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2024-03-21 · Dublin
Peter 'Peadar' Keating, a senior Kinahan cartel member jailed for 11 years in September 2021 for directing a criminal organisation to target James 'Mago' Gately, is awaiting a High Court decision on his extradition to the UK. Keating faces nine alleged offences, including perverting the course of justice and conspiracy to possess firearms,…
2024-03-20 · Dublin
The High Court has heard arguments regarding the extradition of Peter 'Peadar' Keating to the UK, where he faces charges including perverting the course of justice and conspiracy to possess firearms. Keating, a senior Kinahan cartel member, was jailed for 11 years in Ireland in September 2021 after pleading guilty to directing a criminal…
2022-11-07
Imre Arakas, 63, a former Estonian Defence League member, is to be extradited to Lithuania to face a murder charge for the 2015 shooting of Deimantas Bugavicius, the lover of Lithuanian pop star Vita Jakutiene. The High Court ruled that the Lithuanian warrant was clear and that the alleged offences – murder, possession of firearms and criminal…
2022-10-10
Imre Arakas, a 64-year-old Estonian national, appeared before the High Court to challenge his extradition to Lithuania, where he is alleged to have acted as a mercenary in the 2015 murder of Deimantas Bugavicius. Lithuanian authorities allege Arakas supplied two nine-millimetre handguns, clothing, and chemical cleaning substances to a three-man…
2022-07-18 · Dundalk, Louth
The High Court has adjourned the extradition appeal of Imre Arakas to Monday next to fix a hearing date, during which he is to appear by video-link. Mr Justice Paul Burns directed the State to prepare a Section 20 request under the Extradition Act to clarify Lithuanian authorities' allegations regarding Arakas's specific role in the 2015 murder…
2022-03-14 · Dublin
Martin Aylmer, 35, of Casino Park, Marino, Dublin 3, pleaded guilty to taking part in a Kinahan cartel plot to murder James 'Mago' Gately, an associate of the Hutch gang, while Gately was in Northern Ireland from 7 September 2016 to 6 April 2017. The offence is charged under Section 72(1)(A) of the Criminal Justice Act 2006. Aylmer admitted that…
2022-02-14 · Dublin City, Dublin
Douglas Glynn, 37, of Dublin 1, was sentenced by the Special Criminal Court to seven years and six months imprisonment for participating in the activities of a criminal organisation. The final year of the sentence is suspended, and the term is backdated to December 31, 2021, when he entered custody. Glynn pleaded guilty to charges relating to the…
2022-01-14 · Dublin
Douglas Glynn (37) of Fitzgibbon Court, Dublin 1, was re-arraigned on November 17 and pleaded guilty to participating in activities of a criminal organisation, contrary to Section 72 (1) (A) of the Criminal Justice Act. The charge relates to his involvement between December 7, 2016, and April 6, 2017, in activities connected with the targeting of…
2021-11-17 · Dublin
Douglas Glynn (37) of Fitzgibbon Court, Dublin 1, changed his plea to guilty at the Special Criminal Court, admitting to participating in the activities of a criminal organisation between December 7, 2016, and April 6, 2017. The charge alleged he placed a tracker device on James Gately's car in Belfast to facilitate a murder plot. Glynn had…
2021-11-11 · Dublin
The Special Criminal Court has adjourned the trial of Douglas Glynn (37) until Tuesday for the production of additional photographs, following a disclosure issue. Glynn, of Dublin 1, pleaded not guilty to placing a tracker device on James "Mago" Gately's car in Belfast in April 2017. The prosecution alleges this was part of an ongoing plan by a…
2021-11-09 · Dublin
The trial of Douglas Glynn (37) opened at the Special Criminal Court, where he pleaded not guilty to assisting in a plot to murder James Gately by placing a tracker device on his car. Prosecutors allege Glynn participated in directing the activities of a criminal organisation between December 7, 2016, and April 6, 2017, to target Gately. The…
2021-09-16 · Dublin
Stephen Fowler (62) pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to participating in a criminal organisation with the intention of enhancing its ability to commit the serious offence of the murder of James Gately. The court heard that Fowler offered his home as a safe-house to Estonian hitman Imre Arakas, who was jailed for six years in December…
