What Tyson Fury has said about Daniel Kinahan as $5m reward offered for gangster's arrest
12.04.2022 - 19:21
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Irish businessman and reported gang boss Daniel Kinahan has been placed under sanctions after US officials announced a raft of measures against the Kinahan Organised Crime Group. Tyson Fury has been spotted in recent weeks with Kinahan in Dubai, which is part of a long-term relationship between Fury and Kinahan as the founder of the MTK Global management company, for whom Fury is its most high-profile client.
Kinahan is one of seven individuals who has been sanctioned by the US treasury, with officials saying that Kinahan he "is believed to run the day-to-day operations of the organisation". They also described the group as 'murderous' amid links to international drugs and firearms trafficking and money laundering.
The Irishman's father Christopher Snr and brother Christopher Jnr have also been sanctioned in the move which also freezes the assets of three businesses owned by the group. The sanctions also mean that anyone in or transiting in the United States will be banned from dealing with them as well as a ban on dealing in US Dollars, the main currency in boxing promotion - of which Kinahan holds an interest.
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The Treasury Department says that the group use Dubai as a 'hub' for its activities, which is where Fury was pictured with Kinahan in February. Fury has made no attempt to hide his relationship with the man described by named by the Irish High Court as the controller and manager of the gang.
In the past, he has praised Kinahan, describing him as a 'key adviser' despite him supposedly stepping away from promotion in 2017 and boxing altogether in 2020. In an infamous 2020 video Fury praised Kinahan's role in negotiating a fight with Anthony
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