The exact fraud happening by Somalia immigrants in America also occurred by Somali immigrants in Sweden
A UN investigation found
- 70% of food aid stolen
- Ghost beneficiaries
- $100 million stolen
- Fake NGOs created to siphon funds
- Fake signatures, fake invoices, fake food, real money
- Fake families and fake children“
This isn't just an American story. Did you know the same thing happened in Sweden?
Somali-born MPs and community leaders there were caught in a scheme siphoning over $100 million from schools, welfare and public programs.
In Minnesota, prosecutors say 250 million meant to feed hungry American children were stolen the largest welfare fraud in US history. Same pattern, same community networks, same playbook and everyone insists these are isolated incidents.
So how do two countries 4,000 miles apart end up with nearly identical fraud networks led by people from the exact same place?—
A UN investigation found diversion in all 55 displacement camps surveyed. Multiple reports documented up to 70% of food aid stolen or diverted. Investigations from 2010 to 2023 repeatedly showed aid convoys hijacked, taxed or resold, ghost beneficiaries, fake NGOs created to siphon funds.
Money doesn't flow through ministries, it flows through clans. Loyalty networks are greater than governance. And clan leaders control distribution lists, ghost beneficiaries and paperwork — Billions move outside Western oversight. This is Somalia's operating system.
Survival economics built on exploitation, ghost paperwork, intimidation and aid theft. Now drop that system into Western welfare states built on trust, self-reporting and paperwork and it scales. —
Minnesota's scandal wasn't a mistake, it was a blueprint.
Sweden's wasn't random. Same methods, different country, bigger budgets. Here's the uncomfortable truth. Minnesota looks identical to old UN scandals in Somalia. Ghost children, ghost beneficiaries, fake signatures, fake invoices, fake food, real money.
Only difference? In Somalia, the money came from aid. In Minnesota and Sweden, it comes from taxpayers.
When a survival economy built on aid theft enters welfare systems, fraud isn't accidental, it's predictable. Ilhan Omar won't tell you this because it collapses her narrative.
These aren't isolated scandals, they're warnings. Failed states don't stay contained. Their corruption systems travel. And if the West keeps treating this conversation as taboo, the losses won't stop at $250 million. The stakes are far bigger than most are willing to admit.”