Somali Immigrant in Sweden and His Citizenship Fraud

A Somali immigrant to Sweden obtained his citizenship through fraudulent claims. Then he ran for office on the far-left Social Democratic list, and was elected to the Swedish Parliament (Riksdag), despite not knowing Swedish. Now his fraud has been revealed and the Swedes are trying to figure out what to do. More on this alarming tale can be found here: “Somali MP Citizenship, Vote Fraud Scandal Fuels Calls for New Election in Sweden,” by Joakim Scheffer, Hungarian Conservative, October 26, 2026:

Almost two months have passed since Sweden’s highly controversial parliamentary election, which saw the Social Democratic-led leftist bloc secure a razor-thin victory over the anti-immigration Tidö coalition of right-wing parties. Yet, hardly a day has passed without more suspicious details emerging about that victory.

Most recently, former Social Democratic MP Widar Andersson filed a complaint against the Migration Agency over its decision to grant citizenship to Mohamed Abdukardir Ali, a newly elected Somali-Swedish MP for the far-left Left Party (V), whose unexpected election is already under scrutiny as part of a police investigation into suspected fraud.

Andersson asked the Parliamentary Ombudsman to examine why Ali received Swedish citizenship in February 2026 despite having previously been rejected over his financial conduct. ‘It is obvious that something has gone wrong,’ he said on Sunday, 25 October.

Documents obtained by Kvartal show that Ali received permanent residence through family reunification in September 2013, although the authorities did not formally verify his identity. He was also issued an alien’s passport noting that deficiency. His application had been submitted at Sweden’s embassy in Addis Ababa in May 2012, when he was 16.

In January 2023, Ali declared that he had no debts and referred to Sweden’s Enforcement Authority, despite entering a five-year restructuring arrangement only months earlier. The Migration Agency rejected his application, citing his failure to meet the good-conduct requirement. During subsequent proceedings, his representative claimed the arrangement had ended, and his debts had been settled; official records showed it ran until June 2027. In a later appeal, Ali again described the debt as fully repaid. Nevertheless, he was naturalized on 20 February 2026, six months before the election. The agency has not publicly explained its reversal.

Ali’s claimed business connections with Somalia have also unravelled under scrutiny. He described himself as the founder and chief executive of Verisom, an international development venture that Expressen could not locate in corporate registers. Through the Swedish company Afritech Growth, he pursued digital identity and other projects purportedly involving Somali officials. His business partner, former Moderate politician Agneta Nyvall, said she helped finance his trips to Somalia but now doubts whether the promised meetings took place.

The company Verisom, of which Ali claimed to be the “founder and chief executive,” turned out not to exist.

As for the Swedish company where, he claimed, he had “pursued digital identity and other projects” in Somalia, he apparently did not have enough money to travel to Somalia, so a Swedish politician paid his way, and she now says she believes that the meetings Mohamed Ali claimed had taken place were pure fantasy.

This tale of a business venture in Somalia was not known to Swedish authorities, and was, it seems, another of Ali’s quick fictions — his nonexistent business dealings in Somalia made up to convince the Swedes to grant him citizenship.

Ali entered Parliament from ninth place on the Left Party’s Dalarna list after securing 648 personal votes, enough to displace its leading candidate. Police are investigating allegations that voters were transported to polling stations and given pre-marked ballots; three people are now suspects, and interviews are expected this week. Ali has not been formally accused of any offence and denies involvement.

It sounds as though Ali’s campaign relied on a Muslim bloc of voters, transported to the polls in tammany-hall fashion and given ballots already marked in his favor. Police are still investigating.

The election result heightens the significance of the Ali scandal. The left-wing bloc secured 176 seats against 173 for the anti-immigration Tidö parties, with Reuters reporting 73,000 additional opposition votes across 786 immigrant-heavy districts compared with 2022. In Stockholm’s Rinkeby, roughly 94 per cent supported the opposition. The Left Party’s failure to properly vet Ali now hangs over a parliamentary majority partly secured through immigrant votes, making the entire post-election process resemble more of a Somali fraud investigation than the functioning of a Western democracy.

Had the Migration Agency done any kind of investigation of Ali’s claims not to be a debtor and to be a successful businessman who owned at least one company, Verisom, that did not exist, that might have led the agency not to grant him citizenship.

Will Mohamed Ali be allowed to keep his seat in the RIksdag? More importantly, will he keep his Swedish citizenship despite his fraudulent misrepresentation of his business history that enabled him to be given that citizenship? I suspect that he will lose both. And then, one hopes, he will be deported back to Somalia, where he, and his sister in citizenship fraud, Ilhan Omar, so clearly belong.