"Daniel Kinahan is reportedly living quite the life in Dubai. In 2017, he got married at the Burj Al Arab, which is known, unofficially, as the world's only seven-star hotel. (A plate of beluga caviar there will set you back seven hundred dollars.) In 2022, he was renting a luxury apartment on Palm Jumeirah, a group of man-made islands in the shape of a palm tree, which has counted David and Victoria Beckham among its residents."
"The Kinahans are part of what police and journalists call the Super Cartel, an international alliance of drug smugglers. Members of the cartel come from around the world; collectively, they control as much as a third of Europe's cocaine trade. Many attended Daniel Kinahan's wedding. "When major criminals gather in the same room, cops tend to pay attention," Caesar writes, noting that one of the guests there to celebrate the happy couple also happened to be an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration."
Daniel Kinahan lives in Dubai and maintains an ostentatious lifestyle, including a 2017 wedding at the Burj Al Arab and a 2022 luxury apartment on Palm Jumeirah. Police consider him one of the world's foremost cocaine kingpins, overseeing a billion-dollar family empire. The Kinahan family operates from the U.A.E. and belongs to the Super Cartel, an international alliance of drug smugglers that may control up to a third of Europe's cocaine trade. Many cartel members attended Kinahan's wedding, and one guest was an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Kinahan has also been prominent in professional boxing as a manager and gym owner.
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