Ferrari-Driving Crook, Zahid Khan, 31, along with Brothers Jailed for 20 Years for Scam in Birmingham

Zahid Khan from Yardley Wood Road in Moseley a Ferrari-driving crook who posed as a successful businessman has been convicted of running a car number plate scam that promised to net him £500,000 before West Midlands Police wrote-off his plans.

Zahid Khan, Brothers (top) Aamir Khan (left) Ayan Ahmed (Right)
Cousin Zubair Ahmad (Bottom Left)  Associate Kaesar Ali (Bottom Right)

Zahid Khan was the high-profile ringleader of a group – including brothers Aamir Khan 25, and Ayan Ahmed, 39, plus cousin Zubair Ahmad 32, – that stole the rights to high-value personalised plates.





The family originally stood trial earlier this year but Zahid Khan, who was granted bail by a judge, skipped the country. He was found guilty in his absence and given a 10-year prison sentence.



But just days before Zahid Khan’s trial was due to conclude at Birmingham Crown Court the 31-year-old fled the country and left his family, including his own brothers, to take the rap for his crimes.



Aamir Khan, Ayan Ahmed and Zubair Ahmad – but yesterday (Dec 7) they were all found unanimously guilty of conspiracy to commit fraud.

The Khans, Ahmed and Ahmad ran their scam by fraudulently obtaining DVLA paperwork that enabled them to transfer ownership of five high-value number plates – 2K, 8G, 9H, 9J and C1 – without the owners’ knowledge.



Zahid Khan sold the 2K plate for £85,000 to an unwitting customer and was in the process of cashing in on the others having approached a specialist Black Country dealer offering 8G and 9H for sale.

They provisionally agreed a price until a salesman contacted a past customer to see if they’d be interested in buying 8G – only to be told they already owned the plate and it was adorning a car on their driveway!

Detectives discovered Khan, who also went by the alias Adam Hussain, pressured a Birmingham car dealership salesman – who he’d previously bought a vehicle from – to harvest details on drivers with valuable VRMs.

The following December, 25-year-old Aamir Khan tried selling two Audi A3s and a Range Rover Evoque on behalf of his older brother – but the auction house refused to offer him sale lots and reported their suspicions over the vehicles’ identities to police.

Their fears were confirmed when officers found all three were sporting bogus number plates and police also discovered that, in May 2016, Aamir Khan swapped another stolen Evoque at a Birmingham car yard for an Audi A8 before Zahid sold it on just two days later.



Zahid Khan could often be seen showing off on the streets of Birmingham behind the wheel of a Ferrari – but West Midlands Police discovered the Ferrari was a Category B vehicle, having previously been scrapped, and should never have been on the road.

Aamir Khan, 25, from Shutlock Lane in Moseley, was found guilty of conspiracy to commit fraud, was jailed for a total of 4 years and 6 months, plus an additional 30 months for the immigration offence.



Ayan Ahmed, 39, from Mickleton Road, Solihull,  was convicted for his part in the fraud conspiracy and jailed for 3 years.



Zubair Ahmad, 32, (Zahid's Cousin) from Springcroft Road, Tyseley was convicted for his part in the fraud conspiracy and jailed for 2 years and 8 months years.



Associate Kaesar Ali, 28 from Clarence Road, Sparkhill, who is currently serving a 10-year and 4 months jail term for causing death by dangerous driving and money laundering, was also part of the plot by Zahid Khan, received extra 6 months behind bars.



Investigating officer Det Con Piper said: Zahid Khan portrayed the image of a legitimate businessman and a multi-millionaire, but in reality he is a career criminal and a con artist.

He and his family and associates clearly thought they’d identified a scheme that could make them huge sums of money. But we uncovered the scam before he was able to cash in.



He added: “I would urge Khan to take a long hard look at himself in the mirror and reflect on what he’s done. He’s run away and left his own family to take the punishment for a criminal enterprise he orchestrated. That kind of action must be hard to live with.

“We are working with the Home Office and Interpol to trace Khan and bring him to justice. But I would also urge Zahid Khan to do the honourable thing and surrender to police, instead of letting his loved ones do the time for his crimes.”