Posted on 07/04/2025 11:54:00 PM PDT by piasa
The head of one of Sweden's biggest crime organizations, accused of instigating a surge in violent crime, has been arrested more than 1,600 miles away in Turkey, Swedish police said on Friday.
Police did not identify the man by name but Swedish media named him as 35-year-old Ismail Abdo, head of the Rumba crime organization and alleged to have been orchestrating operations from abroad.
Abdo is one of Sweden's most wanted criminals and the subject of an international arrest warrant since 2024.
The Scandinavian country, once known for its low crime rates, has struggled for years to rein in organized crime.
Criminal networks are involved in drug and arms trafficking, welfare fraud, and regular shootings and bombings that have plagued the country in recent years.
The networks are also reported to have infiltrated Sweden's welfare sector, local politics, legal and education system as well as juvenile detention care.
Police say the leaders of the criminal networks increasingly operate from abroad, orchestrating murders and attacks via social media and often recruiting young children under the age of criminal responsibility to carry out the attacks. Abdo once led the Foxtrot crime network together with Rawa Majid -- Sweden's other most wanted criminal who was sanctioned earlier this year by the U.S. Treasury -- and the two are suspected of having controlled large parts of the Swedish drug market.
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Abdo was arrested in a raid conducted by Turkish security forces, police said.
"In a law enforcement operation in Turkey, Turkish police have today arrested a Swedish man who for many years has been suspected of drug-related crimes and instigating serious violent crimes in Sweden," police said in a statement. ...
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“Criminal networks are involved in drug and arms trafficking, welfare fraud, and regular shootings and bombings that have plagued the country in recent years. The networks are also reported to have infiltrated Sweden’s welfare sector, local politics, legal and education system as well as juvenile detention care.”
If they now want to call their Immigrants “Criminal Networks” that works for me.
Rawa Majid:
...Foxtrot gang of notorious Iranian-born criminal Rawa Majid, known as the “Kurdish Fox”, who is currently believed to running the gang in Sweden from a hideout in Turkey....-— from another FR thread
If only there was a common thread to identify the problem...
Bttt...
Sweden needs to look across the Øresund and follow Denmark’s example. Denmark has decided it is tired of being ‘enriched’ by the third world.
The biggest criminal organization in Sweden is the Swedish government that allowed these criminals into their country - bringing in vicious crime, terrorizing the native born population and creating "no-go" zones in Swedish cities.
Sweden is now the rape capital of Europe.
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