Rawa Majid

Rawa Majid (born July 12, 1986), known as the Kurdish Fox, is a Swedish criminal, raised in Uppsala, but since 2018 resident in Turkey. He is suspected of being the main leader of the Swedish criminal organisation Foxtrot, which is linked to numerous shootings and bombings in Sweden, especially in the Stockholm and Uppsala regions, often carried out by children. The victims have been children, relatives to rival criminals and to former friends of Majid, as well as unintended victims. He is in conflict with several other criminal gangs and former Foxtrot members at the same time. He is internationally wanted for serious drug offenses and preparation for murder since August 2020, and has been named as one of Sweden's most wanted criminals. He was detained by the police in Iran, near the Iranian border on the 6th of October 2023. Biography Majid's parents are from Iraqi Kurdistan, but he was born in Iran when they were fleeing Iraq on the way to Sweden during the Iran-Iraq war. The family settled in Uppsala in Sweden when he was one month old. Relocation to Turkey After Rawa Majid served a long prison sentence his cousin was murdered. Because of the escalating threat Majid then experienced, he was allowed by Swedish authorities to leave Sweden in the summer of 2018, despite being under surveillance and on probation, and has since resided in Turkey. He managed to purchase Turkish citizenship in exchange for investments in 2020 through the Turkish golden visa program, despite being wanted by the Interpol. An extradition of Rawa Majid from Turkey has been requested by Sweden, but Turkey is strict on refusing to extradite citizens unless they commit crimes in Turkey or have dual citizenships. Swedish police shared intelligence about an operation to capture Majid with Turkish police, at highest-level, but the intelligence was leaked to members of the Foxtrot criminal network in 2022, according to Swedish police, and thus the operation was made impossible. In September 2023, the Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden threatened to suspend Sweden's financial aid to Turkey if Majid is not extradited, but later retracted the statement. In September 2023, Rawa Majid was believed to make an attempt to leave Turkey with a forged Italian passport. A legal process against Majid begun in Turkey, where the Turkish authorities started to investigate whether he had used fraudulent documents.