Customs seize steroids

October 05, 2006

CUSTOMS officers have seized a large quantity of performance enhancing drugs in intercepted mail packages and in a raid on an apartment in Melbourne's Docklands precinct.

The drugs were found in three mail parcels originated from Serbia that were seized by Customs agents as they arrived in Melbourne between September 21 and September 27.

The packages contained 26 phials of nandrolone decanoate, an anabolic steroid; 120 proviron mesterolone tablets, an androgenic steroid; and 247 heart-shaped anabolic tablets, a Customs spokesman said.

The steroids were concealed in hollowed-out books in the first two packages, with tablets concealed in a plastic CD case in the third.

The packages were addressed to the same address in Docklands, the spokesman said.

Customs officers raided an apartment at Docklands on Tuesday, seizing a further 547 anabolic tablets and "evidentiary material", he said.

The investigation is continuing and it is expected charges will be laid.