May 13, 9:49 AM
Swedish Foxtrot Network Bigwig Nailed in Tunisia, Police Confirm
Another high-value target falls as Sweden's gang war goes international. This time, the hunting ground was North Africa.
The tentacles of Sweden's most notorious criminal network now stretch as far as North Africa. And on Tuesday, one of its central figures found himself on the wrong end of a Tunisian police operation.
Swedish police announced that a man around 30 years old, suspected of several violent crimes including murder, was arrested over the weekend in Tunisia. The operation was the result of close cooperation between law enforcement in Sweden and Tunisia.
Niclas Andersson, head of the investigation unit at the National Operations Department (NOA), said in a statement that the arrest is considered strategically important and is believed to impact the criminal network's ability to carry out violent crime. Public broadcaster SVT identified the arrested man as Mohamed "Moewgli" Mohdhi, reportedly the right-hand man of Foxtrot leader Rawa Majid.
Police said the man was classified as a so-called "high value target" in the Swedish-led operation "Grimm." That operation is aimed at countering the surge of "violence as a service" – the online recruitment of individuals, often minors, to carry out violent acts on behalf of people who are frequently located abroad.
Foxtrot formed in the late 2010s around Majid and has since been linked to dozens of violent crimes in Sweden. The network is based around the capital Stockholm and the town of Uppsala, where Majid is originally from.
Sweden has struggled for more than a decade to contain gang violence primarily tied to score-settling and battles for control of the drug market. In July 2025, Swedish police announced the arrest of another major figure: Ismael Abdo, the head of Foxtrot's rival organisation, Rumba, who was caught in Turkey. Earlier this month, police said that over the past three years, 23 innocent bystanders have been killed and 30 wounded in gangland shootings.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told the TT news agency that the main effect of the arrest is the signal it sends. He was quoted as saying that Sweden will not back down and will go after these individuals one by one, even abroad, if they pose a danger to people in Sweden.
Tunisia, for its part, has not yet commented on whether Mohdhi will face local charges or be extradited to Sweden. Either way, another piece of the Foxtrot puzzle just got locked in a cell.
Written by Andreas Hofer
