When the police said they had uncovered an international drug distribution organization, many people paid attention to one fact: that, according to the police, the dangerous Swedish Dödspatrullen criminal network is connected to the whole.
Dödspatrullen, or Death Patrol in Finnish, has been linked to several murders of members of rival gangs in Sweden.
During the preliminary investigation, the police arrested 30 people, 17 of whom are still in custody. The suspects are mainly in their twenties and there are a wide variety of nationalities.
According to ‘s information, the arrests made in Finland in connection with the skein have targeted especially the RK-98 gang operating in Vuosaari, Helsinki. According to ‘s information, several of their members would have been arrested in this investigation, and that the RK-98 gang would have a connection with the Dödspatrullen.
Regarded as the leader of the RK-98 street gang Abdinashir Mohamud Ali was recently sentenced in July to eight years in prison at the Helsinki District Court. A total of 12 people in the street gang received an unconditional prison sentence at that time.
Six of the suspects in the drug ring announced by the police this week were active in Sweden. It is suspected that they were partly responsible for importing drugs into Finland. Four of them are the core of the Dödspatrullen.
found out the backgrounds of these six people who live in Sweden or have an influence there.
A 49-year-old Serbian man and an 18-year-old Malmö man are also connected to the same story. They are also suspected of serious drug crimes.
Crime reporter: Dödspatrullen has tried to recruit relatives from Finland
The Swedish criminal organization had extensive networks in Finland. Director of Investigations of the Helsinki Police, Crime Commissioner Mikko Nikkanen according to, networks are often formed according to ethnic background.
– Networks are formed according to who we are, where we are from and what language we speak. The Swedish and Finnish networks have ethnic similarities. Young people are hard at networking, and they have many acquaintances in many countries who are people with the same immigration background.
Crime reporter Diamant Salihun according to the Dödspatrullen members have tried to recruit their relatives from Finland.
The suspects have an immigrant background.
The prisoners have lived in their own conditions and have not made any noise about themselves, says Nikkanen.
Nikkanen describes the Swedish suspects as professionals whose activities are not related to gangsta rap culture. Gangsta rap is a genre of music that glorifies violence, chauvinism, street gangs and crime.
– Rap hasn’t played. No show where you try to boost your own ego with rap lyrics, and no feats (visiting musical songs) with Finnish gangs, but a very low profile, says Nikkanen.