Koray Kuroz: Motivational speaker sentenced for large-scale MDMA supply
A Knox Grammar school graduate who worked as a motivational speaker has been jailed for his role in an MDMA gang. Members of his family wept in court but he has remained defiant - pledging to use his time inside to write a book and help his fellow prisoners.
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A motivational speaker who supplied large amounts of MDMA in Sydney when he was a teenager will spend at least three years in prison.
Charismatic 23-year-old Koray Kuroz was sentenced on Friday for supplying the party drug MDMA on multiple occasions during 2016, while aged 19, including in weights of 280g, 280g, 140g and 13g.
The Knox Grammar graduate from Turramurra also conspired with three co-offenders to obtain 1kg of MDMA in 2016.
A large gathering of Kuroz’s family and supporters packed into the back of a courtroom at Downing Centre District Court to witness his sentence on Friday with some breaking down in tears.
Kuroz, wearing his prison greens and a necklace, hung his head and stared at the ground for most of Judge Robert Weber’s sentencing before being sent to prison for six years with a non-parole of three years.
In recent years, Kuroz has worked as a personal development coach and motivational speaker and told the court last month that he wanted to use his time behind bars to help improve the wellbeing of other inmates.
He also posted on Facebook after being found guilty at trial that this would be “the ultimate test of mental fortitude … to be happier than ever in a f******* prison cell” and “I’ll be writing my first book in prison, I AM UNSTOPPABLE”.
Kuroz was found guilty of five serious drug offences following a judge-alone trial in July.
That included conspiracy to supply a prohibited drug (large commercial quantity), two counts of supply prohibited drug (commercial quantity), and two alternative charges of supply prohibited drug.
Kuroz had pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Judge Weber took into consideration Kuroz’s young age, good prospects of rehabilitation, and his mental health issues in handing down his sentence.
However, he slammed Kuroz’s involvement in large-scale drug supply labelling it “a pernicious activity” which harmed the community.
“He was supplying drugs as a sole trader who was working opportunistically.”
He accepted he was not part of a larger syndicate despite getting involved in and trying to obtain 1kg of MDMA with three others.
Kuroz’s three co-offenders involved in the conspiracy to obtain 1kg of MDMA included Michael Canaan, Hossein Dehgani and Alan Stewart. All three have been convicted and sentenced to terms of imprisonment for the conspiracy and other matters.