A former senior account executive for MBA Insurance Services, Aravinda Mathuran, has been sentenced to 39 months’ jail for importing and trafficking illicit drugs.
Mathuran, who was employed by MBA Insurance Services one year before his arrest across numerous roles from 2010 till 2017, was busted after the Australian Border Force intercepted 15 parcels containing MDMA, cocaine and ketamine worth an estimated street value of $40,000.
He will spend his sentence with 21 months wholly suspended in the County Court after pleading guilty to importing and trafficking drugs in early August.
The parcels of illicit drugs were sent from France, Germany and the UK between September 2018 and February 2019 to mailboxes in Melbourne’s Hawthorn, Camberwell, Elsternwick and Malvern suburbs. They were addressed to an alias name known as “Stefan Perera” which investigators later uncovered as Mathuran.
Mathuran’s Glen Iris home was raided by investigators in February last year where mobile phones, drugs, fake IDs and over $2,000 in cash was seized as evidence by police.
According to the Herald Sun, a phone analysis uncovered further evidence of LSD, cocaine and MDMA transactions dating back to 2018. Included in the phone’s messages were texts referencing the high-quality of illicit substances that Mathuran pleaded guilty to trafficking.
Mathuran started his employment with MBA Insurance Services in 2010 as a trainee insurance broker and climbed the ranks to a senior account executive in the years leading up to February 2017.
MBA Insurance Services told Insurance Business that because Mathuran's arrest took place after his employment with the company, they will not provide a comment.
