ZEN gangster Ross Browning has declared that it is “time to let go of hate and negative lows” in his latest piece of poetry released in nearly a year.
The Kinahan gangster – who the Criminal Assets Bureau declared was the cartel’s No 1 man in Ireland – has posted a number of his musings on social media over the 18 months.
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In the fitness fanatic’s latest post he sent out his “love and a big hug” as he posed for pictures juggling tennis balls.
And his poem read: “My soul and my heart knows, with inner work it grows, and on the outside it shows.
“This bright light glows, in all the highs and lows.
“It’s time to let go of hate and negative lows. Connect to your hearts and your souls.
“Your inner world knows, my soul sisters and my soul bros”.
The gangland thug then signed off with, “blessings, Ross.”
In another post, Browning declared: “New beginnings.”
The exterior the goon poses as on social media is a far cry from his life as a career criminal with a long association with organised crime.
The Criminal Assets Bureau stripped €1.5million of assets from him as the High Court established that he was mob boss Daniel Kinahan’s topman here.
In the judgement from the High Court, it read: “The evidence tendered on behalf of the Bureau establishes as a matter of probability that Ross Browning has had an ongoing significant involvement in organised crime for a number of years and is a senior member of the Kinahan organised crime gang.
“This transnational gang is involved in importation and distribution of drugs and firearms in Ireland.”
It added: “Ross Browning has associations with Daniel Kinahan and other senior members of the Kinahan organised crime gang and of the Byrne gang.
“The Byrne gang is a subset of the Kinahan gang.”
BROWNING’S BACKSTORY
Browning, who grew up in the Hardwicke Street flats in Dublin’s north inner city, first came to garda attention in 2001 when he was involved in a cash-in-transit robbery with senior cartel member Robert Browne.
Browne is currently behind bars over the foiled plot to kill Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch’s brother Patsy in March 2018.
By 2007, it had become clear that Browning had become a close ally of the Kinahan cartel’s hierarchy, attending Christopher Jnr’s wedding that year.
Two years later he moved to Spain where the mob’s HQ was based at the time and when his residence was raided as part of Operation Shovel in 2010 a handgun was recovered.
Senior gardai established that Browning – who also attended Daniel Kinahan’s 2017 wedding in Dubai – is the mob’s “principal representative” here but plays a “hands off” role in handling drugs.
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