The kingpin of the notorious Kinahan drugs cartel has been dropping hundreds of Google reviews, rating and slating establishments across the world despite having a $5million bounty over his head.
‘Gourmet gangster’ Christy Kinahan is one of the world’s most wanted men who, along with the help of his sons Daniel and Christopher Jr, is thought to be working with groups of army gunmen and money launderers.
The crooked family have worked alongside cocaine gangs in South America, jihadists in Asia and even intelligence service in Russia and Iran.
Their links to international organised crime and involvement with terrorist organisations put them under the radar of the US State Department who placed a $5million bounty over the heads of the trio.
Yet seemingly unbothered by the international manhunt, Kinahan – dubbed Dapper Don – who is believed to be hiding out in Dubai – has been posting hundreds of reviews and pictures online between 2019 and 2023.
Christy Kinahan, pictured, known as ‘The Dapper Don’, has been posting countless Google reviews as he continue to evade police
Kinahan is seen here dining with his son Christopher Jnr at Cycle Bistro in Dubai – one of the restaurant’s he has reviewed
Kinahan seen being arrested in 2010 in Spain after being charged with passport fraud
Using the alias Christopher Vincent, the master criminal has rated everything from luxury hotels and restaurants to Covid-19 test centres and government offices. He even reviewed 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 Times and Bellingcat.
The 200 reviews – which include 1,100 photographs and four videos – began in April 2019, three years before the gangster, from Dublin, gained international notoriety when the US imposed its sanctions and banned him from the country.
The posts reportedly record a mixture of alleged business meetings and family outings, tracing his movements across the world.
Reviews have been made from South Africa, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Turkey, Belgium, the Netherlands, Hungary, Egypt, Spain and Portugal.
In some cases he posted rave reviews, vowing to return to the establishments.
According to the paper, he left a five-star reviews of the Steigenberger Alcazar hotel in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, where he visited in late 2019 to attend a three-day Global Humanitarian aviation Conference hosted by the UN.
The drug lord wrote: ‘The service and food were good as were the conference facilities.
Kinahan reviewed the food at PF Chang’s in Dubai as ‘very good’ he said the service was ‘a little tardy’
Kinahan blasted Tim Hortons Coffee Shop in Dubai for the cookies he ordered being ‘soggy’
A Covid-19 testing centre – Lancet Laboratories in Johannesburg – which he gave a one star rating because of the ‘contempt’ he claimed management held ‘us sheep in’
‘I stayed for 3 days and whilst I didn’t use any of the pools I did notice that there were families enjoying all facilities and evening entertainment. I thought service was helpful and good as was the value for money.’
In another, he praised the luxury Aurea Ana Palace Hotel in Budapest, writing that he would recommend the resort ‘without hesitation’ while he said he would ‘definitely return’ to the Cycle Bistro on the Jumeriah coast of Dubai.
And he did make the return: a photo uploaded to the restaurant’s Instagram page showed Kinahan with his son Christopher Jnr tucking into a meal. It marked the first photo of the gangsters to emerge in years.
Not all of his reviews, however, were glowing and he tore apart some establishments with his scathing words.
Amongst those was a Covid-19 testing centre – Lancet Laboratories in Johannesburg – which he gave a one star rating because of the ‘contempt’ he claimed management held ‘us sheep in’.
He blasted Tim Hortons Coffee Shop in Dubai for the cookies he ordered being ‘soggy’. The gangster, however, added that while he would not be returning 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 tardy’.
The Kinahan Organised Crime gang is an organised criminal group based in based in Ballyfermot and Clondalkin in West Dublin.
Kinahan is thought to have moved to Dubai in 2016 after his organisation attempted to murder the eldest son of their rival Hutch gang at the Regency Hotel that year.
The move allowed Kinahan to avoid law enforcement and possible arrest over the feud, with the Emirates providing more discreet baning services.
The Irish government have publicly lobbied for the return of the Kinahans, with the justice minister Helen McEntee and garda commissioner Drew Harris both travelling to Dubai in the last year for talks.
There is no extradition treaty between Ireland and the UEA.
The areas sit either side of the River Liffey and feature large housing estates developed in the 1970s and 1980s to move people living in tenements in Dublin’s north and south inner city.
The gardai investigating the gang now believe they are the chief beneficiaries of the bloody Kinahan-Hutch feud are making around £8m a month.
