The Vaucluse home of Mark Chikarovski is up for auction with a $14 million guide.
Never has a Sydney house with such current notoriety hit the auction market.
It is the Vaucluse home of Mark Chikarovski, who awaits sentencing for his admitted role in a dark web drug supply operation.
The Dalley Avenue house has been listed for October 30 auction with a $14m guide through Ray White’s Elliott Placks.
Chikarovski, who was the East Invest and Associates managing director, had bought the six-bedroom house in February last year for $11.5m with his wife Hannah (who is not accused of wrongdoing) through Sotheby’s.
“Sitting atop the highly prestigious hills of beautiful Vaucluse, boasting fantastic top-level views right out to the Harbour Bridge, this exceptional property offers a lifestyle of unmatched grandeur and effortless comfort,” the lsiting says.
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Mark Chikarovski with his mother, former Liberal leader Kerry Chikarovski.
Marketed as having a multi-generational floor plan, it had been offloaded by Maravillosa Properties Pty Ltd which had paid $13.1m in September 2022.
The glamorous beauty entrepreneur Linda Rogan, fighting midweek Federal Court bankruptcy proceedings, claimed that it was the tech billionaire Richard White who had bought the house through the shelf company for her to reside in.
But she claims she was locked out after their sexual relationship was discovered by White’s girlfriend Zena Nasser.
Chikarovski, the son of former Liberal leader Kerry Chikarovski, plead guilty to commercial drug supply, indictable drug supply, and dealing with the proceeds of crime at a court hearing in June.
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The home had previously been at the centre of a love triangle dispute between beauty entrepreneur Linda Rogan, tech billionaire Richard White and White’s girlfriend Zena Nasser.
The home offers beautiful views of the harbour, including the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Agreed facts tendered to court revealed Strike Force CESTA was established by NSW Police to investigate the online darknet vendor handle ‘AusCokeKing’.
The handle was operating on various darknet markets and since at least February 2023, Chikarovski was its sole user.
During that time, Chikarovski used the handle to sell MDMA, cocaine, meth and prescription drugs via the darknet marketplace – Abacus Market and he would use the Australian Postal system to distribute.
Orders were transacted with the exchange of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Etherium and Monero.
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Natural lighting throughout the home is a highlight of the grand design.
Chikarovski is hoping to make several million dollars in profit on his purchase cost.
A Cybercrime Squad Covert Operative, using the name ‘Joshua’, was authorised to make a series of controlled purchases of illegal drugs with ‘AusCokeKing’ from February 6 until May 16 last year and included 18 total transactions.
After receiving the orders, Chikarovski would usually drive in a Porsche Cayenne and drop the drugs off in a package at various express post boxes throughout Sydney’s eastern suburbs, including Bondi Junction, Rose Bay and Double Bay.
Some of the packages included a sticker thanking the buyer and asking them to leave “5 star feedback”.
Before his arrest on May 18, 2023, Chikarovski was found in the master bedroom of his Meriton Apartment in Bondi Junction with police seizing various drugs and “61 items of interest”.
Police also managed to access his laptop and found numerous tabs open which were logged into the username ‘AusCokeKing’.
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