Man named as member of Kinahan cartel appears in court

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A man named by the US Department of the Treasury as a key member of the Kinahan crime cartel has appeared in court in Spain in relation to money laundering

Detectives from six different police forces, including the Spanish Guardia Civil, gardaí and US DEA law enforcement agency, took part in the operation to arrest Johnny Morrissey in Costa del Sol.

The Irish passport holder, full name John Francis Morrissey, was one of seven people hit with sanctions in April and named by the US department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control. The other people named as part of a $5 million appeal for information were Christopher Kinahan Jnr, Daniel Kinahan's"advisor and closest confidant" Sean McGovern and Ian Dixon, who was arrested over the 2015 Costa del Sol murder of Gary Hutch but never charged.

 

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