Jailed Kinahan thug must pay €700k or face longer stretch
Irish Daily Mirror|May 24, 2023
Maher has to hand over cars, watches, house and artwork
MICHAEL O'TOOLE
Jailed Kinahan thug must pay €700k or face longer stretch

A TRUCKER who was locked up for smuggling Kinahan cartel drugs into Ireland has been told to stump up more than €700,000 - or face extra jail time.

Offaly-born Thomas Maher is already serving a 14-year term after he admitted drugs and money laundering offences and now an English judge has hit him with a so-called confiscation order which is a proceeds of crime fine.

He has to agree to pay £630,000 - €720,000 and if he refuses, he will be given six more years in prison.

The order, handed down by a judge at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday, means Maher, 42, has to hand over his house in northern England, cars, lorries, jewellery, a number of high-value watches, artwork and gold ingots bought in Dubai.

The judge gave Maher three months to pay or the extra sentence will kick in.

Cops know Maher smuggled at least €4.5 million of cocaine into Ireland in 2020, but suspect he brought in multiples of that amount previously including for the mob-controlled by Daniel Kinahan, 45.

Maher is suspected of helping several gangs get their drugs into Ireland - but his scam came to an end when French and Dutch cops smashed the Encrochat mobile phone system that he and hundreds of other criminals around Europe thought was safe.

この記事は Irish Daily Mirror の May 24, 2023 版に掲載されています。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。

この記事は Irish Daily Mirror の May 24, 2023 版に掲載されています。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。