A female officer has been sacked from the Metropolitan Police after her husband was revealed as a gangland enforcer robbing drug dealers alongside a corrupt officer.
PC Inga Gherghel, 33, became a trainee policewoman while her husband was engaged in a Line of Duty-style enterprise, using a corrupt officer to steal back money paid out by a crime family in large-scale drug deals. Gherghel, who was arrested but released with no further action, is the third Met officer dismissed in connection with the corruption scandal.
Ioan Gherghel, her Romanian husband, was jailed for working with PC Kashif Mahmood as part of an organised crime syndicate to retake hundreds of thousands of pounds’ worth of money from deals involving cocaine and heroin and the laundering of vast sums of cash.
Mahmood’s wife, PC Shareen Kashif, was convicted of money laundering offences connected to the racket. The gang were found to be taking instructions from abroad via Encrochat, an encrypted messaging service.
A misconduct panel said that PC Gherghel, who was not involved in the robberies, was not a credible witness after she claimed to have no knowledge of a men’s Met-issue stab vest and £10,000 in cash stashed in a shoebox in plain sight at the small flat in east London she shared with her husband.
The panel heard that her husband, who has never taken any police training, had worn the vest as a “pseudo- police uniform” to pose as a police officer on at least three occasions and said that it was “inconceivable” that PC Gherghel would not have seen the large stab vest, which had a serial number belonging to a PCSO, in the cupboard.
Dismissing PC Gherghel, Evis Samupfonda, the chairwoman of the panel, said: “To retain PC Gherghel as a serving officer would seriously undermine the trust and confidence that the public has in the police” and criticised her for giving “inconsistent evidence”.
Gherghel had told the panel that her husband was controlling and said that their relationship was over because he had joined dating apps while they were together.
Commander Marcus Barnett, in charge of policing at the Central East Command Unit, said: “It is the duty of any police officer to report criminality to police and PC Gherghel turned a blind eye to the actions of her husband.”
*John Simpson, Crime Correspondent, July 1 2022, The Times*
> arrested but released with no further action, is the third Met officer dismissed in connection with the corruption scandal.
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A female officer has been sacked from the Metropolitan Police after her husband was revealed as a gangland enforcer robbing drug dealers alongside a corrupt officer.
PC Inga Gherghel, 33, became a trainee policewoman while her husband was engaged in a Line of Duty-style enterprise, using a corrupt officer to steal back money paid out by a crime family in large-scale drug deals. Gherghel, who was arrested but released with no further action, is the third Met officer dismissed in connection with the corruption scandal.
Ioan Gherghel, her Romanian husband, was jailed for working with PC Kashif Mahmood as part of an organised crime syndicate to retake hundreds of thousands of pounds’ worth of money from deals involving cocaine and heroin and the laundering of vast sums of cash.
Mahmood’s wife, PC Shareen Kashif, was convicted of money laundering offences connected to the racket. The gang were found to be taking instructions from abroad via Encrochat, an encrypted messaging service.
A misconduct panel said that PC Gherghel, who was not involved in the robberies, was not a credible witness after she claimed to have no knowledge of a men’s Met-issue stab vest and £10,000 in cash stashed in a shoebox in plain sight at the small flat in east London she shared with her husband.
The panel heard that her husband, who has never taken any police training, had worn the vest as a “pseudo- police uniform” to pose as a police officer on at least three occasions and said that it was “inconceivable” that PC Gherghel would not have seen the large stab vest, which had a serial number belonging to a PCSO, in the cupboard.
Dismissing PC Gherghel, Evis Samupfonda, the chairwoman of the panel, said: “To retain PC Gherghel as a serving officer would seriously undermine the trust and confidence that the public has in the police” and criticised her for giving “inconsistent evidence”.
Gherghel had told the panel that her husband was controlling and said that their relationship was over because he had joined dating apps while they were together.
Commander Marcus Barnett, in charge of policing at the Central East Command Unit, said: “It is the duty of any police officer to report criminality to police and PC Gherghel turned a blind eye to the actions of her husband.”
*John Simpson, Crime Correspondent, July 1 2022, The Times*
> arrested but released with no further action, is the third Met officer dismissed in connection with the corruption scandal.
Well that’ll learn ‘em.