The teenager was arrested in Sydney and is suspected of having tried to recruit people for murder assignments in, among other places, Sweden and Denmark. He is also suspected of being part of a criminal network.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms the arrest to TT and states that a 15-year-old Swedish citizen has been detained in Australia.
According to the Swedish police, the teenager appears in several Swedish preliminary investigations.
"With reference to the secrecy of preliminary investigations, we will not provide further comments at present. The cooperation between Swedish, Danish, and Australian police in the matter will continue," writes police spokesperson Diana Qudhaib in an email.
The arrest in Sydney was made at the request of the Danish police, in close cooperation with Swedish and Australian police.
"Together with the Australian police, we have struck against an organized criminal network from the Nordic region. We have thereby stopped a 15-year-old man, whom we suspect has been tasked with recruiting people for murder assignments in Denmark and Sweden as part of the ongoing gang conflict in the Nordic region," says Vice Police Inspector Lars Feldt-Rasmussen in a press release.
The National Security Unit suspects that the 15-year-old has ordered the assignments from Australia, where he has lived since the autumn of 2024.
The operation is part of an operation against recruitment chains within criminal networks. The National Security Unit states that the operation will continue and that they will also target individuals suspected of having "controlled" the Swedish teenager.
