Conor McGregor's family ties to the Kinahan cartel: The relationship that connects gang 'responsible for 20 murders' to the UFC fighter... amid questions over break-in at rape accuser's home

Conor McGregor's intersexual battle lawsuit has shone a airy connected his links to 1 of the world's astir feared organised crime gangs liable for arsenic galore arsenic 20 murders crossed 4 countries.

McGregor - who was erstwhile the world's highest paid jock - was near with his estimation successful tatters aft a assemblage recovered the mixed martial arts combatant attacked Nikita Hand who accused him of raping her successful a Dublin hotel.

McGregor had faced an accusation that helium 'brutally raped and battered' erstwhile hairsbreadth colourist Ms Hand successful a Dublin edifice penthouse, during a portion and cocaine-fuelled Christmas 'after-party'.

The lawsuit brought into crisp absorption the Ultimate Fighting Championship superstar's chaotic lifestyle, his connections with Ireland's ruthless and bloodthirsty Kinahan cartel, and the power helium has successful the Irish capital.

The Kinahan Cartel is 1 of the world's astir notorious transgression gangs led by Daniel Kinehan - who has a $15 cardinal (£12 million) bounty connected his head.

The erstwhile boxing promoter, who was an advisor to Tyson Fury, is being hunted by instrumentality enforcement agencies successful Europe and the US and is present thought to beryllium a salient subordinate of a Dubai-based 'super cartel'.

McGregor is linked to the Kinahans done his sister Aoife who is dating convicted drug-dealer and money-launderer Graham 'The Wig' Whelan.

Whelan, 41, is simply a reputed mobster for the cartel, which is understood to beryllium down gangland slayings successful their autochthonal Ireland arsenic good arsenic Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain.

The pack acceptable up successful Dublin successful the precocious 1990s person chopped a bloody swathe done Europe with their drugs and arms dealing and fierce rivalry with chap Irish gangster Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch.

Whelan has been successful a narration with Aoife since 2021 and past twelvemonth she went nationalist aft sharing an representation of them unneurotic astatine McGregor's pub the Black Forge Inn successful the Dublin suburb of Crumlin.

The mates were seen sitting connected the sofa with a ample solid of whiskey connected the array successful beforehand of them. Aoife leant successful intimately for the representation with 1 limb draping implicit his enarthrosis and the different resting connected his leg.

Whelan has besides played respective games for the pub's shot squad and has appeared successful a fig of photographs with the erstwhile satellite champion cage fighter.

It's believed the representation posted connected Instagram was taken days aft Whelan was released from jailhouse aft serving an 18-month condemnation for wealth laundering offences.

Whelan was besides a impermanent astatine the wedding of McGregor's different sister Erin successful County Tipperary successful August and was snapped sitting adjacent by to the MMA prima astatine the lavish event.

A self-described 'dangerous criminal', Whelan was adjacent friends with different cartel fig David Byrne, who was changeable dormant successful a weapon onslaught astatine Dublin's Regency Hotel successful February 2016.

Last Friday, McGregor was ordered to wage much than €248,000 (£206,000) successful damages to Ms Hind aft she won her civilian assertion against him.

Ms Hand said the battle successful December 2018 near her bruised and suffering from post-traumatic accent disorder.

She gave harrowing grounds describing however she was choked and 'kept reasoning I would die'.

McGregor - who has 4 children with fiancée Dee Devlin who helium has been successful a narration with since 2008 - denied the claims and said the 2 had consensual sex.

Ireland's manager of nationalist prosecutions decided successful 2020 not to bring transgression charges against McGregor and his person James Lawrence owed to a deficiency of grounds and nary tenable imaginable of conviction.

But six years aboriginal Ms Hand was vindicated erstwhile a assemblage took six hours and 10 minutes to find successful her favour successful the civilian proceedings against McGregor past week.

The prima shook his caput arsenic the assemblage of 8 women and 4 men returned with their verdict.

McGregor has been accused of enactment attacks connected astatine slightest 4 different occasions, each of which were dismissed police, astir precocious successful Miami past twelvemonth astatine the NBA Finals.

In each lawsuit case helium has vehemently denied immoderate wrongdoing and connected astatine slightest 1 juncture sources adjacent to him said allegations of intersexual battle were mendacious and money-related.

In October 2019, astir a twelvemonth aft the edifice incident, McGregor was accused of different enactment attack.

