Developer Steve Seabrook to stand trial over Main Beach syndicate

A GOLD Coast property developer has been committed to stand trial on 100s of charges related to an alleged ice and cocaine syndicate.

Steve Seabrook (left) and Shaun Loader pictured together.

A GOLD Coast property developer has been committed to stand trial on 100s of charges related to an alleged ice and cocaine racket.

Steve Seabrook, 55, is facing about 300 charges including supply and possession of dangerous drugs, as well as possession of property suspected of being the proceeds of an offence.

Seabrook was charged by the Crime and Corruption Commission as part of an investigation dubbed Operation Altana in February.
Mortgage broker George Boulos, 41, and security systems expert Shaun Loader, 46 were also charged in relation to the alleged drug syndicate.

In February, the CCC revealed it laid more than 650 charges against several men who they alleged were “major players” in a distribution network with alleged links to the Hells Angels Outlaw Motorcycle Gang on the Gold Coast.

The CCC also allege an ice production site was identified on Main Beach restaurant and cafe strip Tedder Ave, where the dangerous drug was cut, recrystallised and packaged for distribution.

Seabrook was committed to stand trial in the Southport District Court at a date yet to be determined on charges including fraud and drug possession.
He was committed to stand trial in the Brisbane Supreme Court on several charges including 196 counts of supplying dangerous drugs, trafficking and permitting the use of a place.

Seabrook, listed online as the managing director of a property acquisition and development company called Linear Developments Pty Ltd, had previously been described as a regular on the Gold Coast social scene.

Loader, from Main Beach, faces 26 charges, including trafficking a dangerous drug.

Boulos faces 244 drug-related offences including trafficking and supply.

The CCC have previously said covert investigations — which started in 2013 — supported by “coercive hearings”, identified syndicates with multiple, overlapping lines of drug supply into Queensland from NSW.

Both Seabrook’s trials are to be listed at a date to be determined.