The work that went into such a smooth arrest was decades in the making, however. Work that, for a time, was centred in the world of boxing. There are numerous files detailing Kinahan’s movements in the sport, BoxingScene has been told. And it’s the paper trails – or indeed, lack of – that those who worked with him might now be thinking carefully about. For example, text conversations that occurred on crypted phones from the time of Kinahan’s peak within boxing have been cracked by authorities. It’s plausible that certain deals that were secured in boxing, and the financial terms of them, occurred while using those phones from which the authorities have already obtained details.