EXCLUSIVE: The 61-year-old was photographed scrolling on his phone at a bar counter shortly after getting out of Lanzarote's Tahiche Prison on bail last Monday
Here is Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch celebrating his prison release in Lanzarote with a pint in a local bar as he mulls over running as a candidate in the general election.
Meanwhile, the Irish Mirror understands that Hutch, who remains under investigation in Spain for alleged money laundering, has not yet registered with the Dublin City returning officer to run in the general election. He is further rumoured to have told pals that he intends to set up his campaign headquarters in his old stomping ground at the Corinthians Boxing Club in the inner city.
In a surprising development, a spokesman for the Canary Islands High Court of Justice told this paper last week: “In reference to the alleged leader of an international gang of criminals who yesterday was provisionally released on bail of €100,000, the investigating court reports that, apart from the aforementioned bail to ensure his presence at the trial, no other precautionary measure has been imposed.
The spokesman previously said Hutch was being investigated “as the alleged perpetrator of a money laundering crime committed within the scope of a criminal organisation.” Last April, Hutch was sensationally acquitted in the Special Criminal Court of the gangland murder of Kinahan cartel associate David Byrne at Dublin's Regency Hotel.
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