Police officer Osman Iqbal was jailed after he was exposed him as being at the centre of an organised crime group which ran brothels in exclusive areas of London 
 
 A police officer who led a secret double life as the boss of an organised crime gang was caught out by his own force bosses - after driving into work in a £170,000 Ferrari. The Counter Corruption Unit began looking into Iqbal’s financial affairs after he arrived at work in a Ferrari in 2012 while working at Kings Heath police station with a team responding to 999 calls. Iqbal was jailed for seven years and two months in September for his part in running a sex and drugs racket said to be worth more than £1 million. The Serious and Organised Crime Unit were already investigating his cousin, 33 year-old convicted armed robber Talib Hussain, who also seemed to have access to a fleet of flashy vehicles. It was through him that he had access to a fleet of high end vehicles and both men and the cars were connected to to two fake businesses - City Chauffeurs Ltd and Capital Event Management. When they were seen driving around in their supercars it didn't take us long to piece together exactly what they were up to Ch Insp Martin Brennan 
 
 Officers discovered Iqbal, from Ward End, had bank accounts for two non-existent businesses that were being used to launder "hundreds of thousands of pounds" from brothels in the Covent Garden and Marylebone areas of London. Officers then began looking into where the money was coming from and discovered that it was being transferred from transactions made on chip and PIN machines in London. These payments were traced back to buildings in Covent Garden and Marylebone, which were then put under surveillance in a joint operation with the Metropolitan Police. Iqbal and Hussain and their associates Atif Hussain and Asri Hussain were involved in an elaborate scheme whereby they organised for clients to be picked up from strip bars where they would be offered drugs and women and driven back to one of the brothels. His own workmates raised suspicions when Iqbal arrived for work in the £170,000 Ferrari 458 supercar and an anti-corruption team began probing his bank accounts 
 
 On September 19 2014 he was sentenced to seven years, two months after admitting conspiracy to manage a brothel, conspiracy to possess Class A drugs with intent to supply and conspiracy to money launder. More recently the force discovered that he had been asked by Nahiem Ajmal, a Birmingham religious leader, to get information from police computer systems on behalf of his friend Sajad Khan. Although due to safeguarding in place he was unable to access the police log he was charged with five counts of misconduct in a public office and pleaded guilty to three counts at an earlier hearing. Iqbal, 37, whose crimes can only now be reported in full for the first time, was in court again on Wednesday, when he admitted three misconduct offences. Osman Iqbal, aged 37, pleaded guilty to three unrelated counts of misconduct in a public office after he made unauthorised attempts to access police systems while working in Birmingham. Nahiem Ajmal, aged 35 from Bucklands Lane, Hodge Hill had denied the offence of misconduct in a public office, but was found guilty. Chief Inspector Martin Brennan, from West Midlands Police's Serious and Organised Crime Unit, said the cars and greed gave the men away. Chief Inspector Martin Brennan, from West Midlands Police’s Serious and Organised Crime Unit, said: “This was a highly-organised and well-orchestrated criminal network but what makes it particularly reprehensible is that fact a serving police officer was at the centre of it all. 'Iqbal and his associates generated their income by running 'exclusive' brothels and peddling Class A drugs. 'For them, it was all about the money and the fast cars and they didn't care who they were exploiting and what laws they were breaking in the process. Cousin Asri, 25, was also jailed for three years – consecutive to a ten-year sentence he received for conspiracy to commit robberies 
 
 'Their greed was their downfall and when they were seen driving around in their supercars it didn't take us long to piece together exactly what they were up to and take action. We constantly target networks like this and it doesn’t matter who’s involved, we will seek to use the full weight of the law against them.” 
 
 Inspector Tracey McGrath, from the Counter Corruption Unit, said: “The vast majority of West Midlands Police officers and staff are honest, hard-working people who are dedicated to upholding the law and passionate, committed and proud of the work they do.
– Police officer Osman Iqbal of Birmingham, England, had lucrative sidelines in drugs, prostitution, and money laundering—and he might have gotten away with it for longer if he hadn't started driving a $250,000 Ferrari to his day job. After the officer, who made roughly $60,000 a year, according to the Daily Mail, starting driving the supercar to the police station where he was based, colleagues became suspicious. Anti-corruption investigators discovered the 37-year-old sergeant had been making hundreds of thousands of dollars from brothels located in two parts of London, the BBC reports. The Birmingham Mail reports on how Iqbal and his partners operated: Drugs and sex were offered to men outside strip clubs; those who were interested were then taken via car to a brothel, where their credit cards were overcharged. "Their greed was their downfall, and when they were seen driving around in their supercars, it didn't take us long to piece together exactly what they were up to and take action," a police spokesman says of Iqbal and his associates. Iqbal was sentenced to seven years in prison in September, but reporting restrictions on the case were only lifted this week after he was found guilty on unrelated charges of making unauthorized attempts to access police intelligence systems on behalf of a local religious leader. Police say they're going to try to seize the assets Iqbal gained through criminal activity, as well as his police pension. (In another corruption case, a Porsche-driving Apple exec was jailed and fined $4.5 million last month.)