Ali Dizaei Jailed

[Lov3ll]

Ali Dizaei found guilty of misconduct after framing businessman
Ali Dizaei, one of Britain’s most senior police officers, has been jailed for four years for framing an innocent businessman for assault to settle personal score.
By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent
Published: 1:01PM GMT 08 Feb 2010

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Ali Dizaei: Dizaei faked injuries to back up his claims, and engaged in a campaign to smear Mr Al-Baghdadi by claiming he had been caught using stolen credit cards. Photo: PA

The Metropolitan Police commander engaged in a “wholesale abuse of power for personal motives” after he rowed with website developer Waad Al-Baghdadi, 24.
Dizaei owed the victim £600 for a personal website he had designed for him.
When Mr Al-Baghdadi asked the police chief for payment outside a West London restaurant, Dizaei pursued him down an alley in his car before violently arresting him and telling him "I am responsible for 5,000 officers. I can ---- your life".
Dizaei later claimed that the victim had attacked him with a sharp metal mouthpiece for a 'shisha' pipe.
Dizaei faked injuries to back up his claims, and engaged in a campaign to smear Mr Al-Baghdadi by claiming he had been caught using stolen credit cards.
The innocent businessman spent nearly 24 hours in a cell and was the subject of a full police investigation before the case was dropped by prosecution lawyers.
After a month-long trial at Southwark Crown Court the jury took two hours to unanimously convict Dizaei of misconduct in a public office and attempting to pervert the course of justice, following an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).

Source (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/7136172/Ali-Dizaei-found-guilty-of-misconduct-after-framing-businessman.html)
Timeline (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/7136169/Ali-Dizaei-timeline.html)

[JJHH]

What is this guy's other nationality?

[mdlmrk]

What is this guy's other nationality?

he is a Iranian..

[Lazy Lob]

What a fvcking tw@t.

[Mr Gently Benevolent]

Ali had it coming that there is no doubt he was a corrupt and bent cop hiding behind race an opinion shared also by NBPA, but I wonder how much of the past crap was his doing and what else was done by the hand of others. OP Helios cost £4 million and involved 50 officers (the single biggest operation against a single officer) and the end result was Dizaei hauled up for fake mileage claims a case which was later dropped.

[oldsoak]

Glad he got sent down. What a great example to hold up - NOT.
IMVHO He only got pinged because the chap Waad Al-Baghdadi was non white and therefore the case was easy to bring without charge of racism.
He got his post through a desperate need for the establishment to get tanned faces in senior positions based on ethnic makeup and not on ability.
A very good example of what happens when merit is ignored for political correctness.
I'd like the Dorset police who previously investigated this chap and found nowt to explain how they found nowt.

[Lazy Lob]

Glad he got sent down. What a great example to hold up - NOT.
IMVHO He only got pinged because the chap Waad Al-Baghdadi was non white and therefore the case was easy to bring without charge of racism.
He got his post through a desperate need for the establishment to get tanned faces in senior positions based on ethnic makeup and not on ability.
A very good example of what happens when merit is ignored for political correctness.
I'd like the Dorset police who previously investigated this chap and found nowt to explain how they found nowt.

Now feck orf, you is making too much sense.

[nemowork]

Is it wrong to laugh at the misfortune of others woot

Although its worrying he was confident enough to fake charges of assaulting a Police officer and ruin a mans life over a simple £600 debt and do it so blatantly in public, can i take it that he's been under extra scrutiny recently over all that expenses fraud that he absolutely, definitely and positively didn't do and didn't have the cash?

Will it be safe to bet he does the next four years in solitary? Stuck in a small room with nobody to talk to but himself and his sparkling personality, i think i've just found the perfect definition of hell :D