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CAB to serve papers on Daniel Kinahan by registered post

Summary

The High Court has permitted the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) to serve papers on Daniel Kinahan by registered post. Acting for the CAB, Shelley Horan BL informed Mr Justice Michael MacGrath that the US Treasury Department's April press release identified residential and business addresses for Kinahan in Dubai. Due to security concerns at gated communities, personal service was deemed difficult. Kinahan has 35 days to indicate if he intends to defend the proceedings, which aim to seize property in Dublin linked to him and Jim Mansfield Jnr. It is alleged that Kinahan and Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh gave Mansfield €4.5 million for property investment, a deal that collapsed before Mansfield allegedly agreed to repay the cartel with a house at Coldwater Lakes, Saggart. The CAB claims Kinahan has effectively owned the property since 2014. Mansfield and his brother, Patrick Joseph Mansfield, have consented to an order waiving any claim over the property. Kavanagh was previously served in a UK prison. In an unrelated matter, the Special Criminal Court jailed Mansfield Jnr for 18 months last February after he was found to have ordered the destruction of CCTV footage showing him with former employee Martin Byrne on the morning Byrne was kidnapped by Dessie O'Hare and Declan 'Whacker' Duffy. The court described Mansfield Jnr's actions as "foolish and selfish criminality" intended to hide his association with the kidnappers.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: CAB to serve papers on Daniel Kinahan by registered post. Charges or matters: seizure of property; destruction of CCTV footage. Procedural stage: sentence

When:

• 2022-06-16 Publication

Why: Ms Horan added that Detective Garda Declan Fitzgerald had received information that it is likely to prove "extremely difficult" to serve the papers personally because residences in Dubai tend to be gated communities with manned security desks. CNI source report

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