Bench Warrant Issued For Dundalk Man Due To Be Sentenced For Selling His Passport

Tuesday, 25 April 2023 16:22

By Caoimhe Harney

The passport was later used by the Kinahan Cartel

A bench warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man who sold a passport that was later used by the suspected head of the Kinahan cartel, Daniel Kinahan.

Seamus Walsh, of Mountain View Crescent in Dundalk, Co. Louth, was due to be sentenced today for selling his passport in 2011.

On the 5th of December 2011, Seamus Walsh applied for a passport using falsified documents. Following his arrest, he told the guards he was paid €2k to do so.

The passport photo didn’t match the one on his Public Services Card. Instead, it matched another application for Daniel Joseph Kinahan, who is widely believed to be the head of the Kinahan Organised Crime Group.

Walsh claimed he was "off his head" on drugs when he agreed to sell the passport.

He insisted he didn’t know who was going to use it.

It was accepted that he has no connection with Daniel Kinahan or organised crime.

The 43 year-old was due to be sentenced today but was a no-show when his name was called.

The judge was told he made contact with his solicitor last night to say he would be attending a funeral but efforts to contact him today were unsuccessful.

The investigating gardai are now trying to track him down.

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