Majid is suspected of being the main leader of the Swedish criminal organisation Foxtrot, which is linked to numerous shootings and bombings in Sweden.
[8] 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.
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.
[1] Voice recordings show that two weeks later, Majid and an 18-year-old man planned to carry out another murder against the leader of the Bandidos, but the act was interrupted when they were discovered by police detectives.
[3] Majid has been in an escalating conflict with the Dalen gang since December 2022,[3] and with its leader Mikael Tenezos, also called The Greek, who resides outside of Sweden.
[22][23] An internal conflict within the Foxtrot network has arisen between Majid and a phalanx around his former right-hand man Ismail Abdo, who also resides in Turkey.
[3] On September 2, 2023, Abdo's mother, a woman in her 60s, was shot and killed in the Gränby area of Uppsala, likely as a revenge for a shooting against Majid and his allies in Turkey.
[25][26][27] On September 13, 2023 Majid's mother in law was the target of a shooting in Cervin's building in Uppsala, 70 kilometres north of Stockholm.