A key figure in the Foxtrot criminal network, who is alleged to be responsible for shootings in Sweden, has been arrested in Iraq as part of an operation to disrupt “assassination missions”.
Ali Shehab, 21, is accused of recruiting children to kill rival criminals and was detained in the city of Sulaymaniyah, in Iraq's Kurdistan region.
He is an associate of Rawa Majid, a gangster known as the Kurdish Fox, who founded the Foxtrot network.
Foxtrot has unleashed a wave of gang violence in recent years that has led to Sweden’s murder rate rising to among the highest in Europe.
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