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Swedish police said on Tuesday that a “central actor” in the country’s most notorious criminal network, Foxtrot, had been arrested in Tunisia.
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Police said in a statement that a man around 30 years old, who is suspected of several violent crimes including murder, had been arrested over the weekend by Tunisian police.
The operation was the result of close cooperation between law enforcement in Sweden and Tunisia.
“We consider this to be a strategically important arrest which we believe will impact the criminal network’s ability to carry out violent crime,” Niclas Andersson, head of the investigation unit at the National Operations Department (NOA), said in the statement.
Public broadcaster SVT reported that the man arrested was Mohamed “Moewgli” Mohdhi, who is reportedly Foxtrot leader Rawa Majid’s right-hand man.
Police said the man was considered a so-called “high value target” in the Swedish-led operation “Grimm” countering the surge of “violence as a service,” referring to the online recruitment of individuals, often minors, to carry out violent acts.
Those orchestrating the acts are often located abroad.
The Foxtrot criminal network was formed in the late 2010s around Majid and has been connected to dozens of violent crimes in Sweden. It is based around the capital Stockholm and the town of Uppsala, where Majid is from.
The Nordic country has struggled for more than a decade to contain gang violence linked primarily to score-settling and battles to control the drug market.
In July 2025, Swedish police announced the arrest of the head of Foxtrot’s rival Rumba organisation, Ismael Abdo, in Turkey.
Over the past three years, 23 innocent bystanders have been killed and 30 wounded in gangland shootings, police said earlier this month.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told news agency TT that main effect of the arrest announced Tuesday was “the signal it sends.”
“We will not back down. We will go after them one by one, even abroad, if they are dangerous to people in Sweden,” he said.
Additional sources • AFP
