A police employee has admitted stealing two gold bars and cash totalling £153,000 belonging to the force he worked for. Mujibur Ibrahim (25) took the stash of cash and gold from Leicestershire Police's archive store safe earlier this year. It was the proceeds of crime seized by the police during various criminal investigations.
The prosecution alleges the amount taken was in the region of £300,000 – but Ibrahim, of Westcotes Drive, Westcotes, Leicester, only accepts half that amount. Ibrahim pleaded guilty to theft of £40,000 - instead of an alleged £183,555 - of cash from the police's archive store, between February 23 and April 3. Leicester Crown Court heard that the money related to Operation Archer, but no information about that operation was given during the hearing.
Ibrahim also admitted theft of a quantity of cash and a gold bar from Operation Sharder, plus £5,050 and a gold bar from Operation Heel, on April 20 – which was agreed by both the prosecution and defence to have a total value of £113,000. No details about any of those three operations were given to the court.
