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Christy Kinahan's pal used crime cash to pay for daughters' Swiss boarding school
He also enjoyed high-end shopping buying a €6,600 Rolex Oyster Datajust watch in Valleta, Malta and a Louis Vuitton Bag in Barcelona.
Christy Kinahan Snr is said to have mentored 'Sam' O'Sullivan, who is being targeted by CAB
Kinahan 'posh-boy' protege Ciaran 'Sam' O'Sullivan used criminal cash to send his daughters to a Swiss finishing school for girls.
The well-spoken drug dealer from South County had used an aunt's bank account to pay the fees to the Surval school at Montreux in Switzerland.
He also enjoyed high-end shopping buying a €6,600 Rolex Oyster Datajust watch in Valleta, Malta and a Louis Vuitton Bag in Barcelona.
The account statements for the school were found in a Louis Vuitton brief-case at a house in Glenageary he used as his address.
In a High Court case taken against him by the Criminal Assets Bureau evidence was also heard he sold encrypted phones using Encrochat and SkyEEC to gangsters.
O'Sullivan had also been associated with a major Chinese money-laundering operation in operation when his addresses in Ireland were searched in June 2020.
Judge Alexander Owens today found that 34 iPhones, 18 Google Pixel smart phones, the watch and a one-ounce gold coin were all the proceeds of crime.
The phones had been bought on the 'grey market' it was heard and were consistent with being 'put into play' for criminals to communicate securely.
Also included was €3,060 cash that was seized during the search of the house in Glenageary and his girlfriend's house in Tulfarris, Co Wicklow.
Christy Kinahan Snr is said to have mentored 'Sam' O'Sullivan, who is being targeted by CAB
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Judge Owens declined to make an order that €16,300 in O'Sullivan's aunt's bank account was the proceeds of crime saying the cash was gone and it would be unfair to take the money from her.
Earlier this year he had indicated that he would contest the case, but no defence was entered by him and the case went to hearing today.
On Tuesday evening this week O'Sullivan had sent an email to a CAB officer in which he said the case against him was all 'hearsay and character assassination', but that maybe it was time to stop wasting taxpayers' money.
It was heard he was intimately connected to the Kinahan gang and to the Chinese money laundering operation.
A series of raids were carried out in Dublin and Wicklow in June 2020 shortly after Dutch and French police hacked the encrypted Encrochat service used by criminal gangs.
Gardai seized over €800,000 in series of searches in an operation against his Chinese crime partners.
In a previous case, evidence given to the High Court against members of the Chinese gang in which O'Sullivan was described as having displayed 'a vast amount of wealth' obtained from drugs.
'Ciaran O'Sullivan is renowned by multiple law enforcement agencies as a transnational drug trafficker with OCG connections in Ireland, United Kingdom, Spain and Holland,' state a senior officer.
It was also heard he got a four-year prison sentence after being caught in Spain in 2003 in Spain over the seizure of 1,200 kilos of cannabis.
Also arrested in that case were now US-sanctioned Kinahan Cartel lieutenant Bernard Clancy and gangster Chris Casserly, it was heard today.
He got a month in prison in Holland after his arrest over the seizure of 97 kilos of amphetamines, a firearm and €35,000 in cash in 2007.
O'Sullivan has also been arrested in the UK over money laundering but not prosecuted it was added in evidence.
The Sunday World previously revealed how Sam O'Sullivan had supplied Encrochat phones to the Kinahan mob in Ireland.
Earlier this year it emerged police believe he had also been selling the encrypted phones to criminal gangs in France.
The Chinese gang used an Asian restaurant in Crumlin, which has since closed, as a drop-off point where Irish criminals using their service could leave their cash.
A dozen people were part of the operation which involved collecting and moving cash, buying designer goods and transferring money through bank accounts.
The crime gang charged Irish criminals a fee to launder their cash through their international network.
Their criminal Irish clients handing over cash to the gang here could collect it in another country without the money ever having to leave Ireland and risk being seized by customs.
