Irish drug kingpin’s whereabouts revealed through Google reviews
The longtime head of an Irish drug and weapons cartel has been posting Google restaurant reviews and travel tidbits from luxury locations overseas while evading justice, according to recent reports. Under the alias “Christopher Vincent,” the posts, numbering in the hundreds, are from Christopher Kinahan Sr., according to the Sunday Times, a London-based newspaper, and the Dutch online investigative journalism site Bellingcat. According to Bellingcat, some of the cartel kingpin’s posts disclose the identity of people he has met with, while others reveal less significant details such as his status as a Platinum Ambassador in “an international hotel group’s reward program.” The 67-year-old Kinahan, ...
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