After several weeks of absence, the Left Party’s Member of Parliament, Mohamed Ali, made his return to the Swedish parliament on Thursday. He agreed to interviews with several media outlets, but when Expressen began asking critical questions about his debts and a fabricated company, the conversation quickly ended. The party’s press secretary, Maria Carlsson, intervened and interrupted the interview before journalists could ask their follow-up questions.
Mohamed Ali has, for the past month, avoided answering questions about his significant debts and the incorrect information he provided regarding his professional background. When he returned to parliament on Thursday for his first day back after his absence, several media outlets were waiting to interview him.
The mainstream media outlets SVT, TV4, Aftonbladet, and the left-wing publication ETC were given the opportunity to speak with the MP. However, when it was Expressen’s turn—who had previously uncovered several of the irregularities—the answers became much harder to come by.
Expressen’s reporters wanted to know, among other things, why Ali had not answered questions about his debts for several weeks and why the Swedish Enforcement Authority (Kronofogden) had needed to hire process servers to contact him. The MP said the recent period had been mentally taxing.
— It has been a particularly stressful time for me over the past four weeks. I couldn’t respond to every message or every email. I didn’t respond at all, he told Expressen.
Fabricated Company: “Don’t have much information”
When the questions moved on to the international company Verisom, which Ali had claimed on his LinkedIn profile to have founded and served as CEO, he admitted that the company never existed.
— Exactly. I don’t have much information about that. I need to look back, since it was a long time ago, about two years ago.
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However, when the reporter pointed out that the information had remained on his profile until quite recently, Ali was spared from answering. The Left Party’s press secretary Maria Carlsson then stepped in and tried to end the interview.
The Islamist Communist Party VPK stops the interview with Expressen as soon as they begin to investigate why their politicians claim things that are not true. Really unpleasant atmosphere, one must say. There are only more questions and it is impossible to understand why VPK is doing this? If he can’t sort out what he’s doing, then they might as well exclude him!
— Ränta på ränta (@RantaPaRanta) October 22, 2026
Nevertheless, there were a few more questions, this time about why Ali had three cars registered in his name despite his debt restructuring. One of the cars had accumulated parking tickets and was ultimately scrapped by the City of Stockholm after authorities failed to contact him.
Ali explained that these were cheap scrap cars and promised to pay the debts. But when Expressen wanted to know why he acquired the cars in the first place, even though they contributed to his mounting debts, the press secretary again stepped in.
This time, she definitively ended the interview, leading Mohamed Ali further into the Left Party’s offices. The result was an interview where the party’s press secretary essentially acted as a protective parent for an MP seemingly unable to handle critical follow-up questions on his own.
The Criminal Investigation Accelerates
At the same time, new information emerged in the investigation into suspected election fraud connected to Mohamed Ali’s personal election campaign. Prosecutor Oskar Edvardsson at the National Anti-Corruption Unit announced on Thursday that three people are now suspects in the preliminary investigation and are to be questioned. The announcement follows several twists in the investigation.
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Edvardsson initially closed the investigation during the election campaign, but revived it following protests from the Police Authority after Mohamed Ali was elected to parliament via preferential votes.
Since then, just over a month has passed, and it has now been almost two months since the police, after receiving tips, began surveillance of the personal election campaign in connection with the advance voting in Borlänge.
At the same time, new information emerged in the investigation into suspected election fraud connected to Mohamed Ali’s personal election campaign. Prosecutor Oskar Edvardsson at the National Anti-Corruption Unit announced on Thursday that three people are now suspects in the preliminary investigation and are to be questioned.
The three have been assigned public defense attorneys by the district court. Mohamed Ali states that he himself is suspected of a crime in the investigation related to his own campaign in Borlänge.
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