On 23 April, the ICIJ published a report after leaked documents tie the Kinahan organised crime cartel to companies and enablers in the Middle East’s top secrecy haven. It says that, at the core of the cartel’s operations, according to an investigation funded by the EU, are dozens of front companies that help move heroin, cocaine and other drugs, and launder the proceeds from their sale – setting up food businesses to move drugs and launder dirty money and using real estate investments to hold illicit goods. Leaked records reveal that Kinahan set up several companies that share some of these characteristics in the UAE.
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