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. While he was not paid a share of the cash seized, he was ‘rewarded for his conduct’, the court heard. Shah admitted conspiracy to supply a class A drug and conspiracy to acquire criminal property.

Source: Daily Mail May 12, 2021 23:20 UTC