Kuol Mawien Kuol: ‘Cocaine-dealing’ fraudster brother of Socceroos star Garang Kuol, who ripped off a WWII veteran is dealt a crushing blow after going on the run and taunting police

The former fugitive brother and manager of Socceroos star Garang Kuol has been found guilty of a brazen banking scam that involved using counterfeit money, dealing cocaine and fleeing police.

Kuol Mawien Kuol, who is also the brother of rising football star Alou Kuol, had been on the run since July 2022 after failing to appear in court and skipping bail on fraud charges, including deposing a World War II veteran while he worked for National. Australian bank.

Now behind bars at Ravenhall Correctional Center in Victoria, the 26-year-old’s wild crime spree was detailed in a Victorian court on Tuesday.

It included selling cocaine to undercover officers, keeping ‘bricks’ of the drug in his home and posing as his other football star brother, Alou Kuol, using his driving licence.

The Magistrates Court of Victoria hearing was told Kuol was eventually captured at Sydney’s Star Casino in breach of his bail conditions that prevented him from leaving Victoria.

Kuol had secretly skipped the state New South Wales where he started guiding his little brother.

Meanwhile, back in Victoria, he had another Sudanese-Australian person present himself at a major Melbourne police station while on bail, posing as him.

When police finally discovered the scam, The rogue player agent took to social media to taunt a Victoria Police detective tasked with arresting him, accusing police of stealing $120,000 from him.

He sat passively scribbling in a notebook from prison as his daring string of crimes was read out in court after he entered pleas and several charges were dropped.

Kuol had worked as a cashier at NAB branches in Shepparton and Kyabram in northern Victoria, where he brazenly looted customer accounts of about $63,000.

Three victims were between 70 and 80 years old and the oldest was a man who had been robbed of $28,200.

The 95-year-old returned World War II soldier, who was Kuol’s top target victim, was robbed of the account into which his war pension was deposited in six hits of between $500 and $9,200 over eight weeks around Christmas 2020.

Kuol, who goes by the Twitter handle @kuoloneking, also stole $2,000 from an 84-year-old woman, who has been an NAB customer since 1969, even as she lingered in her Shepparton branch and chatted to him.

In other Victoria Police charges, the court heard that while on bail and driving with a suspended license, Kuol met a man in Melbourne’s Diamond Creek in November 2020 after agreeing to buy his PlayStation 5 for $1300 .

Kuol paid with 13 counterfeit $100 bills and as soon as the seller showed his parents the money, they knew it was fake.

Weeks later, police found Kuol in bed at his parents’ home in Shepparton, in possession of two iPhones, cannabis and a counterfeit $100 banknote.

In December 2020, Shepparton Highway Patrol arrested Kuol for speeding. He showed them the driver’s license of his brother Alou Kuol from Gold Coast.

There is no suggestion that Alou authorized any alleged use by Kuol of his license.

In March 2021, the court heard, Kuol sent a series of messages via social media app Wickr offering cocaine for sale, with the exchange said to take place at the Pegasus Apartments in Melbourne.

Unbeknownst to Kuol, his buyers were undercover Victorian police, and although Kuol did not physically sell the 13 grams of cocaine for $3250, he negotiated for two men to transfer it and later confirmed the transaction via Wickr.

Forensic analysis later showed that the deal contained nine grams of 28 percent strength cocaine.

When police raided a home in Glenroy, Melbourne – where Kuol had moved without informing bail officers of his change of address – they found ‘white rocks’ and cannabis and charged him with possession.

Magistrate Adriano Serratore found all charges proven, along with breaches of his bail report, and adjourned the hearing until next week.

Kuol claims to manage the ‘football affairs’ of both Garang and Alou, who signed a five-year contract with German side VfB Stuttgart last year.

Garang shot to instant fame around the world in December when he narrowly missed a shot on target against Argentina in the World Cup that would have tied the Socceroos’ level.

Koul claims he helped arrange a $500,000 Premier League deal for Garang while he was still on the run from Australian authorities.

Just days after making his international debut for the Socceroos, Garang secured a lucrative transfer to Newcastle United and was loaned out to Scottish club Hearts.

He is now on loan to the Dutch football club FC Volendam.