2018-12-12
Estonian hitman gets six years for cartel conspiracy
Stage: Sentence
Outcome: Credit: Collins) An Estonian hitman who was contracted by an international crime cartel and boasted to his associates in coded text messages that he would take out his target with "one shot to the head" has been jailed by the Special Criminal Court for six years. Sentencing the defendant today, Mr Justice Hunt sitting with Judge Sinéad Ní Chúlacháin and Judge Cormac Dunne, sentenced Arakas to six years imprisonment, backdated to April 4, 2017 when he went into custody.