source : the age
Surry Hills restaurateur Janto Wolf Kuban has been charged with supplying MDMA and cocaine to an undercover police officer.
Detectives say that the eastern suburbs man’s first foray into drug supply was at Kensington on February 10, when he allegedly supplied 373.6g of MDMA from his rented two-bedroom apartment.
Janto Wolf Kuban was allegedly selling large quantities of drugs to an undercover police officer.Credit: Cole Bennetts
Court documents obtained by the Herald show that 15 days later, he allegedly upped his game to supplying more than a kilogram of the same drug.
In the early days of March, Kuban, 40, is accused of going on to supply 997g of MDMA on one occasion, then four kilograms on March 19.
It was on that day that investigators from the State Crime Command’s Strike Force Mavor arrested Kuban, who is now facing five drug supply offences and remains bail refused before the courts.
Police also picked up 38-year-old Matthew Marreiros in Hurstville that day, charging him with a raft of drug supply offences, dealing with the proceeds of crime and failing to comply with a digital evidence access order.
Raids that day in a storage unit in Kensington and at an address in Hurstville saw officers seize 3.8kg of cocaine, 22kg of cannabis, 580 grams of MDMA, vapes, electronics and a total of more than $40,000 in cash.
Both men remain in prison on remand.
“Strike Force Mavor was established by State Crime Command’s Organised Crime Squad to investigate the supply of large commercial quantities of prohibited drugs in New South Wales,” NSW Police said in a statement.
Kuban and his business partner last year appeared in a real estate story about so-called “ghost kitchens”, restaurants that cater exclusively to delivery apps like Uber Eats and Deliveroo.
Kuban’s restaurant sold a dizzying array of options via food delivery apps, ranging from poke bowls to pasta, curry, Mexican and burgers.
The business was not a success.
The financials, Kuban’s business partner said, “didn’t stack up”.
“We soon realised there wasn’t enough margin in the pie at the end of the day for everybody to get their clip, given the 30 per cent commission structure that the delivery partners are set up on,” Kuban’s business partner told the publication.