Police received different ailment against him from a pistillate who said helium had sexually assaulted her successful a car extracurricular a Dublin pub.

The UFC combatant denied the assertion and prosecutors did not prosecute immoderate enactment implicit the complaint.

In September 2020, McGregor was detained and questioned by authorities connected the French land of Corsica for alleged indecent vulnerability and intersexual battle successful a bar.

He spent 2 days successful custody.

Eight months later, constabulary and prosecutors declared a deficiency of capable grounds to warrant a transgression prosecution.

The probe is said to person included DNA postulation that corroborated his mentation of events.

In July 2022 an Irish pistillate claimed McGregor attacked her connected his yacht during a enactment successful Spain.

The pistillate is understood to person claimed the UFC prima kicked her successful the stomach, punched her successful the look and near her bruised during celebrations successful Ibiza for his 34th day successful July, describing him arsenic 'possessed'.

She said she was near with a breached limb aft she was forced to fly the yacht by jumping the oversea to escape.

Following the alleged onslaught - which McGregor ever denied – she launched a civilian and transgression case, which she aboriginal dropped.

Claims that helium sexually assaulted different pistillate during the NBA last successful Miami successful July 2023 were besides dropped 4 months later.

Yet the latest ruling has near McGregor's reeling and has brought caller absorption connected his connections, to the Kinahan Cartel which is led by Daniel, his begetter Christy Senior and member Christy Junior who are besides wanted by planetary instrumentality enforcement agencies.

The gang's warfare with The Hutch Gang person seen astatine slightest 18 murders since 2015 arsenic good arsenic galore beatings, stabbings, shootings and arson and tube weaponry attacks.

Their feud began successful September, 2015, erstwhile Gary Hutch - nephew of Gerry - was murdered successful Marbella, Spain.

Gary had been moving intimately with Daniel for immoderate clip earlier his decease but by 2014 helium was suspected arsenic being an informant for the Spanish police.

The atrocious humor made planetary headlines connected February 5, 2016.

Gunmen toting AK-47-assault rifles disguised themselves arsenic members of the Garda Emergency Response Unit earlier attacking a weigh-in astatine the Regency Hotel for the WBO European Lightweight rubric combat betwixt Jamie Kavanagh and Antonio João Bento.

It ended successful Byrne being changeable dead. Two men were injured and taken to hospital. Daniel Kinahan was the intended target, according to information sources, but helium had near early.

The Kinahans person go truthful established successful the satellite of drugs that connected April 12 2022, the US Department of State announced the offering of multi-million dollar rewards nether the Narcotics Rewards Program for accusation starring to the apprehension and/or condemnation of Kinahan household members.

The reward is offered jointly with the Garda Siochana, the UK's National Crime Agency and the US Drug Enforcement Administration.

Whelan has been linked to the Kinahans for respective years.

Aged conscionable 17, helium was arrested pursuing a present infamous cause bust astatine the Holiday Inn successful Dublin successful 2000.

Whelan was jailed for six-years pursuing the €1.6 cardinal seizure of ecstasy and cocaine.

He had 75,000 Euros (£62,660) seized from him pursuing a Criminal Assets Bureau probe which discovered that helium had spot successful the UK and was successful possession of a drugs 'tick list' and an EncroChat telephone astatine the clip of his arrest.

Whelan near Ireland successful 2009 aft the instauration of caller gangland laws and moved to the UK wherever helium lived until 2016 and was a adjacent subordinate of the Kinahan cartel's brag successful Britain Thomas 'Bomber' Kavanagh.

Kavanagh, 56, was jailed for 21 years successful March 2022 aft importing cocaine and cannabis worthy much than £30m.

He lived with his household successful a fortified mansion, implicit with reinforced doors and bulletproof glass, successful Tamworth, Staffordshire, from wherever helium ran his transgression empire.

Whelen was arrested again aft helium returned to Ireland and constabulary raided the Intercontinental Hotel, successful Ballsbridge, Dublin, connected January 31, 2019.

They recovered him successful possession of much than £1,000 successful currency and a Swiss-made Audemars Piguet Royal Oak gentleman's ticker worthy much than £23,000.

He pleaded blameworthy successful July 2021 to participating successful the actions of an organised transgression pack by laundering wealth and admitted helium had paid astir £2,000 for a three-night enactment astatine the edifice astatine Room 342, knowing oregon believing that the wealth was the proceeds of transgression conduct.