THIS is the first image of the Romanian crime boss whose mob laundered €7m through Irish bank accounts. But Liviu Cose’s position as one of Europe’s most prolific fraudsters is now over after he received a seven-year sentence, with the last suspended, at Dublin Circuit Court last week. 5 Romanian crime boss Liviu CoseCredit: Journalist … Read more
GIGGLING as she tosses back her long blonde ponytail, the petite French teenager is a far cry from a stereotypical drug dealer. But this slender young girl, nicknamed Ghost, is fighting to survive in the dangerous slum neighbourhoods of Marseille, France. 11 A specialist drugs unit surveys the Marseille skylineCredit: Getty 11 Marseilles is notorious … Read more
THE Kinahans were small-time Irish street dealers who became billionaires. But a series of bloody shootings on Spain’s Costa del Crime, where they enjoyed Sopranos-style lives of gangster luxury, nearly brought their whole empire crashing down. 13 Daniel Kinahan, Christopher Kinahan Senior and Christopher Kinahan run one of the world’s most infamous cartelsCredit: BBC 13 Kinahan … Read more
WITH car bomb explosions, gory stabbings and a kidnap plot that sees a man kill himself in exchange for his girlfriend’s safe release, This City Is Ours has chilled viewers to the core. But behind the BBC drama are chilling real-life stories from the drug scene in Liverpool, which was once dubbed “smack city” due … Read more
A TOP ex-cop has sounded the alarm on Ireland’s most dangerous crime gangs — revealing only international firepower can possibly take down the thugs. Retired Detective Inspector Noel Browne, who spent years on the front lines in Colombia, insists global co-operation is the only way to crush the country’s biggest drug cartels. 4 Gardai have … Read more
THE head of the Spanish drugs squad that took down John Gilligan claims the notorious gang boss “likes what he does”. The Dublin gangster’s Spanish gaff was raided in December as he slept, with cops uncovering a massive drugs lab. 4 John Gilligan’s Spanish villa was raided in DecemberCredit: Solarpix 4 He agreed a plea … Read more
FIGHTING back tears in court, mother Sharon Kendall’s blood began to boil as she listened to chilling drill music lyrics that detailed the harrowing way her son was stabbed to death. Most disturbingly of all, the words, penned by Joel Amade, were written nearly a year before he took the life of teenage Jason Isaacs … Read more
A PHILADELPHIA drug trafficker who shared a prison cell with one of America’s most notorious criminals has revealed what really went on behind bars. For two years in the mid-1980s, George Martorano and the Gambino family mob boss lived side by side at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York while Gotti faced his first … Read more