Police drop 75 charges against biochemist Shane Charter

Drug trafficking charges have been dropped against Shane Charter following a raid of his Fitzroy clinic, with the biochemist now threatening civil action.

Shane Charter with underworld hit survivor and client Sam “The Punisher" Abdulrahim.

Drug trafficking charges against Essendon supplements scandal figure Shane Charter have been dropped.

Charter has hit out after the withdrawal of all but three of 78 matters laid against him following a high-profile 2022 raid of his Fitzroy clinic by Victoria Police organised crime detectives.

Court records show the charges which remain are that he refused to give police a pass code for his mobile phone and that he possessed testosterone and a schedule four poison.

The phone charge resulted in a $2500 fine, which Charter has subsequently paid.

Police said at the time that the operation centred on Nicholson St was part of an investigation into drug trafficking linked to outlaw motorcycle gangs.

Police have withdrawn all but three of 78 charges laid against him following the 2022 raid.

But the biochemist said he had been made a target because of his treatment of prominent Melbourne underworld figures.

Over the years they have included the likes of boxer Sam “The Punisher” Abdulrahim and former senior Mongol bikie Toby Mitchell.

Abdulrahim has returned to the fight game after being treated by Charter in the aftermath of a near-fatal shooting ambush at Fawkner Cemetery in June, 2022.

Charter said he would be fighting for costs and was considering civil action over what had happened at the Fitzroy clinic.

He said he had warned detectives on the day that the case against him would go nowhere because he was doing nothing wrong.

“I said, ‘what are you guys doing? This is a legitimate business’,” Charter said.

He said he refused to let investigators into his phone because it contained private information about his patients.

Computers, patient files and medications were seized on the day of the raid.

The Australian Taxation Office hit Charter with a $2 million bill on the same day but their pursuit of that money had been discontinued.

Charter has run Dr Ageless clinics in Melbourne for years.

He came to public prominence during the Essendon Football Club saga when it was revealed he supplied supplements to sports scientist Stephen Dank for use by players.