Daniel Kinahan’s wife Caoimhe Robinson has been living a life of luxury in Dubai but he has now been extradited to Ireland
Daniel Kinahan’s wife had been enjoying an extravagant life in Dubai, but now finds herself in a precarious position following her husband’s extradition to Ireland on accusations of heading an international drugs operation.
Caoimhe Robinson, a mum of five, had been living a glamorous, sun-drenched life at the family’s seven-bedroom residence on the city’s Palm Jumeirah resort. Her property portfolio also includes six luxurious homes, among them a villa in the highly exclusive Emirates Hills neighbourhood, where Petra Ecclestone lives nearby.
For years, she and her alleged cartel boss husband were considered the power couple at the heart of Dubai’s elite social circle. However, sources suggest the “bubble” she and other Kinahan associates’ partners have lived in has now burst following the bombshell extradition.
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Caoimhe had been living her sun-soaked, glamorous Dubai life. Her husband stands accused of funding his lifestyle via criminal cash from a cartel accused of controlling roughly a third of Europe’s cocaine trade.
Kinahan fled to Dubai in 2016 following an assassination attempt at the Regency Hotel in Dublin. There, he and Caoimhe lived a golden lifestyle that featured £220 tasting menus and £500 Beluga caviar, reports the Daily Star.
Their glittering wedding at the seven-star Burj Al Arab hotel in 2017 was attended by alleged criminals and even heavyweight boxing champ Tyson Fury.
The hotel’s eye-wateringly expensive Michelin-starred restaurant reportedly became a favourite haunt of Caoimhe and Kinahan and they were the ultimate power couple of the Dubai social scene.
Leaked records reported by the Consortium of Investigative Journalists (CIJ) show she has been buying and selling property in Dubai since 2017, including a villa bought for about €2.1m.
In addition, she was listed as the joint owner, with her husband, of four Dubai properties in 2022. But Caoimhe, from Darndale in north Dublin, no longer has a home in Ireland and didn’t return for her mum’s funeral in 2020.
Her crime links started long before joining the Kinahan clan as her previous gangster husband Mika ‘The Panda’ Kelly was gunned down in September 2011 by the Real IRA. Following Kelly’s murder, she is reported to have met Kinahan during a trip to Spain in 2014.
And it is the Criminal Assets Bureau which could ultimately bring down her lavish lifestyle. Kinahan’s extradition follows the arrested and prosecution of Sean McGovern, the first cartel member to be extradited from Dubai to Dublin last year.
Said to have been Kinahan’s right-hand man, he was convicted and is now serving 24 years in prison. His long-term partner Anita Freeman has ditched her luxury lifestyle in Dubai to return to Ireland. In 2016, the ex-council house they shared in Dublin was seized.
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