Birth of a Cartel

Season 1Episode 159 minMar 31, 2025
Birth of a Cartel

Documentary following the Kinahans from a small-time street-dealing gang in 80s Dublin to its status today as one of the world's most feared crime organisations. It's a story of underworld feuding, double-dealing, betrayal and gangland assassinations, from the streets of Ireland and the UK to the Netherlands, Spain, Dubai and America.

Today, the United States has a $5 million bounty on the heads of senior cartel members, godfather Christopher 'Christy' Kinahan and his two sons Daniel and Christy Junior. The cartel is wanted for drugs and firearms trafficking, money laundering and murder. To date, Daniel and Christy Junior have never been convicted of any serious crimes, and all three Kinahans remain at large.

The Kinahan story starts almost half a century ago in inner-city Dublin, where Christy Kinahan Senior emerged as a heroin trafficker, before moving to the Netherlands in the 1990s. There, he built his crime gang into a cartel, shifting hundreds of millions of pounds worth of drugs. At the same time, his sons Daniel and Christy Junior were being primed by their father to join the family business.

With the help of exclusive interviews, new insight and detail, this series tells the astonishing tale of the Kinahan family and their incredible journey to the top table of international organised crime.

Birth of a Cartel has aired on Mar 31, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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