Heka Group director, Jason Diprose’s waterfront home revealed

The director of a Sunshine Coast engineering company facing a multimillion-dollar debt has been residing in a beautiful waterfront home, while documents have revealed he began a new business less than a year before the other entered liquidation.

Director of Heka Group, Jason Scott Diprose. Pic Megan Slade.

The director of a major Sunshine Coast engineering company facing a multimillion-dollar Australian Taxation Office debt began a new company less than a year before his engineering business entered liquidation, documents reveal.

The engineering company, Heka Diprose Pty Ltd, which traded as Heka Group, appointed liquidator Dane Hammond to the company on Thursday, February 22, 2024.

Australian Securities and Investments Commission documents seen by this publication showed Jason Scott Diprose held the positions of director and secretary of the Heka Diprose Pty Ltd since the company began in the Sunshine Coast in 2008.

In the documents, Mr Hammond states Mr Diprose told him three companies in total, including Heka Coatings Pty Ltd and Heka Solutions Pty Ltd, would not be able to continue trading, adding “immediate closure was likely”.

The largest debt is owed by Heka Diprose to the ATO for an estimated $2.85m, according to the report published on ASIC.

The report also stated a further estimated $1m was owed to various creditors.

Mr Diprose is also the director of another company, Aussie Shade Sheds Pty Ltd, according to ASIC documents, which is located at the Heka Group address at unit 1, 49 Enterprise Street, Kunda Park.

It is understood Aussie Shade Sheds is not part of Heka Group and is not in the process of external administration.

The documents for the Aussie Shade Sheds company state the business began with Mr Diprose as the director on May 17, 2023.

Jason Diprose’s Minyama home is estimated to now be worth $2.3m.

Mr Diprose’s waterfront residence in Minyama.

At the time of the Heka Group’s liquidation notice Mr Diprose was residing in a waterfront property in Minyama, according to the company’s ASIC documents.

Property data records show the Minyama property was last sold in 2021 for approximately $1.9m, with it’s estimated value now at $2.3m.