- Panorama to air evidence of Daniel Kinahan’s involvement
- Barry McGuigan says: ‘There is an intimidation effect’
The murky world of professional boxing is under fresh scrutiny as a BBC Panorama investigation claims to have found clear evidence that “a suspected organised crime boss is still working at the top of world boxing”. Daniel Kinahan’s involvement at the highest level of the fight game in Britain, Ireland and the US has long been regarded as an open secret within the sport but the BBC programme marks a significant shift in coverage of the story.
Until now the investigative work into Kinahan’s involvement in boxing has been confined mainly to news outlets in Ireland. Kinahan has been named in the Irish courts as the head of the Kinahan Organised Crime Group – which the BBC describe as “one of Europe’s most brutal drug cartels”. The Irish courts, the BBC report, “have accepted that the Kinahan Organised Crime Group is involved in drug trafficking, money laundering and gangland executions”.
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