Arrest warrant issued for Kinahan gangster who jumped bail after gun attack at restaurant in Spain

An arrest warrant has been issued for a Kinahan gangster who jumped bail in Spain after being detained over a broad daylight shooting.

The thug, aged in his 30s, was arrested last month along with another suspect after a gunman got off a motorcycle and fired about 15 shots through the windows of an upscale restaurant in Marbella at lunchtime on Sunday. March 11th.

Although staff and a small number of customers were inside, no one was injured. After painstaking monitoring of the motorcycle’s route by CCTV cameras, detectives from Spain’s elite Anti-Drug and Organized Crime unit located the driver’s home.

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On April 2, they raided four houses in Marbella and the former Kinahan stronghold of Estepona, arresting the Irishman and his alleged British accomplice and confiscating a revolver, a machete and more than €32,000 in cash.

Both men were remanded in custody following a hearing before an investigating magistrate, but subsequently appealed for bail to a higher court. This court released them on the condition that they surrender their passports, not leave Spanish territory and sign twice a month while the investigation continued.

However, the couple quickly disappeared and a judge issued an arrest warrant for them on Monday. It is understood that the order so far covers only Spain, as police have no evidence that the suspects have fled the country.

The Irishman has a long association with the Kinahan cartel, despite coming from the heart of the Hutch gang in Dublin’s north inner city. He is believed to have been involved in obtaining cars for Kinahan’s assassination attempts on Hutch figures during the bloody feud.

He is also a suspect in several arson attacks on cars belonging to innocent members of the Hutch family and was forced to flee Dublin in 2017 because his own life was in danger.

The release on bail of the suspects has caused a furor among the Spanish police, since the revolver had been discovered in the Irishman’s house and there were CCTV images linking it to the motorcycle, which had false license plates.

It also follows an international scandal over the Spanish release on bail of a top Dutch gangster despite an extradition order for his alleged role in a kidnapping plot of the Dutch royal family.

Billionaire Dutch drug trafficker Karim ‘Taxi’ Bouyakhrichan, leader of the Dutch Mocro Maffia, had been detained in Spain since his arrest in Marbella in January for alleged money laundering. After learning of his arrest, Dutch authorities issued a warrant for an organized crime plot to kidnap 18-year-old Princess Amalia in 2022.

The Amsterdam police took the threats so seriously that the princess moved to Madrid to study for a year, where she was considered safer. However, despite the extradition order against Bouyakhrichan, she was granted bail of 50,000 euros and she quickly disappeared.

The incident infuriated Dutch authorities and Spanish Justice Minister Félix Bolaños admitted it was “deeply worrying”.

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