Graham "the wig" Whelan is an Irish criminal who is part of the Kinahan Organised Crime Group.
[3] He was one of three men arrested in the Holiday Inn Hotel in Pearse Street in 2000 for possession of €1.6 million worth of ecstasy tablets and cocaine.
Declan Gavin, the third man arrested, was fatally stabbed a week before his trial was due to start.
[3] He was convicted of grievous bodily harm in Spain in 2016 after a brawl and sentenced to two years imprisonment suspended.
[3] At the Special Criminal Court defence council admitted that he had been "truculent" but that he had since become cooperative.