By Ashley Young And Victoria Mckeown –
A corrupt cop has been jailed for passing on sensitive and confidential intelligence used by an organised crime group has been sacked by the force, three months after he was put behind bars.
Mohammed Malik, 37, was jailed for 28 months in June after he admitted three counts of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office. He was sacked by the force following the detection of his corruption.
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The Crown Prosecutor Service (CPS) successfully showed that there was a clear transactional relationship between Malik and Anis. The evidence demonstrated low of information from Malik to Anis, with Malik having an expectation of money flowing in the opposite direction.
The story is particularly poignant in light of the cruel murder of Sarah Everard by evil cop, Wayne Couzens.
A court heard Malik, from Rochdale, passed on intelligence he took from Greater Manchester Police’s computer system to a third party in exchange for money.
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Jurors heard how the third party, a friend of Malik’s by the name of Mohammed Anis, from Bury, helped provide cars to ‘serious and organised crime groups’, Liverpool Crown Court was told.
Malik, the court heard, searched GMP’s intelligence database to find out if police officers were monitoring cars being used by the criminals – and for information known to police about Anis and his associates.
A ‘special case misconduct hearing’ was held at GMP headquarters on Friday in front of the force’s Chief Constable, Stephen Watson.
Jurors heard that Malik ‘conspired with a third party while acting as a police constable to willfully misconduct himself by accessing GMP’s computer system’, it was said at the hearing.
Jurors also heard that his admission of guilt was capable of ‘causing harm to the public’s confidence in policing’.
Malik, the court heard, had visited Anis in January 2017, following a tragic crash in Saudi Arabia where Anis lost a number of members of his family, including his young child.
Over the course of the next several months, they embarked on an ‘unhealthy relationship’ where Anis would ask Malik to search for both people and cars on GMP’s internal systems, it was said.
The information related to vehicles, some of which were involved in serious and organised crime. There were direct links between some of these vehicles and criminals. Malik also used the police computer system to perform multiple searches on a database that related to information held by the police about Anis and other individuals.
Anis sent a picture of a car through Snapchat and asked Malik to add the car to the police intelligence system, which Malik did the next day – suggesting the vehicle should be stopped as it was suspected of drug dealing.
Anis also asked Malik to provide information about a red Seat Leon that was recovered by the police with a bullet hole in the bumper. Police visited the car owner’s address and left a handwritten note for him. An image of this note was recovered from Anis’s phone.
Screenshots from WhatsApp conversations were used in court to prove Malik was helping Anis evade the police by suggesting that he stopped doing “business” and change the cars he was driving so police would not stop him.
Prosecutor, Jamie Hamilton told jurors that Anis ‘was involved, with others, in the provision of vehicles to organised crime groups’.
Anis would then pay hundred of pounds to Malik for providing the results on a monthly basis, with investigators finding up to £600-worth of payments in bank transfers, with potentially more in cash that could never be traced, heard the court.
Malik, the GMP hearing was told, was aware of the proceedings, but wasn’t present.
The Chief Constable said: “Mr Malik has admitted the breaches against him and accepts that his behaviour amounts to gross misconduct.
“I am satisfied that Mr Malik’s breaches do amount to misconduct.”
Ben Southam, a CPS Senior Specialist Prosecutor in the Special Crime Division, said: “Mohammed Malik took advantage of his position of power and accepted money in return for helping Mohammed Anis. We gathered concrete evidence, including incriminating WhatsApp and Snapchat messages, leaving little option for PC Malik other than to admit his guilt. The jury also accepted that evidence in convicting Anis.
“This level of corruption is abhorrent, and I am pleased that the CPS and Greater Manchester Police were able to
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