Published 9 August 2021 at 18.18
Domestic. A fraudster who calls himself “Mr M” has tricked Swedish women into donating money that is alleged to go to “starving” Afghans who have been deported to Kabul, Svenska Dagbladet reports. Instead, the money should have ended up in the man's pockets and also gone to drugs for the deportees. Uppsala who collected at least SEK 50,000 for the man.
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Mousavi – who calls himself “Mr M” on social media – has sent a series of begging letters to private individuals in Sweden with various tear-jerking stories.
SvD's review shows that he focused on women who are committed to Afghan men – women who are derogatory are often called “batik witches”.
Many of the stories Mousavi has brought have been about Afghans who deported to Afghanistan have found themselves in distress. He has since asked his contacts in Sweden to deposit money in an account at an international bank.
Among other things, “Mr M” got a woman in Uppsala, who had previously been involved in the movement “We do not stand out” and had Afghan men living with her, to collect at least 50,000 kronor, according to SvD. To that end, he used a story about helping a group of young Afghan women in Kabul start a beauty salon. One of the girls was then allegedly injured in a bombing, so more money was needed for an operation.
SvD has spoken to two colleagues at Mousavi who describe him as “a liar, a swindler and a saboteur” . One of them says that he reacted to Mousavi collecting money for deported Afghans who claimed that they were “hungry”.
– I contacted the people in Sweden who sent the money, but it was as if they did not want to listen to what I said, says the colleague to SvD.
Money that was alleged to go to food and health care was used instead by they deported “to buy drugs”, he continues.
Two deported Afghan men tell SvD that Mousavi also cheated state subsidies that would go to integrate the deported.
SvD managed to find Mousavi, and then he was busy building a large five-storey house for himself and his family in Kabul. He sweats and stutters and claims that he will return for a message about an interview with the girls, but he never does.
The woman in Uppsala who collected money for Mousavi tells SvD that she has now lost confidence for him.
– I thought that if this is true then it's awful not to help. And rather that I get cheated once too much than that I get so cold in my heart that I do not want to help anymore, the woman tells the newspaper.