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Jailed Kinahan cartel member must await extradition fate over botched arms plot

Summary

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, stemming from a botched plot to amass an arsenal to help Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh reduce his sentence. Kavanagh, who pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and was jailed for 21 years in England in March 2022, is alleged to have directed the scheme. The UK warrant alleges Keating, using the handle 'short-texture', procured weapons from the Netherlands between January and June 2020. While Keating's counsel argued he was serving a sentence in Ireland and thus outside the UK's jurisdiction, the State's counsel rejected this, stating the warrant clearly indicates the conspiracy occurred while Keating was in the UK. The court will deliver its judgment on the surrender application by April 25. Separately, Imre Arakas was jailed for six years in December 2018 after admitting to conspiring to murder Gately in Northern Ireland in 2017.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: Jailed Kinahan cartel member must await extradition fate over botched arms plot. Procedural stage: sentence

When:

• March 2022 Other
• September 2021 Hearing Or Sentence
• December 7, 2016 Other
• April 6, 2017 Hearing Or Sentence
• November 2022 Hearing Or Sentence
• January 9, 2020 Incident
• June 3, 2020 Incident
• May 20, 2021 Other
• April 8, 2020 Other
• April 12, 2020 Other
• April 16, 2020 Other
• April 18, 2020 Other
• May 2020 Other
• May 22, 2020 Other
• May 27, 2020 Hearing Or Sentence
• June 1, 2020 Hearing Or Sentence
• April 25 Hearing Or Sentence
• January 2020 Other
• May 2021 Other
• July 1, 2020 Other
• December 2018 Hearing Or Sentence
• April 3 Hearing Or Sentence
• 2024-03-21 Publication

Why: Mr Munro said that intercepted text messages did not prove the location of his client, who was an Irish citizen who could not be said to have been an "ordinary resident" of the UK because he was in jail in Ireland. CNI source report

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Drugs Stage Sentence Violent Crime

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Read the original CNI report