer here in Dublin's south city. His son was one of the boxes taking
:03:07. > :03:13.part in the weighing in. We know that there was some crackling, and
:03:14. > :03:17.people running, and my son went out of the door. Spotlight has
:03:18. > :03:21.exclusively obtained a sound recording which captures the shock
:03:22. > :03:26.of those trapped inside the hotel. The man you are about to hear hid
:03:27. > :03:48.behind the reception desk just as the shooting began.
:03:49. > :03:56.People are lying on their bellies, frightened. Tables were turned over,
:03:57. > :04:00.kids screaming. I just focused on my son and out of the door, and he
:04:01. > :04:07.happened to run straight into them. Iran's out after him to get him
:04:08. > :04:13.back, and Iranian to them as well. Between the door and the lobby, Phil
:04:14. > :04:16.came face-to-face with a gunman who pointed an AK-47 assault rifle
:04:17. > :04:20.straight at him. But the gunman was dressed as a police officer from the
:04:21. > :04:28.Garda's tactical support unit, complete with helmet and uniform. It
:04:29. > :04:35.was pointed at me through the glass of the door. I opened one of the
:04:36. > :04:43.doors, and he was there, like you are there now. What went through
:04:44. > :04:49.your head? I have seen Garda, and I put my hands up. I said, my son is
:04:50. > :04:56.out there, and I'm going out to get him. And they went in and I went
:04:57. > :05:05.out, and that is when I saw them diving on the ground.
:05:06. > :05:15.Lying dead in the lobby was David Burke, he was 34 and a well-known
:05:16. > :05:18.criminal from Dublin. Can you recall the composure of the shooters? Did
:05:19. > :05:24.they seem calm? Pretty calm. Were you surprised at that?
:05:25. > :05:28.Professionals, very calm. They knew what they were doing, so... Were
:05:29. > :05:39.they taking their time, going around? They were in and out and
:05:40. > :05:44.gone. In and out and gone. The gunman had left a trail of
:05:45. > :05:51.carnage in their wake. Three men injured, two seriously, and David
:05:52. > :05:57.burned dead. But the main target of the attack had escaped. This is
:05:58. > :06:02.Daniel Kinahan. To understand what really happened at the Regecy Hotel
:06:03. > :06:05.last month, and why it said shock waves through the criminal
:06:06. > :06:08.underworld in Ireland and right across Europe, you need to
:06:09. > :06:13.understand the histories of the two criminal factions involved. They are
:06:14. > :06:23.two families who now appear to be in a state of all-out war. The
:06:24. > :06:27.Kinahans, and the Hutches. Daniel Kinahan is widely reported to be the
:06:28. > :06:30.man who now runs a worldwide drugs cartel
:06:31. > :06:32.man who now runs a worldwide drugs on the Costa del Sol. The
:06:33. > :06:35.man who now runs a worldwide drugs organisation was originally set up
:06:36. > :06:38.by his father, Christopher Kinahan, or Christy
:06:39. > :06:41.by his father, Christopher Kinahan, for Spain in 2001, and established a
:06:42. > :06:45.global empire for Spain in 2001, and established a
:06:46. > :06:48.importation and distribution of drugs. It is an empire that
:06:49. > :06:50.importation and distribution of reported to be worth over 1 billion
:06:51. > :07:00.euros. Christy Kinahan senior has reported to be worth over 1 billion
:07:01. > :07:04.surpassed all levels of wealth and criminality that have previously
:07:05. > :07:06.emerged from this country. He is a man that is organising
:07:07. > :07:11.drug-trafficking shipments right across Europe. The Kinahan family
:07:12. > :07:15.associate in Ireland, and have a associate in Ireland, and have a
:07:16. > :07:17.list of loyal lieutenants who travel back and forth regularly between
:07:18. > :07:22.Dublin and Marbella. back and forth regularly between
:07:23. > :07:24.is a boxing fan, and is closely associated with the gym in my Beyer
:07:25. > :07:32.called MGM. -- in Marbella. associated with the gym in my Beyer
:07:33. > :07:35.travelled to see fighters from the associated with the gym in my Beyer
:07:36. > :07:42.gym due to boxer to fight in Dublin, and that is why he was at the
:07:43. > :07:47.weighing in. So, who was it that tried to kill him? The initial clues
:07:48. > :07:52.point to some level of involvement from dissident republicans. The
:07:53. > :07:57.first and biggest clue for the authorities comes from this
:07:58. > :08:03.photograph. It was taken just after the shooting, and it shows two men
:08:04. > :08:08.fleeing the scene carrying weapons. One of them had been dressed as a
:08:09. > :08:15.woman. The other way as a peaked cap. Neither is wearing a mask. For
:08:16. > :08:18.an operation that seems to have been carried out with ruthless
:08:19. > :08:28.professionalism, it seems to be a remarkable oversight. The Fota --
:08:29. > :08:30.photograph was taken by a journalist from the Sunday world newspaper.
