Flying Kangaroo drugs: Robert Olczyc jailed for elaborate MDMA import and manufacture scheme
Drug dealers based in Moorabbin manufactured and sold through their own website ecstasy stamped with a distinctive Qantas-style logo — until the whole enterprise came crashing down.
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An elaborate drug trafficking enterprise processing imported MDMA into ecstasy pills stamped with the Qantas logo has been smashed by federal police.
The criminal set-up known as “Flying Kangaroo” even had its own site on the dark web allowing drug users to buy direct-mail ecstasy.
Court documents show Flying Kangaroo hierarchy imported multiple small packages of MDMA powder from Germany to post office boxes scattered across Australia.
Robert Olczyc — the organisation’s main Melbourne man until his arrest in late-2016 — was in charge of manufacturing and distribution in Victoria.
He would receive orders for ecstasy then use false ID to mail the drugs to customers.
Olczyc operated a clandestine laboratory at his Gwenda Ave home in Moorabbin and two pill presses at a Keys Rd factory, also in Moorabbin.
He sold some of the drugs to undercover police.
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Australian Federal Police raided both premises on November 23, 2016 following a lengthy covert operation.
Investigators seized 200 ecstasy tablets, $15,000 and drug making equipment, and more than 300 grams of pure MDMA was discovered inside DVD cases in a safe at the Keys Rd factory.
Olczyc refused police access to any of his devices including a mobile phone and laptop.
The 35-year-old was sentenced in the County Court on October 7 to a minimum four years and ten months’ prison after pleading guilty to several drug charges for importing, trafficking and manufacturing MDMA.
Judge Michael Tinney said Olczyc was “up to (his) neck in serious criminality”.
“You were a high level trusted player here,” he said.
“Financial gain is the obvious motivation here. This was a highly complicated scheme and deliberately so to reduce the risk of apprehension.”
The AFP investigation deepened after Western Australian Flying Kangaroo “state manager” Jake Wood was arrested in 2015.
Judge Tinney said Olczyc held a similar role to Wood in the operation.
“You were not the architect of the scheme but you knew of it, your acts were undercover of that structure and there were many acts,” he said.
Wood was sentenced in the Western Australian Supreme court in 2016 to six years and six months’ prison with a non-parole period of four years.
Olczyc, who was given a maximum nine years and eight month’s prison, had spent 1048 days in custody at the time of sentencing.