Tyson Fury has been denied entry to the United States because of his claimed ties to criminal mastermind Daniel Kinahan, according to reports
The 33-year-old British fighter was in Liverpool today to see the IBF International Heavyweight Championships, which are now vacant.
It’s unclear when this occurred. Fury’s reps have been reached for comment by MailOnline.
Fury previously stated, “That’s none of my business and I don’t interfere with anybody else’s business,” when asked about reports that Irish boxing promoter Kinahan oversees a global organized criminal gang.
‘Because I had my picture taken with a man, it doesn’t make me a criminal,’ Fury, who was seen in Dubai in February this year with the now-US sanctioned Kinahan, added.
‘I’m just a boxer,’ he says. In this building, there could be a criminal.’
Kinahan’s father, Christy Kinahan, and brother, Christy Kinahan Jr., as well as several Kinahan family associates, have been named as senior figures in organized crime in Dublin’s High Court, and the US Treasury imposed sanctions on him, his father, Christy Kinahan, and brother, Christy Kinahan Jr., in April of this year.
The US Department of State has also announced a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the Kinahan family’s arrest and/or conviction.
Kinahan has advised Fury in the past, but he has never been charged with a crime.
The US issued a $5 million (£3.8 million) reward on April 12 for information leading to the arrest of the leaders of Ireland’s Kinahan drug trafficking gang, which it compared to some of the world’s most renowned criminal organizations.
US sanctions were also imposed on gang bosses who, according to Irish authorities, went from supplying heroin and cocaine in Dublin in the 1990s to operating across Europe.
The United States offered a reward for information leading to the Kinahan gang’s ‘financial devastation’ or the arrest and conviction of its leaders, Christy Kinahan Senior and his sons Daniel and Christopher Junior.
The gang is thought to have made over £833 million through a variety of illicit activities, including more than a dozen killings (1 billion euros).
Daniel Kinahan, one of the three leaders named by U.S. authorities, has been involved in organising high profile boxing fights in recent years.
He was credited by world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury with helping broker a potential unification bout two years ago.
‘The Kinahan transnational criminal organisation joins the ranks of Italy’s Camorra, Mexico’s Los Zetas, Japan’s Yakuza and Russia’s ‘”Thieves In Law”,’ Gregory Gatjanis, an associate director at the U.S Treasury Department, told a news conference in Dublin.
The £3.8 million ($5 million) reward was also offered for information leading to the financial disruption of Daniel Kinahan, whom the Treasury said is believed to run day-to-day operations, his brother Christopher Junior and father Christopher Senior, the gang’s founder and leader.
All three are in the United Arab Emirates, with whom Ireland does not have an extradition treaty. The U.S. Treasury said the group frequently uses Dubai as a hub for illicit activities.