:08:31. > :08:35.Nicola Tallant as an investigative journalist with the Sunday world
:08:36. > :08:38.newspaper. Initially the photographer himself thought that he
:08:39. > :08:43.had taken a photograph of a gunman running from the scene with a woman
:08:44. > :08:47.fleeing beside him. But on close inspection when we blew the picture
:08:48. > :08:50.up, you could clearly see that it wasn't a woman fleeing, it was
:08:51. > :08:56.another gunman dressed in drag, such a clear image, and I suppose it did
:08:57. > :08:59.take is a while to realise that this was the most significant piece of
:09:00. > :09:04.evidence that has ever been gathered at a gangland crime scene, and there
:09:05. > :09:08.are repercussions for that. Some of those repercussions have included
:09:09. > :09:14.death threats for the Sunday world journalists. Its significance was
:09:15. > :09:17.seen across the world, but here in Europe, journalists are being
:09:18. > :09:22.threatened by an organised crime gang, it is like something from
:09:23. > :09:27.Mexico. At the Sunday world had to pixelate the photos when the guard I
:09:28. > :09:32.threatened to injure the paper, saying that revealing the gunman's
:09:33. > :09:36.identities would hinder the investigation. Nevertheless,
:09:37. > :09:41.insecurity, legal and journalistic circles, the identity of the man in
:09:42. > :09:44.the peaked is widely known. My understanding is he is a man from
:09:45. > :09:49.the north of Ireland who has paramilitary history. He has been
:09:50. > :09:53.involved in a number of paramilitary groups and has been expelled from
:09:54. > :09:57.some of them. Clearly he is a hit man far higher. Spotlight uncovered
:09:58. > :10:02.this picture which, until recently, was on the web page of a fitness
:10:03. > :10:07.centre in County Tyrone. We have disguised as identity, but it
:10:08. > :10:10.appears to be the same man. He's a dissident republican who in the past
:10:11. > :10:15.has been charged with firearms offences with regard to attacks on
:10:16. > :10:20.drug dealers. Spotlight understands that he has now fled to England. The
:10:21. > :10:28.weapons used in the attack also indicated that the attackers had
:10:29. > :10:30.dissident republican connections. My understanding is that these are
:10:31. > :10:36.Kalashnikov assault rifles that were previously owned by the provisional
:10:37. > :10:40.IRA and fell into the hands of this group. Spotlight understands that
:10:41. > :10:45.the IRA investigated the hotel shooting and the weapons -- how the
:10:46. > :10:50.weapons, once part of their arsenal, were used in the attack. These
:10:51. > :10:53.weapons were loaned to the group and they have carried out the raid, the
:10:54. > :11:13.military assault, at the Regency. Days after the shooting, the BBC
:11:14. > :11:20.received a statement which claims the Dublin keening Philly, --
:11:21. > :11:23.claimed the Dublin killing Philly Continuity IRA, but the next day
:11:24. > :11:27.they issued a statement denying involvement in the shooting and
:11:28. > :11:33.playing it on criminals -- blaming it on criminals. I went to visit as
:11:34. > :11:36.Dalton from Republican Sinn Fein, political organisation widely
:11:37. > :11:41.considered to be the political wing of the Continuity IRA. What was your
:11:42. > :11:45.reaction when you heard the Continuity IRA had been involved in
:11:46. > :11:49.some capacity in the shooting? My immediate reaction was that this is
:11:50. > :11:55.bogus, it didn't have any credibility, and indeed that was the
:11:56. > :12:00.sense that I was getting from any of the media people who were in contact
:12:01. > :12:07.with me. But it does seem that there is some sort of split within the
:12:08. > :12:11.Continuity IRA? Yes, to my knowledge, and within Republican
:12:12. > :12:17.Sinn Fein there was a section, another pupil dismissed for
:12:18. > :12:24.connections with criminality back in 2010. Within Sinn Fein or the
:12:25. > :12:27.Continuity IRA? The Continuity IRA. So it appears there is some
:12:28. > :12:32.involvement from Rogner public elements, possibly a splinter group
:12:33. > :12:36.from the Continuity IRA. But the assumption by many people who know
:12:37. > :12:40.this story is that those dissident republican elements were acting on
