John Gilligan, the convicted Irish gangster, is currently in custody in Spain. He was arrested in December 2024 after police discovered a pink cocaine laboratory at his villa in Orihuela Costa, Costa Blanca. Following this arrest, he was remanded into custody by a judge as part of a major drugs operation involving his associates and a Macedonian criminal family
. Previously, Gilligan was released from Irish prison in 2013 after serving 17 years for drug trafficking. Since then, he has faced multiple arrests, including a 2018 arrest for money laundering in Northern Ireland and a 2020 arrest in Spain for drug trafficking, after which he was released on bail
. As of early 2025, John Gilligan remains jailed in Spain due to the discovery of the drug lab and related charges, with no trial date set yet
