Courteney Reid who operates NDIS provider Vibrant Care defends $52k spending scandal

An NDIS provider exposed for sending more than $45k to her drug trafficking boyfriend and splashing $7k on designer handbags has defended her actions. See the video.

Exclusive: An NDIS provider has defended transferring more than $45,000 to her drug trafficking Nigerian boyfriend and her purchase of a Louis Vuitton handbag from her company’s account.

Courteney Reid operates NDIS provider Vibrant Care which had a turnover of almost $1 million in three months, according to a bank statement.

Ms Reid also used a Commonwealth Bank account linked to Vibrant Care at a “plastic surgery” clinic, for an $8000 Qatar Airlines purchase, and at SeaWorld.

Hundreds of pages of leaked text messages, a bank statement and complaint emails to the disability watchdog have raised questions about the operations of Vibrant Care.

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Casmir Chibueze Ojinnaka, Nigerian partner of Courteney Reid.

Courteney Reid runs Vibrant Care in Sydney. Picture: Facebook

A leaked video of Ms Reid also appears to show her coaching a participant to pressure the NDIS to pay her.

“I need your guys help,” she says in the video. “I know you don’t really know how to articulate it … But we need to go (and say) f*** you guys, you need to pay my provider so I can get my f***en services. No, I don’t want to go anywhere else so figure it out, you know what I mean.”

Ms Reid says in the video the delays in her payments were “f***en bullshit”.

She also complained that former NDIS Minister Bill Shorten, who attempted to crack down on rorts in the scheme, was “the f***en arsehole that changed the NDIS.”

Mr Shorten described that as “the best compliment I’ve received”.

Court documents state that her partner Casmir Ojinnaka was sentenced to nine years and seven months’ jail in 2015 on a charge of attempting to import a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug.

Courteney Reid runs an NDIS provider called Vibrant Care in Sydney.

Documents show that Ojinnaka had sought character references when applying for an NDIS worker check which described him as an “honest and genuine” man who displayed “great ethics in the workplace.”

Ms Reid strongly denied any wrongdoing when contacted this week, claiming she was the victim of a computer hack which she had reported to New South Wales Police and the Australian Signals Directorate.

“Any money that I’ve ever spent has been my money that I’ve earned and I feel like you or anyone else can’t tell me how to spend it,” she said.

“If I want to buy myself a Louis Vuitton bag, I can, who are you or anyone else to tell me otherwise, that doesn’t make me a bad person.”

Vibrant Care operator Courteney Reid and Casmir Chibueze Ojinnaka.

Ms Reid also said her partner deserves a second chance after serving his prison time.

“My partner, who is Casmir Ojinnaka, does not deserve to have his name in the mud,” she said.

“He got an NDIS workers’ screening check, he was approved. We were honest about his conviction and they withdrew it and then he stopped working.

“We did everything the right way, do you understand?

“I had a baby and he stays at home and raises my baby, which he’s allowed to do, it’s his son and I run our business, it’s always been my company and he was just a support worker.

“I’ve done nothing wrong. I worked three days after I gave birth.”

A leaked Vibrant Care Commonwealth Bank Statement from July 1 to September 2024 shows a series of payments from the account to Ojinnaka.

Mr Ojinnaka received $2500 from Vibrant Care on August 7, which was listed as wages on the company’s bank statement.

He received weekly payments totalling $24,459.90 between July 1 and September 30, 2024, a copy of the Vibrant Care bank statement said.

Ojinnaka also received a $20,000 donation from Vibrant Care in August 2024, four days before the same bank account gave $10 to the Catholic parish of Penrith.

And the leaked bank account statement shows Ms Reid spent more than $7000 on two separate visits to Louis Vuitton in Sydney in July and September 2024.

There was also $600 spent at Bella Plastic Surgery in Bella Vista, western Sydney on August 24, 2024.

Casmir Ojinnaka is Courteney Reid’s partner.

Courteney Reid who is defending her actions.

The company’s account received $954,000 in that three month period, despite Vibrant Care only being registered on January 19, 2023.

Sources claim the company had around 37 clients, however, some of their packages were worth up to $1.5 million annually.

Ms Reid sent a further statement claiming that she had been a victim of a campaign of “misinformation affecting our organisation”.

“For over a year, we have faced baseless allegations from certain individuals,” she said.

“Our organisation consistently complies with Australian tax, superannuation regulations, and NDIS requirements, including regular audits to ensure transparency and integrity.”

Ojinnaka did not respond to an email seeking comment.