Kashif Mahmood
A former Metropolitan Police officer who seized at least £850,000 in “criminal cash” under the pretence of doing his job has been jailed for eight years.
Kashif Mahmood, 32, of Woodcroft, in Harlow, Essex, dressed in his uniform and used marked and unmarked police cars to travel to locations where an organised gang knew “significant quantities of criminal cash” would be exchanged, and took it himself while pretending to be doing his duties.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) called Mahmood “audacious, corrupt and criminal”.
Director of major investigations Steve Noonan said: “His actions were a complete betrayal of public trust and confidence, and have no place in policing.”
By Lewis Berrill @LewisBerrill Chief reporter - east London and west Essex
Southwark Crown Court. Photo: Google Maps A serving Metropolitan Police officer seized at least £850,000 in “criminal cash” under the pretence of doing his job, a court has heard. Kashif Mahmood, a Harlow resident, was “at the heart” of a “highly lucrative organised crime group”, Southwark Crown Court was told on Wednesday. The court heard the 32-year-old dressed in his uniform and used marked and unmarked police vehicles to travel to locations where he knew “significant quantities of criminal cash” would be exchanged. He attempted to seize the cash under the pretence of the “lawful exercise of his powers”, and was assisted twice by co-defendant Ioan Gherghel, who pretended to be a fellow officer.
Corrupt copper helped crime gang nick £850k by confiscating cash handovers from rivals
Former Met Police officer, Kashif Mahmood, who would turn up to cash handovers in uniform to seize funds from a rival gang has been sentenced to eight years in prison
Former Metropolitan Police officer Kashif Mahmood jailed for eight years. (Image: PA)
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A corrupt police officer helped an organised crime gang steal from their rivals in a Line of Duty-style multimillion-pound plot, a court heard.
Kashif Mahmood, 31, used his police car to stop vehicles he knew were carrying drug cash after being tipped off by the group.
Accompanied on two occasions by Romanian bodybuilder Ioan Gherghel, 34, who posed as his police partner, they would confiscate the money.
Mahmood, a Metropolitan Police constable, regularly jetted to Dubai and bought designer watches.
The force’s anti-corruption unit began investigating him last year after French authorities infiltrated an encrypted phone network used by the gang, Southwark Crown Court heard.