Foxtrot
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Oct 18, 2026
Gavin GreyCORRESPONDENT
and 19 rounds of live ammunition and a lot of cash.
Gavin GreyCORRESPONDENT
The jury was told that the teen was recruited by something called the Foxtrot Network.
Gavin GreyCORRESPONDENT
And that's been described by Swedish police and Swedish organised crime as a group of organized crime that is backed by Iran and the Iranian regime itself.
Gavin GreyCORRESPONDENT
Now, he admitted to possession of the firearms and ammunition and was unanimously found guilty of conspiracy to murder.
Gavin GreyCORRESPONDENT
The Foxtrot network has been sanctioned by both the UK and its US for close links to the Iranian government.
Gavin GreyCORRESPONDENT
And although I say the target remain unclear, how this chap was caught is pretty amazing.
Gavin GreyCORRESPONDENT
The police in Sweden found his handler, in other words, the one giving him instructions.
Charlotte GallagherHOST
This is the Global News Podcast.
Charlotte GallagherHOST
The Foxtrot Network is a Swedish criminal group that pays young people to carry out violent crimes on behalf of clients, including the Iranian state.
Charlotte GallagherHOST
It's under renewed scrutiny after a Norwegian teenager who traveled to the UK to kill for the group was jailed for 20 years.
Charlotte GallagherHOST
Johannes Natland was arrested before he could carry out the murder.
Daniel SandfordCORRESPONDENT
Justice Cheema-Grubb, uh, said that she was sure he would have gone through with the hit if counterterrorism police had not arrested him beforehand in Huddersfield.
Cheema-GrubbSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You were just 18 years old when you placed yourself in readiness to murder for money.
Cheema-GrubbSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The commission was for the Foxtrot Network and arranged online through social media platforms, but the idea of being involved in such an endeavor thrilled your immature personality, which was no longer tethered to the strong family and social network you had grown up in due to teenage drug addiction.
Daniel SandfordCORRESPONDENT
Just two days after being recruited, Natland flew to Manchester and picked up the guns in woodland in Huddersfield to carry out the hit.
Roger MacmillanGUEST
This is going to increase.
Sophia YanHOST
Uh, I'm interested in the Foxtrot Network.
Sophia YanHOST
There was a teenager who traveled from Norway to the UK to carry out a hit for an organized crime group.
Sophia YanHOST
This teenager, he's 19, uh, sentenced to 20 years in detention for...
Sophia YanHOST
He, he was just arrested.
Sophia YanHOST
And so this particular event was linked to the Foxtrot network.
Sophia YanHOST
It said that he was recruited, at least this is what the jury heard, that he was recruited by this network, and this is a, a network, a criminal network somehow backed by the Iranian regime.
Sophia YanHOST
What can you two share about Foxtrot itself and its operations in Europe?
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You were just 18 years old when you placed yourself in readiness to murder for money.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's no reason to think that you will be of any interest to the Foxtrot network after this conviction.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The opposite is true.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Your expendability was part of the attraction to them.
Daniel SanfordCORRESPONDENT
The Foxtrot Network is the organised crime group which recruited Nutland to carry out the murder.
Daniel SanfordCORRESPONDENT
It's based in Sweden and has links to Iran.
Daniel SanfordCORRESPONDENT
The judge said the group had developed an arm's-length method of recruiting young people to carry out violent crimes.
Daniel SanfordCORRESPONDENT
Two days after he was recruited, Natland flew to Manchester and picked up two guns in Woodland in Huddersfield to carry out the hit.
Lisa DwyerCORRESPONDENT
19-year-old Johannes Natland was found guilty in July of conspiracy to murder for agreeing to get paid to shoot an unknown target last year.
Lisa DwyerCORRESPONDENT
Authorities say he was recruited by the group known as the Foxtrot Network while playing an online game.
Lisa DwyerCORRESPONDENT
Natland's claim that he did not plan on following through was rejected.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
From the hotel, you sent a photograph of yourself smiling while holding one of the guns, with a song romanticizing the life of a hitman.
Lisa DwyerCORRESPONDENT
Just as Bobby Kema Grubb-
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The reason this conspiracy did not result in the death of another person was the intervention of law enforcement, not voluntary withdrawal on your part.
Lisa DwyerCORRESPONDENT
The Foxtrot Network has been sanctioned for violence against Jewish and Israeli targets in Europe.
Lisa DwyerCORRESPONDENT
I'm Lisa Dwyer.
Keith BlackHOST
He was arrested at a hotel in northern England with two guns and ammunition two days after arriving in the UK.
Keith BlackHOST
Natland was recruited by a Swedish organized crime group known as the Foxtrot Network while playing a game online.
Keith BlackHOST
The UK government has sanctioned it for violence against Jewish and Israeli targets in Europe.
Keith BlackHOST
Natland was sentenced today.