Businessman who made fortune as part of world’s biggest steroids smuggling gang ordered to pay £1m

A businessman who made a fortune as the world’s biggest supplier of illegal steroids has been ordered to pay back £1m or face another seven years in jail.

Alexander MacGregor, 54, will now have to surrender his Rolexes, racing cars with personalised number plates and shotguns along with an investment portfolio worth over £700,000.

He worked with Danish pharmaceutical tycoon Jacob Sporon-Fiedler, 41, and champion bodybuilder Nathan Selcon, 48, making anabolic steroids and prescription medications in a converted container at Heathrow Airport.

MacGregor, of Maidenhead, denied but was convicted of conspiring to produce class C drugs in December 2020.

His total benefit from crime was valued at £2,395,935 at his confiscation hearing at the Old Bailey

It was agreed that £1,159,779.16 of MacGregor’s assets were available for confiscation.

Alexander MacGregor, 54, has been ordered to pay back £1m or face more jail time inside

It was agreed £1,159,779.16 of MacGregor’s assets were available for confiscation in court

MacGregor must pay the agreed amount within the next three months.

Prosecutor Cameron Brown said: ‘The available amount is broken down in the various sources; bank balances, pensions and shares…everything is attributable to Mr MacGregor.’

MacGregor’s confiscated sport watches included two 2014 Rolex watches – a Daytona and GMT11, worth £17,000 and £11,500 each.

A Datejust, Audemars-Piguet and a 2012 Royal Oak will also be handed over.

Two of MacGregor’s shotguns are currently held with Thames Valley Police including a Beretta DT11 worth £11,500.

Images released by the NCA such as the one above show people moving the drugs in and out of a container 

Boxes are seen stacked up following the seizure of the drugs by Border Force operators 

An office space is pictured above with filing cabinets containing documents revealing the gang’s plans 

Seized cars include two Ferrari 458s, one with a personalised number plate containing MacGregor’s initials, and one Speciale.

A Porsche 911 GT3 originally valued at £100,000 will also be confiscated, but only for £45,000 since its engine has been blown out.

The same had occurred with a seized Mercedes G-Wagon now worth only £40,000.

In March 2014, the unit, which MacGregor kitted out with ‘hobs’ and specialist equipment for cooking the drugs, was found by National Crime Agency officers in Skyport Drive, Harmondsworth.

It was hidden within a storage facility with a number of top-of-the-range Porsche sports cars, owned by racing enthusiast Macgregor, parked up out front.

The disgraced businessman used his legitimate company CE Corporate Logistics as a front and claimed throughout his trial that he was oblivious to the operation inside the container.

But a jury rejected his account and accepted the prosecution case that he enjoyed a ‘handsome off-the-books payment’ for supplying products, staff and electricity.

MacGregor, Selcon and a third fixer, Mohammed Afzal, 38, were convicted of conspiracy to manufacture class C drugs in 2019.

A fourth dealer, Gurjaipal Dhillon, 68, was convicted of conspiring to import class C drugs on 5 June 2019 after helping Sporon-Fielder smuggle the steroids into the UK from India.

Sporon-Fiedler was jailed for five years and four months imprisonment; Selcon was sentenced to six years imprisonment; Dhillon received five years jail; Afzal was sentenced to two years imprisonment.

His confiscation proceedings are due to take place at the Old Bailey tomorrow.