As six former drug squad officers are scheduled to go on trial next month in what's being described as the biggest police corruption investigation in the city's history, Â鶹´«Ã½ has uncovered startling information in connection with one of the accused.
Six veteran police officers with the Central Field Command drug squad are facing 40 criminal charges as a result of the RCMP-led investigation.
One of those officers, Const. Ned Maodus, 44, has been convicted of soliciting sex from a prostitute and breaching a bail order.
In a separate criminal proceeding on Wednesday, a judge found that he propositioned an undercover female officer posing as a prostitute on Jarvis Street, north of Carlton, two years ago.
Maodus was out on bail at the time in the midst of a preliminary hearing on the corruption charges.
He is currently serving two years of house arrest and a two-year house arrest sentence for a separate assault conviction last year. He has been suspended without pay.
The charges facing the six officers include perjury, theft, extortion, assault causing bodily harm, and obstruction of justice.
None of the accusations have been proven in court.
Gary Clewley, a lawyer for the Toronto Police Association, has called the lawsuits nothing but a tool used by criminals to cast suspicion on police officers who are doing their jobs well.
With a report from CTV's Chris Eby
