Declan Brady, also known as Mr Nobody, is an Irish criminal with convictions for possession of firearms and money laundering. [1] [2] He is a senior figure in the Kinahan Organised Crime Group founded by Christy Kinahan. [1] [2]
Brady grew up in Drimnagh. [1] His father was a haulier, but had a drinking problem. [1] He left school at 14 and worked for his father and eventually got his own truck licence. [3]
In July 2019 he pleaded guilty in the Special Criminal Court to possessing nine revolvers, four semi-automatic pistols, a sub-machine gun, an assault rifle and 1,355 rounds of ammunition at a unit in Greenogue Business Park, Rathcoole, County Dublin. [1] The firearms were found in a unit that was purported to be an office of a legitimate UK logistics company that has no offices in Ireland. [1] Firearms were found in the upstairs loft area during a search on 24 January 2017. [1]
He was sentenced to eleven and a half years. [1] Two other men were also convicted. [1]
He was charged in February 2021 with 16 non-scheduled offences under Section 7 of the Criminal Justice Act 2021. [3] [2] The charges related to money laundering and terrorist financing within the Republic of Ireland. [3] [2] All the offences he was alleged to have committed took place between 1 January 2012 and 24 January 2017. [3] [2] In April 2021 he pleaded guilty in the Special Criminal Court to hiding €268,000 in the loft of a premises in Naas. [3] [2]
At a further hearing on 14 June 2021, Brady, his wife and Lukacs all pleaded guilty to further money laundering charges. [4] Brady declared "no gross income" from 2013 to 2017, but had five bank accounts and admitted laundering over €418,000. [4] His wife Deirdre also told Revenue she had no income, but had eight bank accounts and admitted laundering €770,000. [4] She also admitted transferring over €140,000 to a Spanish account of Thomas Kavanagh over five years. [4] She paid €3,000 a month to her husband's Spanish mortgage account for a property in Cala d'Or, more than €138,000 between 2014 and 2016. [4] The couple paid over €66,000 to the Druids Glen hotel for the wedding of a relative. [4] Mrs Brady unwittingly paid the rent on a property lived in by her husband and Ms. Lukacs. [4]
All three have paid money to the Criminal Assets Bureau. [4] The Bradys were assessed as owing €622,929 and still owe €173,649. [4] They have sold properties in Firhouse, Wolstan Abbey and in Tavira to pay over €449,000. [4] The properties in Cala d'Or were seized by a Spanish bank. [4]
Lukacs settled with the Criminal Assets Bureau for €71,327. [4]
The three were sentenced in July 2021 with Declan Brady being jailed for seven years and three months for laundering crime cash while his wife and Lukacs received three-year suspended sentences. [5]
In June 2024, Brady was sentenced to ten years in jail with the final year suspended for his involvement with the killing. [6] [7] Brady, who claimed that he is no longer affiliated with the Kinahan gang, is already serving sentences for money laundering and firearms offences. [7] The final year of his sentence was suspended on condition that Brady continued disassociating from the gang. [7]
He is married, but has separated from his wife and is in a relationship with a Hungarian national with whom he has a young daughter, who has a rare genetic disorder. [1] He was living in Celbridge at the time of his firearms conviction. [1]
He was a senior mourner at the funeral of David Byrne, who was killed in a shooting at the Regency Hotel. [8] He was known as "Mr Nobody" because Gardaí did not know who he was until the funeral. [4]