MTK promise to comply with US sanctions against Daniel Kinahan

Boxing promotion company MTK Global has released a statement promising to "take every measure to ensure" it complies with US sanctions and conduct no business with Daniel Kinahan in future.

In the statement today MTK says Kinahan has had no involvement in the company since 2017, when the co-founder allegedly parted ways with the company.

In 2020, MTK released a statement welcoming a partnership with Kinahan and the Dubai-based KHK Sports, which had appointed the Dubliner as a special advisor a week earlier.

In the 2020 press release from MTK, Kinahan was quoted as saying: "This is a monumental move for KHK Sports and MTK Global. Both organizations have been making substantial waves in the international combats sports landscape and combined, the sky is the limit in what they can achieve."

In May 2020, former MTK CEO Sandra Vaughan said in an interview that Kinahan advised fighters to sign management deals with MTK and operated as an independent advisor to some of their fighters.

The US government this week imposed sanctions on the three most senior members of the Kinahan organised crime group and offered a reward of up to $5m for information leading to their arrest or the financial disruption of the gang.

Daniel Kinahan, who has been named in the High Court as the controller and manager of the Kinahan gang, his father Christopher Snr, a convicted drug trafficker, and brother Christopher Jnr, who was caught travelling on a false identity document in Germany, have all been placed on an Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) list, a list of the US Treasury Department.

In today's statement MTK say they will "comply fully with the sanctions".

"MTK parted ways with Mr Kinahan in February 2017. He has had no interest in the business