Tyson Fury has been denied entry to the United States because of his claimed ties to criminal lord Daniel Kinahan, according to reports.ies
The 33-year-old British boxer was in Liverpool tonight to watch Nathan Gorman and Thomas Salek battle for the vacant IBF International Heavyweight Championship at M&S Bank Arena.
It is unknown when this is considered to have occurred. Fury’s reps have been approached for comment by MailOnline.
Fury previously stated, “That’s none of my business and I don’t interfere with anybody else’s business,” in response to charges 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).
One of the three leaders cited by US authorities, Daniel Kinahan, has been involved in high-profile boxing contests in recent years.
Tyson Fury, the world heavyweight champion, credited him with brokering a prospective unification bout two years ago.
‘The Kinahan global criminal organization joins the ranks of the Camorra in Italy, the Los Zetas in Mexico, the Yakuza in Japan, and Russia’s “Thieves In Law,”‘ said Gregory Gatjanis, an associate director at the US Treasury Department, at a news conference in Dublin.
The £3.8 million ($5 million) prize was also offered for information leading to the financial disruption of Daniel Kinahan, his brother Christopher Junior, and father Christopher Senior, the gang’s founder and head, according to the Treasury.
All three are in the United Arab Emirates, a country with which Ireland has no extradition treaty. According to the US Treasury Department, the gang routinely uses Dubai as a base for illegal activities.