Moonee Ponds: Owner of anti-ageing clinic charged after police allegedly found steroids and human growth hormones – as 17 luxury cars are seized from a nearby factory

The owner of a well-known anti-aging clinic has been charged following an investigation into an alleged steroid trafficking scheme when police seized $950,000 in cash and 17 luxury cars worth millions of dollars from a nearby factory.

The Melbourne anti-aging and sports medicine clinic in Moonee Ponds, in Melbourne’s northwest, was raided by officers on Thursday.

Police allegedly discovered a large quantity of illegal prescription drugs, including steroids and human growth hormones, inside the clinic.

The raid followed a five-month investigation in which detectives soon arrested the business’s alleged owner, Robin James Taylor, 54, at a factory in Somerton, in Melbourne’s north.

Police searched the factory and seized around $950,000 in cash from a safe and a gold Louis Vuitton table and chair with an estimated value of $250,000.

Officers were seen towing 17 luxury cars from the factory, including two Lamborghinis, a Porsche, a Corvette and a Mercedes-AMG.

They also seized six Holden Toranas, including a VK SS Peter Brock valued at $1 million.

Officers alleged that the cars, which had a combined value of about $4 million, were the product of Taylor’s business dealings.

Detective Sergeant Raj Tillekeratne said there were up to 50 luxury cars parked at the Somerton factory, which was surrounded by an electric fence.

The senior sergeant said most of the illegal drugs allegedly found at the clinic were associated with bodybuilding and aging.

“The business model that we believe these organized crime figures have used is to sell prescription drugs without having the proper licenses in order to get rich,” he told Herald of the sun.

Police also searched a house in Yarrambat, in Melbourne’s northeast.

Police charged Taylor with several offences, including trafficking in a commercial quantity of prescription drugs, trafficking in a commercial quantity of steroid agents and trafficking in testosterone.

He appeared at Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday, where he was refused bail after his lawyer failed to prove he was in exceptional circumstances.

Prosecutors alleged Taylor sold drugs, including steroids, without medical qualifications at the premises and used a blank prescription book already signed by a NSW doctor to deliver drugs to customers.

Taylor is due in court on June 21.