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Daniel Kinahan: Irish crime boss extradited from Dubai to Dublin

Daniel Kinahan: Irish crime boss extradited from Dubai to Dublin

A man named Daniel Kinahan was brought from a faraway country called the United Arab Emirates back to Ireland on a plane.

Some police officers and governments think he is a very important leader of a group that does bad things, like selling drugs.

His group is called the Kinahan Organised Crime Group.

The police think this group has lots of money — more than one billion euros.

The police in America said he was one of the leaders and even offered five million dollars to anyone who could help catch him.

Mr. Kinahan had been living in a city called Dubai for about ten years.

In April, police in Dubai arrested him.

Now he is back in Ireland, where a judge will decide if he did something wrong.

He says he is not a crime boss, and nobody has proven he did anything bad yet.

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