2021-09-02 · Dublin
Senior Kinahan cartel member Peter Keating has been jailed for 12 years by the Special Criminal Court for directing the activities of a criminal organisation between December 7, 2016 and April 6, 2017, within and outside the State. Keating (40) pleaded guilty in July of this year to directing the activities of the crime group in their failed…
2021-07-30 · Dundalk, Louth
The High Court adjourned the extradition challenge of Imre Arakas until September 23, pending the outcome of Liam Campbell's Supreme Court appeal. Arakas, 63, is jailed in Ireland for conspiracy to murder James 'Mago' Gately and faces Lithuanian allegations of murder, firearms, and conspiracy charges related to the 2015 shooting of Deimantas…
2021-07-26 · Dublin
Peter Keating, 40, of Clondalkin, pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to directing the activities of the Kinahan crime cartel in their failed attempt to murder Hutch gang member James 'Mago' Gately. Detective Sergeant David Carolan stated that Keating was involved in locating Gately's Belfast home and tracking his movements using devices…
2021-06-21 · Dublin
The Special Criminal Court adjourned the sentencing of David 'Blinky' Duffy until July 30. Duffy, 34, pleaded guilty in April to knowing of a criminal organisation and contributing to activities connected with the murder of James 'Mago' Gately between December 2016 and April 2017. Detective Garda Tony Kennedy testified that the plot was a…
2021-02-01 · Dublin
Imre Arakas, 62, an Estonian hitman jailed by the Special Criminal Court for six years in December 2018, is set to file a bid to halt his surrender to Lithuania on March 23. He was convicted for conspiring to murder James Gately in Northern Ireland on 3–4 April 2017, a plot carried out by the Kinahan cartel. Lithuanian authorities seek his…
2020-07-20 · Dublin
Imre Arakas, 62, jailed by the Special Criminal Court for six years in December 2018 after admitting to conspiring with others to murder James Gately in Northern Ireland in April 2017, is currently serving his sentence in a segregated block in Portlaoise Prison. He faces an extradition request from Lithuania, where he is wanted for the murder of…
2020-06-15 · Dublin
Imre Arakas, 62, was jailed by the Special Criminal Court for six years in December 2018 after admitting to conspiring with the Kinahan cartel to murder James Gately in Northern Ireland on 3–4 April 2017. He is serving his sentence in a segregated block at Portlaoise Prison. Lithuanian authorities suspect Arakas, a former ex‑wrestler and…
2020-05-18 · Dublin
Imre Arakas, 62, a former Estonian separatist, is jailed in Portlaoise Prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to murder James Gately in Northern Ireland in April 2017. He received a six‑year sentence from the Special Criminal Court in December 2018. Lithuanian authorities suspect Arakas was part of a three‑man gang that planned the murder of…
2018-12-12 · Dublin City, Dublin
An Estonian hitman, Imre Arakas, aged 60, was convicted by the Special Criminal Court for conspiring to murder James Gately in Northern Ireland between 3 and 4 April last year. The court found that Arakas had agreed to pull the trigger and had supplied details on how the murder would be carried out, including the use of a silencer. He had been…
2018-11-12
An Estonian man, Imre Arakas, 59, pleaded guilty in the Special Criminal Court to conspiring to murder James Gately in Northern Ireland between 3 and 4 April last year. The court, presided over by Mr Justice Tony Hunt with Judges Sinéad Ní Chúlacháin and Cormac Dunne, accepted his plea and vacated a previously scheduled trial date. Arakas was…
2018-02-05
An Estonian man, Imre Arakas, aged 58, will stand trial at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin next year. He is charged with conspiring to murder James Gately in Northern Ireland between 3 and 4 April last year, an offence under Section 71 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006. Prosecutor Paul Greene SC told the court the trial is expected to last…
2017-10-10 · Dublin
An Estonian man, Imre Arakas, aged 58, was charged in April at Dublin District Court with conspiring to murder James Gately in Northern Ireland between 3 and 4 April. The offence falls under Section 71 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006. At a brief hearing today, State solicitor Michael O'Donovan requested that Arakas be charged and tried before…