Police in Victoria have seized 17 luxury cars worth a combined $4 million which they allege were the proceeds of steroid and other drug trafficking.
Officers raided a business in the inner Melbourne suburb of Monee Ponds yesterday morning, where they found “a significant amount of illegal prescription medication including steroids and human growth hormones”, according to Victoria Police.
Around the same time, police arrested the alleged owner of that business at a factory in Somerton, in the city’s north.
It was at that factory that they found $950,000 in cash as well as the 17 cars, which included two Lamborghinis and one each of a Porsche, Corvette and Mercedes AMG.
The haul also included six Holdens, including a VK SS Peter Brock valued at $1 million.
Police allege the cars were the proceeds of crime.
The business owner, a 54-year-old man from Yarrambat, in Melbourne’s outer north, was charged with a range of drug trafficking offences.
They are: trafficking a commercial quantity of prescription drugs, trafficking a commercial quantity of anabolic and androgenic steroidal agents, trafficking drugs, trafficking testosterone, and trafficking anabolic steroids.
He was also charged with dealing with property suspected of being the proceeds of crime.
He will appear in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court today.
