PLAZA Qatar capital Doha

Kinahan drugs cartel. A source said of Qatar: “It has a land border with the UAE and going by road is the easiest way of getting out of Dubai.

“There has been no sign of him in Dubai since the spring and the suspicion is he is either in Qatar full-time or is using the place as a safe base and moving around other Arab countries.”

The Republic’s Criminal Assets Bureau recently told the High Court that it recently tried to make contact with the Dubliner at several known addresses for him in Dubai.

A source said: “The belief is he is gone.”

All three Kinahan men,

Christy, 65, Daniel and Christopher Jr, 42, were named as international criminals by the US Department of the Treasury, which placed financial sanctions on them in April.

Their Us-linked assets were frozen and they were barred from flying on American airlines.

Companies from there were also barred from doing business with them anywhere in the world.