Socialite Fran Fennell lived it up on a rollercoaster of holidays and nights out with models and executives while selling vast amount of cocaine to the party circuit. And he made vast profits from a unique cocaine start up which saw him fly human mules from Ireland to Australia where he could quadruple his profits.
But the playboy dealer who was groomed by underworld killer Eamon ‘The Don’ Dunne and who supplied Dublin high society with lines of cocaine has lost it all after law enforcement on both sides of the globes cracked down on his business and seized his money and shut down his gang.
This month Fennell was told he will do eight years in jail for drug trafficking while his co-accused were handed sentences for their roles in the operation.
Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about Fennell, his background and his likely future after jail.
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Episode 505: How law enforcement eavesdropped on criminals
Episode 504: The life and crimes of Real IRA brothers Vinny and Alan Ryan
Episode 503: The grooming of children by drug gangs
Episode 502: Jimmy ‘Shades’ Smyth found not guilty following ‘Supergrass’ trial
Episode 501: Ridouan Taghi found guilty following Marengo trial
Episode 500: The murder of Anna Finnegan
Episode 499: Kerry men charged for €30 million meth haul appear in court
Episode 498: Mr Nobody's sentencing hearing for murder of Noel 'Duck Egg' Kirwan
Episode 497: 'Red' Larry McCarthy and Limerick's criminal clans
Episode 496: The life and crimes of former football star Anthony Stokes
Episode 495: The murder of Hutch associate Jason 'Buda' Molyneaux
Episode 494: The life and crimes of Christy Keane's sister Sandra Hehir
Episode 493: €30 million worth of meth seized in Cork linked to Irish wing of Sinaloa cartel
Episode 492: Fentanyl - What is it and will the drug reach Irish shores?
Episode 491: Hunting the money launderers - The business of crime
Episode 490: John Mangan and his involvement in the unsolved murder of Martin 'Marlo' Hyland
Episode 489: CAB targets Natalie and Edward Chiper's Co Louth mansion
Episode 488: Mexico to Kerry - Inside the Irish wing of the Sinaloa Cartel
Episode 487: Freddie Scappaticci and the Kenova report
Episode 486: Collopy brothers found not guilty of assault after witness retracts statement
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