Article: Italian mafia experts help gardaí to bring down ‘The Family’, Ireland’s major drug trafficking network

Twelve arrests – six here and six in Spain – crippled cocaine importation operation of the gang that filled void left in the wake of Kinahan/Hutch feud

Italian Mafia police experts are advising An Garda Síochána on how to take down Ireland’s number-one drug trafficking network, the west-Dublin crime gang known as The Family.

On Monday of last week, gardaí attached to the specialist Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau (DOCB) began a major offensive against the organisation in a swoop of arrests first in Ireland and later in Spain, with the latter probe involving various international police agencies.

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