The Left Party’s controversial Member of Parliament Mohamed Abdukardir Ali continues to accrue new debts despite already undergoing debt restructuring. Expressen now reveals that his car has been towed and scrapped after repeated illegal parking. At the same time, the Enforcement Authority has been forced to hire process servers after Ali failed to respond to their demands. The politician has yet to appear in parliament and is currently on sick leave but is still entitled to a remuneration of just over SEK 81,000 per month. When Expressen contacted him for a comment, he answered the newspaper’s questions in Somali.
Mohamed Abdukardir Ali, who was elected into parliament for the Left Party in Dalarna through a personal preference campaign that was challenged for electoral fraud, already has a debt restructuring arrangement running until June 2027. This covers debts of just over SEK 163,000, which were accumulated up until 2022. But despite the ongoing restructuring, Ali has continued to rack up new debts.
According to information from the Enforcement Authority to Samnytt, several new cases have landed on their desk. These debts are not covered by the previously approved debt restructuring.
Ali has previously assured that he intends to settle his debts once he starts receiving his parliamentary salary. Nevertheless, he has not responded to the Enforcement Authority’s requests regarding his new debts. The agency has therefore handed the cases over to process servers, who so far have failed to make contact with the MP.
Illegally Parked – Car Towed and Scrapped
One of the debts concerns an Opel Corsa that was registered to Mohamed Ali in autumn 2024, while his debt restructuring was already ongoing. The car was repeatedly parked illegally in the immigrant-dominated Rinkeby district in northwestern Stockholm, despite a parking ban in that area. It is unclear why Ali, who resides in Dalarna, had his vehicle parked in a Stockholm suburb.
By February 2025, the car had accumulated more than SEK 5,000 in parking fines. The City of Stockholm then decided to tow the vehicle. The municipality attempted to contact Ali, but was unsuccessful. Because the car owner could not be reached, the car was scrapped in March of the same year.
The City of Stockholm now seeks compensation for the towing and storage costs. Together with additional fees and interest, the debt has grown to SEK 9,798. The claim was transferred to the Enforcement Authority on October 2 and forwarded for process service on October 12.
No Response to Enforcement Authority – May Be Sought in Parliament
The second new debt amounts to SEK 14,495 and concerns unpaid traffic insurance fees for the now impounded and scrapped vehicle. The Enforcement Authority sent an initial request to Ali on September 22. When no response was received, a reminder was sent ten days later. That, too, went unanswered.
On October 7, this case was also handed over for process service. According to the Enforcement Authority, the requests have been sent to Ali’s digital mailbox, but he has neither acknowledged receipt nor stated his position regarding the payment demands. The next step may be for the agency’s process servers to attempt to track him down in person at his home or workplace, which would now be the Swedish Parliament, if he is assumed to be there.
According to an Enforcement Authority official interviewed by Samnytt, Ali also has a third debt. This concerns a payment order from August 28, 2024, for SEK 55,129 owed to a company called Pro Nordic Education AB.
The company, which operated in the travel industry, has since gone bankrupt. Despite having no income, Ali has made several trips to his native country, Somalia. At the time of writing, Samnytt has not been able to confirm whether the debt to Pro Nordic Education AB arose in connection with these trips.
Receives SEK 81,400 Per Month – Debt Restructuring to Be Reviewed
Mohamed Ali’s previous debt restructuring was granted on the grounds that he lacked the financial means to pay his debts. The Enforcement Authority assessed that he would not be able to pay them for the foreseeable future. He was therefore given a payment plan under which he did not have to pay anything to his creditors for the time being.
However, since September, Ali has been a member of parliament, entitled to a remuneration of SEK 81,400 per month before tax. This significantly changes his financial situation. According to Expressen, the debt restructuring will now be reviewed in light of his new income.
It is not clear, however, who has requested the review or whether a new decision has already been made. The Enforcement Authority has previously told Samnytt that it does not review a debt restructuring on its own initiative simply because the debtor’s finances improve. Such a review must be requested by the debtor or any of the creditors.
It therefore remains to be clarified who took the initiative in Ali’s case. When Samnytt contacted the agency a few days ago, no such request had been received.
