{"id":427675,"date":"2026-01-21T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/427675\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:10:10","slug":"banned-adelaide-doctor-bill-tolis-in-court-over-steroid-importation-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/427675\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Adelaide doctor Bill Tolis in court over steroid importation charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 61-year-old Adelaide doctor banned from practising has appeared in court charged with importing performance and image-enhancing drugs, including steroids, allegedly for supply through a western suburbs GP clinic.<\/p>\n

Bill Tolis was arrested last November after Australian Border Force (ABF) officers conducted raids at a Woodville medical clinic and his home.<\/p>\n

He has been charged with importing tier 1 goods, contrary to the Customs Act.<\/p>\n

\"Medication<\/p>\n

Drugs allegedly found at a medical clinic linked with Bill Tolis last November. (Supplied: Australian Border Force)<\/p>\n

In a media release the ABF said its investigation began last October when air cargo officers examined three international consignments addressed to the Woodville clinic and allegedly found vials of steroids.<\/p>\n

The border security agency said intelligence checks identified an additional 11 parcels sent to the same name and address.<\/p>\n

In November the ABF and SA Police executed search warrants and allegedly seized 242 vials of liquid steroids, $21,000 cash, multiple electronic devices and packaging materials from the medical clinic.<\/p>\n

The ABF alleged that another 107 vials of peptides and steroids were found at the man’s home.<\/p>\n

\"Unidentifiable,<\/p>\n

An office linked with Bill Tolis was raided last year. (Supplied: Australian Border Force)<\/p>\n

Banned from being doctor<\/p>\n

Mr Tolis is a banned medical practitioner.<\/p>\n

In 2022, the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal found Mr Tolis had engaged in professional misconduct and ordered his medical practitioner’s registration be cancelled.<\/p>\n

The tribunal also ordered Mr Tolis be prohibited from applying for registration for seven years and banned him from providing any health services, including naturopathy.<\/p>\n

Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency put out a statement last month saying it was concerned Mr Tolis may have been continuing to provide health services despite being banned.<\/p>\n

\"Three<\/p>\n

Drugs allegedly found at an office linked with Bill Tolis last November. (Supplied: Australian Border Force)<\/p>\n

Accused denies allegations<\/p>\n

Mr Tolis appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court for a brief hearing and the matter was adjourned until April.<\/p>\n

He is on bail and is required to report to Port Adelaide police station every Friday.<\/p>\n

Outside court, he denied importing steroids and indicated he would have more to say later.<\/p>\n

“That’s a long, complicated story and you’ll be finding out about it,” Mr Tolis said.<\/p>\n

He described his position at the medical clinic as being in “management” and said it was “slander” for authorities to say he may pose a risk to clients.<\/p>\n

\"Medication<\/p>\n

Drugs allegedly found in a fridge at an office linked with Bill Tolis last November. (Supplied: Australian Border Force)<\/p>\n

Peptides are growing in popularity for anti-aging<\/a> applications and other benefits and are only legal in Australia with a prescription from a doctor.<\/p>\n

ABF Assistant Inspector Michael Foster said steroids were regulated in Australia for good reasons.<\/p>\n

“Steroids can seriously damage your health and anyone distributing them without proper authority is putting people at risk, not supporting their fitness goals,” he said.<\/p>\n

“As people set new fitness goals for the year ahead, it’s worth remembering that legitimate gains never come from illegal shortcuts.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 61-year-old Adelaide doctor banned from practising has appeared in court charged with importing performance and image-enhancing drugs,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3443,14841,64,63,86235,224419,24243,1730,134,224420,2683,224421,223148,122514],"class_list":["post-427675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-adelaide","tag-ahpra","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-border-force","tag-bill-tolis","tag-doctor","tag-drugs","tag-entertainment","tag-findon-clinic","tag-gp","tag-pied","tag-sacat","tag-steroids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}