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A disgraced former West Midlands Police officer jailed for running a brothel has now been convicted of illegally trying to use force intelligence to help his friends.

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.

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 former PC now faces a further sentence for the latest offences.

West Midlands Police said that Iqbal was asked to get information from the force by religious leader Nahiem Ajmal, on behalf of his friend Sajad Khan.

Iqbal was rumbled by the Counter Corruption Unit who were already investigating him for criminal matters and was unable to access the log.

Nahiem Ajmal, aged 35 from Bucklands Lane, Hodge Hill had denied the offence of misconduct in a public office, but was found guilty.

Sajad Khan, aged 35 from Lodge Road, Hockley was also found guilty of the same offence and both will be sentenced on 9 February.

Iqbal was originally jailed for unrelated offences, including conspiracy to manage a brothel, conspiracy to money launder and conspiracy to possess Class A drugs.

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.

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.

Inquiries connected their cars to two apparently legitimate businesses – City Chauffeurs Ltd and Capital Event Management.

It later emerged the companies were fakes and that the false bank accounts were being used by the pair to launder hundreds of thousands of pounds.

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.

It emerged the properties being used as brothels and detectives established that Hussain and Iqbal, along with their associates, were arranging for potential clients to be picked up outside strip bars.

Men would be offered drugs and women and then driven back to one of the brothels, where they paid by card and were overcharged.

In the early hours of 14 September 2012, police carried out a series of simultaneous raids at the brothels and home addresses of those suspected to have been involved in the setup.

The Met Police helicopter watched from above as another of Iqbal’s associates, Asri Hussain, tried to get away from officers, jumping onto the roof of the building and throwing away a quantity of cocaine in the process.

He was arrested a short time later along with ten other people, all of whom were subsequently charged in April 2013.

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.

“Their greed was their downfall and when they were seen driving around in their super-cars 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.

“But occasionally there are people who disgracefully betray the public and even their own colleagues by exploiting their status for their own gain. Let me reassure people, that my counter corruption team are on to people like Iqbal and there’s nowhere for them to hide.

“Where officers and staff fall short of the standards we expect, we will always take action. In this case we’ll be looking to seize all the assets Iqbal acquired as a result of his criminal activity and his police pension too.”