:12:41. > :12:44.behalf of a well-known Dublin criminal. George hutch, also known
:12:45. > :12:57.as the Monk. Gerard Hutch is criminal career
:12:58. > :13:04.started here in North inner-city Dublin. Brian Sherry is a retired
:13:05. > :13:08.Garda detective who during his time as a young officer on Dublin 's
:13:09. > :13:17.northside came to known Gerard Hutch well. He was part of what was known
:13:18. > :13:26.locally Indian city of Dublin as Bugsy Malone. They were a small
:13:27. > :13:31.criminal gang that used to run riot, shoplifting and pickpocketing. But
:13:32. > :13:35.in the late 80s, he progressed to much more serious crime. Gerard
:13:36. > :13:40.Hutch did not deal in or take drugs, claiming that they were destroying
:13:41. > :13:47.his community. Because of his clean living, he became known as the Monk
:13:48. > :13:51.and that is how he got his nickname. His crime of choice was robbery and
:13:52. > :13:55.in the 1980s and his name was associated with two of the biggest
:13:56. > :14:00.cash robberies in the history of the Irish state. He was suspected of
:14:01. > :14:11.being behind the robbery of ?1.7 million from Securicor transit van
:14:12. > :14:17.in North Dublin in 1987. And then in 1995, he was the prime suspect for
:14:18. > :14:22.the Brinks Allied depot robbery in Closhaugh in North Dublin in which
:14:23. > :14:27.robbers escaped with ?3 million. I arrested Gerard at his home and
:14:28. > :14:32.brought him down to the station and we questioned him there for quite a
:14:33. > :14:35.number of days. There was no sufficient evidence with which to
:14:36. > :14:43.pursue a charge against him in the courts. But he was not the only
:14:44. > :14:47.suspect in the huge robberies. Garda intelligence suggested they had been
:14:48. > :14:52.carried out with help from members of the provisional IRA and that the
:14:53. > :15:00.proceeds had been split between his gang and Republicans. It is believed
:15:01. > :15:02.by the gardai that Gerard was involved in these robberies with
:15:03. > :15:09.people that were involved in the IRA at that tickle a time. Gerard Hutch
:15:10. > :15:14.was never convicted of either robbery but the allegations alone
:15:15. > :15:19.gained him notoriety. The Monk became a household name. In 2008, he
:15:20. > :15:22.even went on national television. He was asked once again if he carried
:15:23. > :15:25.out the two robberies but said he had become rich by getting money
:15:26. > :15:31.from an insurance claim and then investing it in property. One minute
:15:32. > :15:36.you are a guy who has no money who has grown up in poverty. You get a
:15:37. > :15:40.compensation claim and now you are a multimillionaire. And
:15:41. > :15:43.coincidentally, around the same time, two of the biggest armed
:15:44. > :15:47.robberies in the history of the state are carried out. And you are
:15:48. > :15:52.linked to both of them. Yeah. That is it. Do you really expect people
:15:53. > :15:59.to believe that? I don't believe what they -- care what they believe
:16:00. > :16:03.to be honest but what do I say? If everybody believes I did it, hands
:16:04. > :16:09.up I did not do it. That is all I can say. By the time of his TV
:16:10. > :16:12.interview in 2008, Gerard Hutch could be described as a celebrity
:16:13. > :16:20.criminal but it seemed that he was also a retired one. In 2000, Gerard
:16:21. > :16:22.Hutch played in the region of ?1 million to the criminal assets
:16:23. > :16:29.bureau in the Republic despite never having been convicted of the major
:16:30. > :16:31.robberies. He then appeared to focus on his property empires. Gerard
:16:32. > :16:35.Hutch may have thought he had finally found the quiet life but all
:16:36. > :16:43.of that was about to change in a big way. This is Gary Hutch, Gerard
:16:44. > :16:48.Hutch is their view. And the central reason for this gangland war. Like
:16:49. > :16:54.his notorious uncle, Gary Hutch started a life of crime as a
:16:55. > :16:59.teenager. In 2001, he was jailed for robbing a jeweller 's shop. After he
:17:00. > :17:03.got out of prison, he drifted into the drugs trade, an area of crime
:17:04. > :17:08.that his uncle had famously stayed away from. He amassed a string of
:17:09. > :17:13.convictions and gained a reputation as a ruthless and violent gangster.
