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Mobster Daniel Kinahan pictured pointing to 'No Drugs' t-shirt in photo with boxer Sunny Edwards

Daniel Kinahan has been pictured pointing to a 'No Drugs' t-shirt as he posed for a photo with boxer Sunny Edwards.

The Irish mobster was photographed with the IBF world flyweight champion in Dubai, with the boxer sharing a photo of the pair on social media on Monday.

In the photo, Kinahan can be seen pointing to a t-shirt which reads 'No Drugs, No Champions', which Londoner Edwards is wearing.

Commenting on the snap, Edwards, who has no involvement in crime, said: "Always good to see an old friend."

It comes just days after Kinahan was pictured on a beach in Dubai with UFC fighter Darren Till.

The English MMA star tweeted a picture of himself and a smiling Kinahan on Friday, stating: “Good stroll on the beach tonight in Dubai with one of me good pals.”

The new photo of Daniel Kinahan in Dubai emerged in a week when a report from a global crime think tank named him as the last man standing in a super-cartel of arch criminals flooding Europe with billions of euro worth of cocaine.

The internationally renowned InSight Crime think tank says Kinahan was one of the leaders of the super cartel that smuggled 33 tonnes of cocaine worth a massive €6.9 billion on the streets into Holland in 2018 alone — but it has now been broken up by the US Drugs Enforcement Agency.

“At present, Kinahan is the last member of the consortium still at large,” InSight Crime says in an examination of the 44-year-old Dubliner’s role in organised crime. The other leaders of the cartel were allegedly Ridouan Taghi, Naoufal ‘Belly’ Fassih, and Raffaele Imperiale.

Dutch-Moroccan Taghi, 43, is currently locked up in the Netherlands awaiting trial on murder charges

He was booted out of Dubai in 2019 following his arrest for having a false passport.

Kinahan narrowly escaped being arrested himself as part of the operation when he went to a hotel in Dubai to meet lawyers acting for Taghi.

Fassih, 37, is also in jail in the Netherlands —after he was convicted of ordering one murder and another attempted assassination.

He was caught by gardai from Kevin Street Station in a Kinahan-connected apartment in Dublin’s plush Baggot Street in April 2016 — and held in Ireland before being extradited to Holland on an Air Corps plane amid tight security.

Mafia don Imperiale, 48, was arrested in Dubai earlier this year – after six years on the run from authorities in his native Italy.

He is in custody in Dubai and is expected to be sent back to Italy to serve eight years for drugs offences in the coming months.

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