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It is journalistically justified to let Masireh Jadama and Robin Quaison spread the word about the agency firm’s criminal connections and power over AIK.
But their words are precisely party submissions.
They do not change what is true.
This is how it is.
Masireh Jadama is formally a scout for Universal Twenty Two in Scandinavia, but in practice has a kind of leadership role for the successful agency firm.
After taxing over two million kroner in 2016 and 2017, he has reported a modest salary in the last five years. In 2020, 2021 and 2022, his determined earned income was zero kroner. But players have swished and transferred 8.7 million kroner, which led to the Tax Agency overvaluing him by 6.8 million.
“Not having time to investigate them all”
In addition, Masireh Jadama has connections to gang crime. This summer he went to a birthday party where, among others, a member of the Ali Khan network and one of the Tyson network participated. And in 2017, Jadama testified in a trial against professional criminals after receiving and forwarding large sums of money.
– We believe that he must be aware of where this money is coming from. It would be very strange to receive 100,000 kroner without knowing where it comes from, prosecutor Jim Westerberg told Sportbladet in connection with the trial and explained why Jadama was not charged:
– We don’t have time to hear or investigate everyone. Then the investigation would continue as long as possible without anyone being convicted.
Previously, Masireh Jadama was involved in the football project FC Ibra in Borås. The aim was to help young people drifting into a law-abiding life, but the team had a heavy gang criminal as its paid leader. The man, called the Godfather by Borås Tidning, earned 800,000 kroner during his four years at FC Ibra and used the platform to recruit young people to the Hässle network, which he was also the leader of.
Eight clubs freeze them out
Furthermore, Universal has acquired great power over AIK. Coaches and leaders have ensured that the agency’s youth players have benefited at the expense of others, which has also affected the A team sportingly. This spring, the training environment was “messy” because young players who did not place were still allowed to participate.
This summer, a young and promising coach was invited to AIK and about to be offered a contract. But the transfer was stopped after Masireh Jadama put “a form of strong pressure, which is unpleasant” (AIK’s club director Fredrik Söderberg’s words) on the club.
The overall picture has led to the loss of contact between AIK and Universal. They refuse to sign contracts with players represented by the agency. Eight more Allsvenskan clubs also freeze them out.
All these are facts.
It is nothing that needs to be debated or agreed upon, but taken from public information, established in solid reviews and in an intelligence report from the Borås police. Today’s ETC/Football Sthlm initiated the review, which was then taken on by Göteborgsposten, myself and my colleague Simon Bank.
Clouds the crystal clear
In addition to these articles, Sportbladet has interviewed Robin Quaison, who is close to Masireh Jadama. The national team player says he is shocked by the publications and calls the facts “accusations and rumours”. It is a text that lacks a given counter-question, which, standing alone, may seem evasive and therefore doubtful to publish, but which in the larger context is relevant. Because how can a star player be so loyal, even though his claims are easy to crumble? Surely he must have anticipated the reactions, the avalanche of fans who say on social media that he is not welcome at AIK again?
Today, Sportbladet publishes a long interview with the protagonist of this thread, who, like Quaison, clouds and questions what is crystal clear. Sharp questions are asked, exhaustive answers are given. The space is monumental but the text demands its reading comprehension.
Because Masireh Jadama has consistently refused to answer questions from the reporters most familiar with the tours, those who sit on sources and evidence that back up the actual articles. Instead, he sets up an interview with Erik Niva, and the zero rater flies in from Dubai for it.
Secretly where the money went
Masireh Jadama may extend that Universal and AIK have taken advantage of each other, but completely denies the incident with the youth coach. About the FC Ibra project, he obscures the fact that there were criminal elements on the leadership side, but insists that the coaches helped many young people to an orderly life, but that some were beyond saving and today are in prison.
The scout talks thoughtfully about penance and improvement, that even criminals must be given a second chance, and exemplifies his colleague Korosh Hatami, who was sentenced to prison for serious drug offenses in 2012 but since then “has worked full-time, paid taxes and helped young guys”. Jadama does not mention that Hatami was convicted of money laundering in 2014.
And so it continues.
The 8.7 million kroner he was charged was not a hidden fee, but would go to “good things”, such as helping the youth of the suburbs. Which? Secretly.
Hope it’s not over
Sure, he knows gang criminals, but that’s a natural consequence of growing up in Angered and the environments he moves in, and their sins shouldn’t spill over onto him. Masireh also points out that he is unpunished and that none of the young players who were allegedly bribed with bundles of bills and luxury watches have come forward and told about it. Thus, he sees the accusations as mean-spirited bullshit.
Niva rounds off the text with “after six years of silence, we finally ended up at a cafe table in southwest Stockholm. I have asked, Masireh Jadama has answered. What now happens in the future remains to be seen”.
Personally, I hope it is not over.
The Universal case is so multifaceted and interesting that it should lead to research and discussion for months to come. But when a revelation swells and provokes sharp reactions, it is important to return to concrete and true information, to what is lined up at the beginning of this text.
All that has happened. We have to deal with that. But how?
Quaison, too, must be allowed to speak
Universal currently has players in AIK, Häcken, Halmstad, IFK Gothenburg and Utsikten. There are rumors that they use other agencies as a kind of front, which Jadama denies, but regardless of which, the agency is a power factor in Swedish football. How do the clubs handle it? Should they put pressure on the players to change representation?
It is just as urgent that we reporters look in the mirror. The part of the sports media’s coverage that concerns transfers and starting elevens is dependent on agent sources, where it is part of the mission to weigh the truth content against the whistleblower’s agenda.
A final point is scored by Masireh Jadama himself. In the interview, he lists other club leaders who were convicted of crimes or were part of criminal gangs, but who were still allowed to continue. Have clubs been too soft there? Has the media been too lax?
I don’t have straight answers.
But if the debate is to be held, we journalists must be able to map the leaders’ and intermediaries’ criminal connections, just as Dagens ETC and Fotboll Sthlm have done exemplary in this case. And in one way or another, those singled out must also be allowed to give their version, even if their names are Robin Quaison and Masireh Jadama and they are clearly trying to angle the story in their favor.
2023-11-08 23:38:15
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