:17:14. > :17:18.But above all, Gary Hutch was ambitious. And for an ambitious
:17:19. > :17:24.Irish gangster in the early to thousands, there was only one place
:17:25. > :17:29.to go and one gang to work for. Sometime in the middle of the last
:17:30. > :17:32.decade, Gary Hutch decided that he would go and work for the Kinahan
:17:33. > :17:38.family in Spain. He started off working as a bodyguard for Daniel
:17:39. > :17:44.Kinahan. He became a link between two powerful factions, the Hutches
:17:45. > :18:03.and the Kinahans but it would all go very, very wrong.
:18:04. > :18:11.Marbella, Spain. It is not just holiday-makers who find the Costa
:18:12. > :18:17.Del Sol congenial. This part of Spain earned the nickname Costa Del
:18:18. > :18:22.crime in the late 1970s after the collapse of an extradition treaty
:18:23. > :18:26.between the UK and Spain. The loophole was closed in 1985 but by
:18:27. > :18:32.then, dozens of reddish criminals on the run had moved here. Irish crime
:18:33. > :18:40.figures relocated here following the introduction of the criminal assets
:18:41. > :18:46.bureau. But moving wealth beyond the reach of the authorities is not the
:18:47. > :18:51.only attraction. The Costa Del Sol is a hub for the international
:18:52. > :18:55.narcotics trade. Morocco, which is visible across this stretch of sea,
:18:56. > :19:01.is the gateway for the North African cannabis market and the language
:19:02. > :19:05.here and the cultural links to the cocaine producing regions of South
:19:06. > :19:07.America makes seven Spain the ideal base for importing and distributing
:19:08. > :19:26.product. Local journalist Berta Gonzalez de
:19:27. > :19:33.Vega says that individuals who moved here are rarely asked about the
:19:34. > :19:38.source of their wealth. It is not a very close community. They don't
:19:39. > :19:44.care. You can start playing golf in a clubhouse and you have your group
:19:45. > :19:52.of friends but you do not really ask what do you do besides playing golf
:19:53. > :19:56.with me. Drug dealers, they want to live well, they do not want to live
:19:57. > :20:00.in a horrible place but they lead to beautiful lives here. They do not
:20:01. > :20:08.get asked about their business, they can have children horse jumping,
:20:09. > :20:13.playing golf, boxing. The Kinahan crime gang took up residence here
:20:14. > :20:18.almost 15 years ago. The operation was started by Christy Kinahan. Like
:20:19. > :20:23.his counterpart Gerry Hutch, Rusty Kinahan grew up in inner-city Dublin
:20:24. > :20:30.although he was from the south side of the city. He was convicted of
:20:31. > :20:37.drugs offences in the late 1990s and went to Mountjoy Prison in Dublin.
