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.
Osman Iqbal, 37, earned around £40,000 a year as a sergeant for West Midlands Police responding to 999 calls in Kings Heath, Birmingham.
But unbeknown to his colleagues he had links to a string of brothels and peddled class A drugs in exclusive areas of London.
Iqbal is now serving a jail sentence of seven years and two months after being imprisoned last September with seven other gang members.
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.
A court last September heard how Iqbal was caught when the Serious and Organised Crime Unit linked him with convicted armed robber Talib Hussain, 33.
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.
The bank accounts of the companies were being used by the pair to launder hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Police discovered the money was coming from chip and PIN machines in Covent Garden and Marylebone in London.
Two properties were put under surveillance in a joint operation with the Metropolitan Police and they were identified as brothels.
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.
Once there they were overcharged on their bank cards - but failed to report the crimes because of the shame of how they had duped.
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.
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