Sydney Morning Herald: motorcycle gangs are responsible for illegal intake of steroids in Australia

The newspaper “The Sydney Morning Herald” reports that outlaw motorcycle gangs are responsible for spread of illegal steroid use in Australia. The gangs receive significant profit and reduced risks.
The detective Nick Bingham has said that New South Wales Police doesn’t focus on investigation connected with usage of steroids but anabolic steroids become targets of investigations, when outlaw motorcycle gangs are arrested for violation of other laws.
According to the detective Nick Bingham, although New South Wales policemen don’t raid houses of gangs for steroids, they find them, when they conduct searches for weapons and psychostimulant drugs.
Nick Bingham has reported that they ordinarily seize such quantities of steroids from motorcycle gangs that are just for personal intake. Quantities of other products that are usually found in possession of gangs are much greater than those of steroids.
Bingham has claimed that criminals prefer taking anabolic steroids in order to get threatening muscular bodies. They want to look big and strong.
However the detective Nick Bingham is sure that gangs have steroids only for personal application, the newspaper “The Sydney Morning Herald” doesn’t agree with this statement. It reports that motorcycle gangs are involved in smuggling of steroids.
However gyms are claimed to be the main sources of steroids for bodybuilders, it is stated by “The Sydney Morning Herald” that certain gyms have close connections with motorcycle gangs. The Herald claims that numerous seizures made by the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service are linked directly with distribution of steroids by motorcycle gangs.
According to reports of Australian Customs, mail seizures of steroids have been increased significantly in comparison with past years.
More than 2, 000 seizures were made in 2009-2010 and over 5, 000 seizures of steroids were recorded in 2010-2011.
The majority of seizures were related to personal administration of steroids imported illegally by bodybuilders.