:20:38. > :20:45.He utilised his time in prison to actually better himself and wanted
:20:46. > :20:49.to learn and go online and do educational courses and became quite
:20:50. > :20:51.fluent in different languages. Few would have thought it then but
:20:52. > :20:57.Christy Kinahan was laying the foundations for an empire. Fluent in
:20:58. > :21:03.Spanish and Dutch, he was released from prison in 2001 and made his way
:21:04. > :21:08.to Spain. Then he made connections with Irish and UK criminals and
:21:09. > :21:17.started importing and distributing drugs. His business grew and grew.
:21:18. > :21:21.He was seen as the person to go to. He would set up the connections and
:21:22. > :21:28.the distribution and that was his forte. That is how he became so huge
:21:29. > :21:34.in that both business. Some believe Christy Kinahan has made hundreds of
:21:35. > :21:40.millions of pounds from the importation and distribution of
:21:41. > :21:44.heroin, cocaine and cannabis. That was always a matter of speculation
:21:45. > :21:49.until the Spanish led police operation uncovered the scale of the
:21:50. > :21:53.Kinahan cartel. In June 2008, the European police umbrella group
:21:54. > :21:58.Europe all held a meeting of police forces from all over Europe. They
:21:59. > :22:03.decided to investigate the Kinahans. The investigation would be codenamed
:22:04. > :22:08.Operation Shovel. It became a wide-ranging and forensic
:22:09. > :22:15.investigation but the Itzhak details have never been made public. Until
:22:16. > :22:19.now. During our visit to Spain, we managed to obtain a leaked copy of
:22:20. > :22:26.the Spanish police files on Operation Shovel. Spotlight has
:22:27. > :22:29.exclusively obtained details of the police investigation into
:22:30. > :22:34.Christopher Kinahan and what is described as the Kinahan
:22:35. > :22:37.organisation. The investigation centres on allegations of drug
:22:38. > :22:46.trafficking, gun trafficking and money-laundering and the details in
:22:47. > :22:49.this case are astounding. The investigation led by Spanish
:22:50. > :22:56.authorities also incorporated specialist police teams in Belgium,
:22:57. > :23:04.Ireland and the UK. The files reveal some fascinating details about how
:23:05. > :23:07.the cartel worked from the inside. In Spain, Christy Kinahan was living
:23:08. > :23:27.and outwardly modest life. He shunned the sprawling villas,
:23:28. > :23:30.nestled in the hills. Home instead was an apartment in this beach-side
:23:31. > :23:36.combat. A secure gated community for a man whose spotlight can reveal was
:23:37. > :23:42.fully aware that his business was of interest to the police. In 2009, the
:23:43. > :23:46.organised crime and drugs unit of the Spanish police sought and were
:23:47. > :23:51.granted judicial permission to wiretap the phones of a number of
:23:52. > :23:55.individuals associated with the Kinahan cartel. That included
:23:56. > :24:04.Christopher Kinahan, the director of the cartel. His elbows son Daniel
:24:05. > :24:08.and Gary Hutch. The wiretaps reveal the lengths the gang went to in
:24:09. > :24:14.order to keep it business private. They used phones that with advanced
:24:15. > :24:19.encryption. Each handset cost in the region of ?2000. Even these phones
:24:20. > :24:29.were frequency destroyed and Sim cards change greatly. The police
:24:30. > :24:33.files reveal that annual Kinahan live the life of high security and
:24:34. > :24:40.stream caution. Everywhere he went he was always accompanied by
:24:41. > :24:44.security guards. He was rarely photographed and never shared
:24:45. > :24:47.personal information online. The Spanish surveillance teams had their
:24:48. > :24:52.work cut out. Nevertheless they penetrated the cartel through a
:24:53. > :24:57.series of wiretaps and what they discovered was astonishing. The
:24:58. > :25:02.wiretaps revealed investments and business dealings stretching beyond
:25:03. > :25:11.Europe to South America, South Africa, as well as the Cayman
:25:12. > :25:17.Islands and Dubai. The police intelligence files show that
:25:18. > :25:21.convicted Dublin criminal Freddie Thompson pictured here at the
:25:22. > :25:25.funeral of the Hotel shooting victim was in charge of obtaining guns for
:25:26. > :25:31.other members of the cartel, including Gary Hutch. The following
:25:32. > :25:57.comes directly from the transcripts of those wiretaps.
