The Civil Guard has arrested in the province of Malaga the leader of a bloody Irish criminal group wanted by his country, who was on the run in Lanzarote. It was the Fugitives from Justice Team of the Central Operative Unit of the Civil Guard who initiated the first steps for his location, managing to find out that he was on the island of Lanzarote. However, two days before the UCO agents came, Hutch took a flight to Malaga with a return ticket to Lanzarote, which he did not use, according to EFE.
The detainee, with initials G.H. and a native of Dublin, is known in the criminal field as The Monk and is 58 years old. The investigations for the location and arrest of this person began when the Civil Guard became aware, through the Garda Siochana (Irish Police), that the Irish Judicial Authorities had accused him of murder in that country, activating a European Arrest and Surrender Order (EAW).
According to the Civil Guard, "The Monk" also had a network on the Costa del Sol, where he was finally arrested. The agents located him in a house in the center of the town of Fuengirola, and after a follow-up, they proceeded to his arrest in a restaurant, carrying false documentation at that time.
Subsequently, the Irish authorities issued an International Rogatory Commission requesting the practice of an entry and search in the house he inhabited in said locality, carrying it out on Friday the 13th.
Gang war
According to the Irish police, the detainee was part of the family clan known as Kinahan, dedicated to the criminal world, both in Ireland and on the Spanish Costa del Sol. After an internal dispute, a split occurred and another criminal group emerged led by the now detained, establishing a "fierce war between clans that has resulted in about 20 deaths on both sides between Ireland and Spain."
"The clashes increased when his nephew was murdered in 2015 in the town of Mijas (Málaga) and G.H. blamed the Kinahan clan," adds the Civil Guard.
The Irish authorities consider the detainee responsible for the events that occurred at the Regency Hotel in Dublin (Ireland) in 2016, where men from his organization, disguised as policemen, murdered a member of the rival clan using weapons of war during the weigh-in for a boxing match, "in a clear act of revenge."
