"Wajiha Korashi was caught between two men’s jealousy."
An Afghani woman who fled to the United States with her husband and two children will be extradited to Sweden for allegedly having her secret lover killed.
The Swedish government has been urging the US to grant the extradition of Wajiha Korashi, who is accused of murdering a man with her husband Farid Vaziri.
It is alleged that Korashi was in a secret relationship with the victim, identified as Ako Hameed Abbas.
Weeks before his death, the affair was discovered and Korashi claimed Abbas had raped her.
At the time, local police investigated her claims but Abbas was released without charge after officers saw a video of the pair having sex.
On October 30, 2024, the Sacramento federal court ruled that there was enough evidence for Sweden to reasonably charge Korashi with murder.
She will be turned over to Swedish authorities and be deported at a later date.
Abbas told his brother that he and Korashi had been having an affair for six months.
Korashi was arrested in May 2024 in California. She had been living among Afghan refugees.
It is unclear when she first arrived in the United States. She fled Afghanistan and started a new life in Sweden in 2020.
Officials believe she and her husband may have entered the US using false identification documents.
Vaziri has not been arrested and his whereabouts is unknown. He remains on Europol’s ‘most wanted fugitives’ list.
According to the list, Vaziri is wanted for murder and grievous bodily harm. The 24-year-old is considered “dangerous”.
Korashi’s federal public defender Mia Crager said:
“She did not plan or execute any murder.
“Wajiha Korashi was caught between two men’s jealousy.”
On March 11, Swedish police discovered a body wrapped in plastic bags and stuffed inside a duffel bag in the woods near Stockholm.
The victim’s throat had been slit and his body was covered in bruises. Abbas was later identified as the victim.
Abbas was reported missing three days earlier after telling his brother that he was meeting with Korashi and Vaziri on March 7.
When relatives had not heard from him by March 8, they called authorities.
Police attended the couple’s home, aware that they had dismissed a rape allegation from Korashi weeks earlier.
Prosecutors say Korashi had asked an old classmate for “rohypnol, GHB, ketamine” or any drug which could be slipped into a drink to make someone unconscious. The classmate did not give her any drugs.
According to court documents, the victim voiced concerns that something would “happen to him” during the meeting with Korashi and Vaziri.
A witness identified as ‘Brother 1′, who was at the apartment when the meeting took place allegedly told Swedish authorities that he was “asked to take the children to another room in the apartment because the adults needed to speak with [the] victim”.
The document states: “Brother 1 did so, and when he later heard a commotion and came out to investigate, he saw Victim 1 lying on the floor with blood around his head.”
Three people, one being Korashi, were allegedly “moving around the body acting nervously”. The witness said he then left the apartment.
Mobile phone data allegedly revealed Korashi’s phone was used for 30 minutes near the woods where the body was found.
The day before discovering Abbas’ body, police allegedly attended Korashi’s apartment, where they found the door had been left unlocked.
The court filing read: “It appeared that its occupants had left suddenly.”
It had been cleaned but there were traces of blood on the living room sofa and in the bathroom.
Fibres from the victim’s trousers were found on the carpet of the abandoned apartment.
According to Swedish prosecutor Cecilia Tepper, the murder had elements of an honour killing.
But this has raised further questions.
Sahar Razavi, director of the Iranian and Middle Eastern Studies Centre at Sacramento State, said:
“In the case of rape then it would be the man violating the family’s honour.”
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