:25:58. > :26:04.The Kinahan spared no expense in training their lieutenants. The
:26:05. > :26:07.wiretaps reveal how men are -- members of the Kinahan cartel
:26:08. > :26:10.including Gary Hutch received training in special weapons and
:26:11. > :26:16.tactics at a private military contractors facility in Austria.
:26:17. > :26:23.This was a global cartel, prepared to defend itself with extreme
:26:24. > :26:28.violence. And contained within these documents are incredible details
:26:29. > :26:34.about the scale of ambition the gang had and the financial resources
:26:35. > :26:37.available to it. Remember the cartel was shipping drugs around the world,
:26:38. > :26:45.using shipping companies to unwittingly smuggled their
:26:46. > :26:55.merchandise. So why not simply cut out the middleman and buy your own
:26:56. > :26:58.transport? This is incredible. This says that at one point the cartel
:26:59. > :27:05.decided to buy their own container ship.
:27:06. > :27:10.Another security weakness for drug traffickers is the inspections
:27:11. > :27:17.carried out at ports and marinas in Europe. The police files reveal how
:27:18. > :27:24.at one point, Christy Kinahan suggested that the gangs simply by
:27:25. > :27:27.their own marina. The wiretaps revealed the gang discussing how
:27:28. > :27:33.their container ship would be used to report what they refer to as
:27:34. > :27:39.sugar from South America. Here, Christy Kinahan talks to an
:27:40. > :27:40.associate about bringing Ian another commodity from Asia, what they refer
:27:41. > :28:01.to as rice. S it was an operation on a vast
:28:02. > :28:19.scale. For several years, it must've seemed
:28:20. > :28:25.like the perfect moneymaking criminal operation. Breathtaking in
:28:26. > :28:29.its scope and size. And fire time, the Kinahans' greatest achievement
:28:30. > :28:37.was to conduct business the kind of violence that would draw too much
:28:38. > :28:43.attention. But in 2008, all of that changed. That year, a gang member,
:28:44. > :28:49.Paddy Doyle, was suggested by the cartel of crossing them. The
:28:50. > :28:53.decision was taken to kill him. He was being driven around Marbella by
:28:54. > :29:00.his friend Gary Hutch when a gunman pulled up and shot it multiple
:29:01. > :29:07.times. Gary Hutch escaped unharmed but had witnesses to -- witnessed at
:29:08. > :29:13.close hand the consequences of betraying the cartel. What the
:29:14. > :29:18.Kinahans didn't know was that by now, officers from Operation Shovel
:29:19. > :29:25.were investigating their financial affairs and transactions. In 2009,
:29:26. > :29:30.Belgian police were alerted to the suspicious transfer of funds into a
:29:31. > :29:35.Belgian bank account. The money came from a Cyprus -based company linked
:29:36. > :29:40.to Christy Kinahan. He had purchased three properties in Belgium, one of
:29:41. > :29:43.them Spotlight understands was a small commercial building at the
:29:44. > :29:49.behest of his wife, who wish to open the shop. On the basis of these
:29:50. > :29:54.transactions, the Belgian police managed to convicted Christy Kinahan
:29:55. > :30:00.of money-laundering, but by now, he was back in Spain.
