The kingpin of the notorious Kinahan drug cartel has been dropping hundreds of reviews, ratings and critiques of establishments on Google around the world despite having a $5 million bounty on his head.
‘Gourmet gangster’ Christy Kinahan is one of the most wanted men in the world and is believed, along with the help of his sons Daniel and Christopher Jr, to work with groups of army gunmen and money launderers.
The corrupt family has worked alongside cocaine gangs in South America, jihadists in Asia and even intelligence services in Russia and Iran.
Their ties to international organized crime and involvement with terrorist organizations put them under the radar of the US State Department, which placed a $5 million reward on the trio’s heads.
However, apparently unmoved by the international persecution, Kinahan, nicknamed Dapper Don, who is believed to be hiding in Dubai, has been posting hundreds of reviews and images online between 2019 and 2023.
Christy Kinahan, pictured, known as ‘The Dapper Don’, has been posting countless reviews on Google as he continues to evade the police.
Here Kinahan is seen dining with his son Christopher Jnr at Cycle Bistro in Dubai, one of the restaurants he has reviewed.
Kinahan was arrested in 2010 in Spain after being accused of passport fraud.
Using the alias Christopher Vincent, the master criminal has branded everything from luxury hotels and restaurants to Covid-19 testing centers and government offices. He even checked out a Waitrose.
Kinahan is a prolific reviewer on Google, with his profile earning more than 10,000 points and a ‘level 7’ guide rating, according to the sunday time and Bellingcat.
The 200 reviews – which include 1,100 photographs and four videos – began in April 2019, three years before the gangster, originally from Dublin, gained international notoriety when the United States imposed its sanctions and banned him from the country.
The posts reportedly record a mix of supposed business meetings and family outings, tracking their movements around the world.
Reviews have been conducted from South Africa, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Turkey, Belgium, Netherlands, Hungary, Egypt, Spain and Portugal.
In some cases he posted rave reviews and promised to return to the establishments.
According to the newspaper, he left five-star reviews for the Steigenberger Alcazar hotel in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, where he visited in late 2019 to attend a three-day World Humanitarian Aviation Conference hosted by the UN.
The drug dealer wrote: ‘The service and food were good, as were the conference facilities.
Kinahan called the food at PF Chang’s in Dubai “very good” and said the service was “a little late.”
Kinahan criticized the Tim Hortons cafe in Dubai because the cookies he ordered were “soggy”
A Covid-19 testing centre, Lancet Laboratories in Johannesburg, which he gave a one-star rating due to the “contempt” management said he had “for us sheep”.
‘I stayed for 3 days and although I didn’t use any of the pools, I noticed that there were families enjoying all the facilities and evening entertainment. I thought the service was helpful and good, as was the value for money.’
In another, he praised the luxurious Aurea Ana Palace hotel in Budapest and wrote that he would recommend the resort “without hesitation”, while he said he would “definitely return” to the Cycle Bistro on Dubai’s Jumeriah coast.
And he’s back: a photo posted to the restaurant’s Instagram page showed Kinahan with his son Christopher Jnr eating. She marked the first photo of the gangsters to emerge in years.
However, not all of his reviews were enthusiastic and he destroyed some establishments with his biting words.
Among them was a Covid-19 testing centre, Lancet Laboratories in Johannesburg, which he gave a one-star rating due to the “disdain” he claimed he had for “us sheep”.
He criticized the Tim Hortons cafe in Dubai because the cookies he ordered were “soggy.” The gangster, however, added that although he would not return, his business meeting was “productive.”
While the food at PF Chang’s in Dubai was, according to Kinahan, “very good,” he said the service was “a little late.”
The Kinahan organized crime gang is an organized crime group based in Ballyfermot and Clondalkin in west Dublin.
Kinahan is believed to have moved to Dubai in 2016 after his organization attempted to murder the eldest son of his rival Hutch gang at the Regency Hotel that year.
The move allowed Kinahan to avoid law enforcement and possible arrest over the dispute, and the Emirates provided more discreet prohibition services.
The Irish government has publicly pushed for the Kinahans’ return, and Justice Minister Helen McEntee and Garda Commissioner Drew Harris traveled to Dubai last year for talks.
There is no extradition treaty between Ireland and the EUA.
The areas straddle the River Liffey and feature large housing estates developed in the 1970s and 1980s to move people living in inner-city housing north and south of Dublin.
Gardai investigating the gang now believe they are the main beneficiaries of the bloody feud between Kinahan and Hutch, earning around £8 million a month.