Drip IV Australia director Kristie Baird lists luxury lifestyle online

Seized products and luxury listings - Gold Coast company Drip IV Australia is embroiled in more controversy following its alleged debt scandal. SEE THE VIDEO

A health watchdog seized documents and medications from a Gold Coast wellness clinic a year before its collapse allegedly owing thousands in unpaid wages and super, it can be revealed.

The February 2022 swoop by the Gold Coast Public Health Unit on the Burleigh Heads premises of Drip IV Australia - a mobile intravenous vitamin infusion company - followed a complaint, the health unit confirmed.

Kristie Baird

The unit would not reveal the result of the now-closed investigation, but confirmed it had taken documents and medicines through its powers under the Medicines and Poisons Act.

The revelation comes as Drip IV Australia director Kristie Baird took to Facebook recently to sell a stack of luxury goods.

Ms Baird had listed on Facebook a stack of her luxury possessions including a $119,000 Range Rover as she battles two court cases.

Drip IV Australia went into receivership on January 30 by small business lender Bizcap over an unpaid loan agreement.

The news of receivership sparked staff claims of unpaid wages and alleged unpaid debts running into the hundreds of thousands.

Separately, Drip IV’s New Zealand arm was accused of illegally using Australian scripts for clients in NZ. The claims of illegally using Australian scripts for clients in New Zealand surfaced in an unfair dismissal case with the Employment Relations Authority in NZ in 2022.

Ms Baird, sole director of Drip IV, has been ordered to appear in the District Court in Brisbane on March 12 for an “enforcement hearing” relating to an alleged debt to Adelaide supply company Infinity Custom Pharmaceuticals.

The order came just five days before the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation filed a claim in the same court seeking payment of $420,880 for alleged unpaid tax relation to Drip IV Australia.

Ms Baird - the 2021 Entrepreneur of the Year, 2022 Business Woman of the Year and 2023 Business News Australia Trailblazer of the Year - had listed two dozen luxury items for sale via Facebook.

Items for sale included a 2019 Range Rover Sport selling for $119,000, a $2500 Louis Vuitton handbag, an $1800 Prada handbag, a $1500 Prada handbag, multiple computers, two dishwashers, a fridge, a grand piano, home and office furniture. Many of the items had been removed on Friday after Bulletin inquiries.

Kristie Baird is selling her luxury items on Facebook Marketplace. Picture: Facebook

Staff – who say they are were owed tens of thousands in unpaid wages – have questioned the reason for the sales.

“She’s selling her luxury lifestyle including her Range Rover,” one current employee said.

“Maybe to pay off debts, maybe not.”

Drip IV Australia, responding to allegations put to it by the Bulletin earlier this month of unpaid wages and “illegally” using Australian scripts for clients in New Zealand, is rejecting all the claims as false and damaging and said in future it would address all the claims once legal action was complete.

Originally published as Drip IV Australia director Kristie Baird lists luxury lifestyle online