:30:01. > :30:10.The 25th of May 20 ten. The day the police decided to move against the
:30:11. > :30:14.Kinahans. Europol had deployed three Mobile offices in Spain, the UK and
:30:15. > :30:20.Ireland for the coordinated day of action against the cartel. Christy
:30:21. > :30:22.Kinahan was wearing his boxer shorts when handcuffed by Spanish police
:30:23. > :30:29.after they raided his Marbella apartment. At the end of that day,
:30:30. > :30:34.they had in all been some 47 searches, total of 38 arrests across
:30:35. > :30:40.Spain, the UK, Ireland and Bulgaria, 60 properties and 25 cars had been
:30:41. > :30:47.seized, and 180 bank accounts frozen. When you look through the
:30:48. > :30:52.files from Operation Shovel, the detail is astounding. There are
:30:53. > :30:58.lists of bank accounts, companies said to be fronts the laundering
:30:59. > :31:02.drug money, transcripts of wiretaps. It is all here. We've had these
:31:03. > :31:07.files were less than two weeks. The Spanish authorities have had them
:31:08. > :31:11.for six years. Six years in which there hasn't been a single
:31:12. > :31:15.prosecution for drug trafficking, six years in which there have been
:31:16. > :31:22.plenty of bodies on the streets of Dublin and Spain. In 2014, a Dublin
:31:23. > :31:29.man, linked to the Kinahan cartel, was shot dead. Gerard Kavanagh was
:31:30. > :31:34.sitting in that Irish bar. He was said to have just ordered a drink,
:31:35. > :31:36.and a gunman burst in. Eyewitnesses claimed that he tried to flee, but
:31:37. > :31:45.it was too late. Cracks were appearing in the
:31:46. > :31:49.organisation. Gangsters who had once been loyal were going out on their
:31:50. > :31:55.own, trying to set up their own operations. They were picked off one
:31:56. > :32:01.by one, and the public started to notice. Marbella lawyer Antonio
:32:02. > :32:08.Flores says that the Irish gang-related violence was causing
:32:09. > :32:13.alarm. One thing you notice is the degree of how aggressive they are,
:32:14. > :32:20.the violin. Traditionally, we have not had so many killings here in the
:32:21. > :32:27.past as we are having now. Now just seems to be that, whenever there is
:32:28. > :32:32.a dispute between gangs, then they just settle their scores with
:32:33. > :32:37.killing someone. Now it was Gary Hutch's turn. Once trusted henchmen
:32:38. > :32:42.of Daniel Kinahan's, he now fell under suspicion as a police
:32:43. > :32:48.informant. Overnight, he became a marked man, with a price on his
:32:49. > :32:52.head, Gary Hutch fled to Dublin. And it seems that he was saved by his
:32:53. > :32:57.name. Even the Kinahans would think twice about killing a Hutch.
:32:58. > :33:02.Instead, the two families negotiated. There was some sort of
:33:03. > :33:06.truth organise whereby there was compensation paid of 200,000 euros
:33:07. > :33:11.to the Kinahans to allow them to save face, and both sides walked
:33:12. > :33:17.away from this. But then Gary Hutch made the biggest miscalculation of
:33:18. > :33:23.his life. He decided to return to Spain, apparently to set up his own
:33:24. > :33:28.empire. He must have felt that his name made him untouchable. It
:33:29. > :33:34.didn't. In September last year, the Kinahan gang caught up with him.
:33:35. > :33:40.Gary Hutch had just returned home after a morning jog when he was
:33:41. > :33:44.confronted by a masked gunman. He tried to escape, and ended up
:33:45. > :33:48.running out here, only to be chased around the swimming pool by the
:33:49. > :33:53.gunman. He had survived two previous attempt on his life.
:33:54. > :34:06.But he didn't survive this one. And it didn't stop there. Gerry Hutch,
:34:07. > :34:09.the patriarch of the Hutch plan, was on holiday in Lanzarote when two
:34:10. > :34:13.gunman entered a bar to kill him minutes after he had left. The
:34:14. > :34:22.Kinahan cartel had just declared war. It is thought that last month's
:34:23. > :34:26.Regecy Hotel attack was direct revenge for Gary Hutch's gas, and in
:34:27. > :34:29.particular, attempts to kill his uncle, the Monk. But just days
:34:30. > :34:36.later, the Kinahans seemingly struck back. Gerard Hutch's brother, Eddie
:34:37. > :34:45.Hutch, an innocent man, was shot dead. Many believe Edward hutch was
:34:46. > :34:50.an easy target, murdered because of his surname. A gang of at least four
:34:51. > :34:54.men, locals say, shot him dead in the hallway of his apartment. I
:34:55. > :35:01.wanted to speak with Daniel Kinahan, the man now said to run the cartel.
:35:02. > :35:07.I'm on my way to MGM gym in Marbella. It is a location via
:35:08. > :35:16.Daniel Kinahan is said to spend a lot of time when he's in Spain.
