Yakiboy: Hossein Balapour fined over steroids and knife

He’s the muscle-bound hunk with 300,000 Instagram followers. But now ‘Yakiboy’ has been scolded by a magistrate in court and told ‘something is going very wrong in your life’.

Balapour, pictured, was fined more than $6000 after police found a cache of steroids and a knife in his Waterloo home.

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A shredded, muscled-up influencer whose pictures left scores of women online drooling over his physique has been lashed by a magistrate after claiming the trench knife bikie cops nabbed him with was just for a modelling job.

Married father-of-one Hossein Balapour, whose Instagram alter ego YakiBoy has almost 300,000 followers, was caught with the knife and a cache of steroids at his home earlier this year by detectives under Strikeforce Raptor.

The search of his Waterloo home uncovered oxandrolone, one bottle of alprazolam, two vials of mehtenolone, one vial 10lm of trenbolone, 14 amulets of testosterone and 10 vials of somatropin.

Hossein Balapour AKA Yakiboy leaving the Downing Centre earlier this year. He was fined Picture: Richard Dobson

In the Downing Centre Local Court, Balapour sat quietly as his barrister Peter Lange told Magistrate Megan Greenwood the Instafamous gym-junkie bought the weapon from a Sydney store for a “Japanese styled photoshoot” four years ago.

Balapour had pleaded guilty to all charges earlier this year.

Magistrate Greenwood, however, was having none of it, gasping as she was handed a picture of the weapon.

Martial arts expert and model Hossein Balapour, also known as Yakiboy. Picture: Instagram

The knife police found in Balapour's home. Picture: NSW Local Court

“It looks (like a vicious weapon) to me,” she said.

“I found this to be troubling offending.

“This is terribly concerning … something is going very wrong in your life.”

Mr Lange told the court he “didn’t understand” how someone could make money as an influencer before his client was fined more than $6000 after pleading guilty to the raft of charges.

Balapour was in possession of the knife despite already being subject to a weapons prohibition order.

Balapour was subject to a weapons prohibition order when the knife was found in his home.

The court also heard Balapour, whose Instagram is littered with barely-clothed snaps alongside luxury cars, felt persecuted in his home country of Iran because of his tattoos, meaning he couldn’t pursue martial arts and instead fled to Australia in 2015.

“He has been able to turn that adversity into using his physique to engage business,” Mr Lange told the court.

Balapour was sentenced to a two year community corrections order and fined $6160 for all the offences.

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