The Left Party has at the same time announced that Ali will be exempted from the party’s otherwise mandatory party tax, so that he can instead use the money to pay his debts.
– He will pay off his debt first. Then he doesn’t have to pay the party tax during that period, explained Agnes Stuber of the Left Party’s press service earlier in October.
Communicates with Expressen in Somali
While the Enforcement Authority tries to contact Ali, questions persist regarding his absence from parliamentary work. Despite being elected in September, he has yet to make an appearance in parliament.
Ali previously applied for leave for the period September 28 to October 11. However, no decision was taken before the requested leave ended. He then notified Swedish Radio that he would come to parliament, but instead reported in sick.
On Wednesday, parliament rejected his leave application. What illness or health problem has suddenly affected Ali and prevents him from participating in parliamentary work has not been disclosed.
Expressen has sought Ali for answers as to why he has not responded to the Enforcement Authority’s demands despite his previous promises to repay his debts. Ali replied with a message in Somali in which he explained that he did not wish to answer the newspaper’s questions and that he himself decides which media he wants to speak to.
Received Citizenship Despite Debts – Identity Not Proven
The new debt revelations also highlight previous questions as to how Mohamed Ali could have been granted Swedish citizenship at all. As previously reported by Samnytt, he was granted citizenship on February 20, 2026, even though his debt restructuring was still ongoing.
According to the Migration Agency’s rules, debts with the Enforcement Authority normally prevent the granting of citizenship. Even after debts are settled, applicants generally must have remained debt-free for an additional period, usually two years, to show that their financial problems are over.
Ali had previously been denied a citizenship application precisely because of his debts. Despite the fact that the debt restructuring was not due to end until June 2027, his later application for citizenship was approved. On top of this, there are new debts that arose after the debt restructuring decision and still remained unpaid when citizenship was granted.
Ali’s identity has also come under scrutiny. Kvartal recently revealed that Ali was granted permanent residence in Sweden in 2013 without his identity being regarded as proven. He then applied for residency through a parent in Sweden, not via an asylum application of his own.
When he later acquired new alien’s passports, in both 2017 and 2023, the Migration Agency once again determined that Ali’s identity had not been proven. Despite this, he became a Swedish citizen in February this year.
The Migration Agency has stated that in certain circumstances, it is possible to grant citizenship even without proven identity, for example, when a person has used the same identity details for a long time in Sweden. The agency will not disclose whether such an exception was applied in Ali’s case, citing confidentiality.
It is therefore unclear if the Migration Agency ultimately found his identity to be proven, and if so on what basis, or if the citizenship was granted based on the exception rules—which would mean that no one actually knows who the Left Party’s newly elected MP really is.
Suspected Electoral Fraud Pushed Him Into the Spotlight
Mohamed Ali became nationally known after the parliamentary election in September, when he managed to pass several more established Left Party candidates in Dalarna through 648 personal preference votes. He was originally ninth on the party list.
After the election, information emerged that voters in Borlänge had received ballots with Ali’s name already checked. There have also been reports of organized transportation to polling stations and attempts to influence voters, including monetary incentives to vote for Ali.
The police have launched an investigation into suspected undue influence during voting. Ali has denied any wrongdoing and, at the time of writing, has not himself been formally notified as a suspect.
The Left Party has distanced itself from any potential electoral fraud, but Ali has so far retained his seat in parliament. The party has, however, offered him a position with equivalent pay should he resign his seat, something he has so far declined. A member of parliament can also be removed from office following a court review.
Growing Questions Surrounding the Left Party Politician
With the new information, yet another circumstance has been added to the series of controversies surrounding the Left Party’s newly elected MP. While entitled to a parliamentary salary of over SEK 80,000 per month, he has new unpaid debts, an ongoing debt restructuring and two cases where the Enforcement Authority has failed to reach him.
In addition, there are still unanswered questions regarding the citizenship decision and the police investigation into suspected electoral fraud following his personal election success. For the Enforcement Authority, however, the most immediate task is more concrete: getting in touch with the MP and collecting debts totaling SEK 80,000.