:35:17. > :35:20.Are reporting a programme for the BBC, I was looking to speak to
:35:21. > :35:31.Daniel Kinahan he's here. Daniel Kinahan isn't here today. The
:35:32. > :35:36.receptionist on the desk claims he doesn't even speak English, and he
:35:37. > :35:41.claims as well not to know Daniel Kinahan. It's quite easy in there
:35:42. > :35:49.today, but clearly they don't want to speak to the press. I contacted
:35:50. > :35:53.various people who I knew to be associates of Daniel Kinahan. I was
:35:54. > :35:58.told he didn't want to talk. Then, on my last evening in Spain, I got a
:35:59. > :36:01.call. And intermediaries for the Kinahan family said he wanted to
:36:02. > :36:07.meet me in a bar in Marbella with no cameras. I went to meet him, and
:36:08. > :36:13.what appeared to be several other gang members.
:36:14. > :36:19.I've just returned from a meeting with an intermediary on the half of
:36:20. > :36:23.the Kinahans. It's the first time they have spoken to anyone, albeit
:36:24. > :36:29.through a third-party, the recent shootings. The source spoke
:36:30. > :36:34.exclusively to Spotlight, and said that negotiations are currently in
:36:35. > :36:38.process between the two rival factions. The source is especially
:36:39. > :36:44.close to Daniel Kinahan, and described him as being as strong as
:36:45. > :36:49.not. The source said that the whole situation is regrettable, and the
:36:50. > :36:53.regret manifests from the fact that the Monk decided that a family event
:36:54. > :36:59.was the right place to make his mark. The source also said that
:37:00. > :37:04.going forward, the Kinahans can guarantee balance and fairness in
:37:05. > :37:10.what already is a difficult situation. Clearly these remarks are
:37:11. > :37:15.ambiguous. They could be interpreted as conciliatory or in a more
:37:16. > :37:18.threatening way. Because Daniel Kinahan wouldn't meet with us, we
:37:19. > :37:23.were not in a position to question him further as we would have done in
:37:24. > :37:28.an interview. This is as much as the intermediary was prepared to say.
:37:29. > :37:33.The big question is, given the scale of Operation Shovel, and the
:37:34. > :37:36.existence of this information, that we now have an opposition while
:37:37. > :37:43.almost 80 years on, as no one had been charged. -- almost eight years
:37:44. > :37:49.on. Spotlight understands that in Spain, charges of drug and gun
:37:50. > :37:52.trafficking for the Kynaston is -- Kinahans are unlikely.
:37:53. > :38:00.Money-laundering remains the only offence they will be charged with.
:38:01. > :38:08.Basically, Spain's criminal system is only fit for chicken thieves,
:38:09. > :38:11.that was what the judge said. That summarises the criminal judicially.
:38:12. > :38:16.Why is it so ineffective and so inefficient in dealing with cases?
:38:17. > :38:20.The National Crime Agency told Spotlight that it does not routinely
:38:21. > :38:26.confirm or deny the existence of investigations. In the Republic, the
:38:27. > :38:30.Garda say that Operation Shovel investigation is ongoing. Michael
:38:31. > :38:38.O'Sullivan is head of the Garda drugs and organised crime bureau. In
:38:39. > :38:42.the last 12 months, millions of euros worth of drugs have been
:38:43. > :38:49.seized from the cartel. Given the extent of Operation Shovel, why has
:38:50. > :38:54.no one been charged? This is quite a long campaign against a number of
:38:55. > :38:57.cartels, and it is another move by the police and law enforcement
:38:58. > :39:04.agencies in respect of a criminal group, so it is impossible to say,
:39:05. > :39:10.one job, nobody was arrested, and therefore it is a failure. It's not
:39:11. > :39:16.over. It's never over. You like this week, the Gardy have raided numerous
:39:17. > :39:19.properties in what they say is an ongoing investigation into drugs
:39:20. > :39:23.gangs. It seems that the recent killings may have reignited the
:39:24. > :39:28.remains of Operation Shovel, and that once again, the Kinahan cartel
:39:29. > :39:34.is under pressure. What is clear now is that their organisation is more
:39:35. > :39:38.than just a gang. It's an empire, with roots and assets across the
:39:39. > :39:42.world. And one that may never be fully unravelled.