Gold Coast mortgage broker George Boulos is accused of selling cocaine and methylamphetamine to women and prostitutes in exchange for sexual favours according to the Supreme Court in Brisbane.
The businessman, who was drug trafficking from his own office located in Southport, over six months back in 2016, was unaware police had bugged his Southport office with cameras and microphones.
Mr Boulos, 46, whose ‘shenanigans’ caused him severe financial damage, was handed a head sentence of five years’ jail after pleading guilty to eight drug-related charges, including supplying, producing, trafficking and possessing. He also pleaded guilty to possessing a weapon.
The Greek Australian would retrieve cocaine, meth and alprazolam from his ceiling and prepare them for his customers in the office kitchen with a coffee grinder and clip seal bags.
Acting Justice Anthony Rafter said he supplied the drugs 160 times to about 15 customers who would at times snort cocaine while at the premises.
On October 19, 2016, police executed a search warrant at the premises, locating cash, a taser, various mobile phones and drug-related items like a coffee grinder and clip seal bags.
Meanwhile, Mr Boulos’ defence lawyer Craig Eberhardt, claimed that his client had performed well while on bail for the last four years and had undertaken significant rehabilitation.
The barrister told the court that Mr Boulos did not even make a profit from the drug trade, at times selling the drugs for little more than what it cost to make them stressing that his client is “otherwise a very worthwhile and contributing member to the community”.
Justice Rafter, dismissed the defence’s claims, telling Mr Boulos that “You had the financial means to satisfy your own cocaine addiction without resorting to selling cocaine”.
“You did not need to resort to selling cocaine in order to satisfy your own habit.”