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Kinahan cartel top-dog Ross Browning spouts wellness waffle on social media

‘I pray for our children and the inner child insideof us all’

Eamon Dillon

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The man described as the Kinahan cartel’s top man in Ireland is still using social media to project an image of a lifestyle guru.

In his latest posts Ross Browning appears to be allowing his losses to the Criminal Assets Bureau wash right over him.

Standing in a waterfall surrounded by moss and fern-covered rocks the bare-chested Browning states: “I am grateful for the great water who provides me with the possibility of life and provides that for all of us sharing life on our beautiful Mother Earth.”

A key player in Ireland’s murderous international drug-trafficking organised crime gang, Browning pays tribute to how water supports life.

“I hope we can be conscious of how important the great water is to us all and to take more care of the great water,” he spouted.

Last year properties at Garristown in Co Meath where Browning lived with his family were deemed by the High Court to be the proceeds of crime.

During the CAB case it was heard how Browning was the cartel’s number one man in Ireland and at the heart of an international crime gang involved in €1 billion worth of illegal activities.

His associates named in the case included Daniel Kinahan, Liam Byrne and Fat Freddy Thompson, who is serving life for a feud related murder.

It also emerged that there was a seat for Ross Browning at Daniel Kinahan’s 2017 Burj al Arab wedding thanks to his senior rank in the Kinahan cartel.

He would have rubbed shoulders with the members of the super-cartel that included Comorra boss Rafaelle Imperiale, the ‘Balkan Escobar’ Edin Gacanin and Dutch Moroccan crime lord Ridouan Taghi.

In another recent post featuring a photo of Browning on a beach looking at a low sun he cryptically states: “In Ireland I stand where I will ground, grow and expand with this beautiful land.”

He pays tribute to his father and what he has “suffered to support me in this journey” finishing off the post with some verse.

“I pray for our children and the inner child inside of us all. This is my call to break down the wall between the small and the tall. And to build us a hall where together we mirror all.”

Another post sees Browning standing out-doors in the snow wearing a beanie hat and t-shirt while shaking his shoulders.

The picture is accompanied by more comments including this verse: “All along I was working on my inner wall, So that I won’t fall, To be small, For anyone at all.”

Fitness fanatic Browning has long espoused the benefits of exercise and healthy eating and used his criminal cash to set up a fitness centre.

When he was touting his lifestyle philosophy, his ‘Living 1’ gym at Cross Guns Bridge in Dublin didn’t have a bank account and was staffed with relatives.

He tried to disguise his drug money in Ireland through his family members who in return enjoyed his generosity when it came to cars, jewellery and foreign travel.

But Browning’s attempt to hide the origins of the cash didn’t stand up to scrutiny in the High Court, where he didn’t contest the case against him.

The Sunday World previously revealed how Browning has portrayed himself as an ordinary gym owner and kept an address at Hardwicke Street flats where he grew up.

He followed a spiritual guru, Dr Robert O’Young, and followed a vegan lifestyle, and even took part in an RTE’s Fittest Families show in 2016 which was cancelled.

The seizure of Browning’s properties is not the only successful CAB case against top-level members of the cartel, having won court orders to take over a mansion at Citywest used by mob boss Daniel Kinahan.