Mohammed Beck Hadjetlaché

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Hadjetlaché

Mohammed Beck Hadjetlaché (approx. 1870 - 1929) was a Russian tsarist officer and later a terrorist, who fought with the White Guards against the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution. He was captured by the Communists, but because Hadjetlaché was a Muslim, the Bolsheviks released him as they wanted to show good will towards Russia’s minorities.

Hadjetlaché left Soviet Russia and came to Sweden in 1918, where he organized a White Terrorist cell with approx. 20 members planing to help in the counter revolutionary struggle against the Bolsheviks with Stockholm as his base. Hadjetlaché purchased a house in the woods outside of Stockholm. To that house he and his gang brought people that he accused of being Bolshevik agents who he killed and their bodies were then dropped in a nearby lake.

When the police discovered the gang in 1919, three murdered bodies were found in the lake, but according to Hadjetlaché’s own “death list” it is likely that more people had been killed. Hadjetlaché was sentenced to life time in jail by the Swedish court and he died in 1929 at Långholmen prison.