Jason Nicholls, manager of McLaren’s Landing and Tallship under fire from Coast company claiming thousands owed

A Gold Coast recruitment services company claims it is owed tens of thousands of dollars by an embattled businessman.

BUNDALL recruitment services company OmniRecruit claims it is owed tens of thousands of dollars by embattled McLaren’s Landing manager Jason Nicholls.

OmniRecruit managing director Darren Winmill claims a payment by Mr Nicholls of $3000 to his company for hospitality staff on February 13 was subsequently revoked by the bank due to concerns the original payment by Mr Nicholls had been unauthorised.

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OmniRecruit MD Darren Winmill claims to be owed $24k by McLaren's Landing GM Jason Nicholls after he was not paid for providing hospitality staff for events. Picture: Jerad Williams

Mr Winmill had requested the part payment after Mr Nicholls allegedly failed numerous times to pay for services provided by OmniRecruit, racking up tens of thousands of dollars debt in the process.

Mr Nicholls is the subject of numerous allegations that he charged people for Christmas parties at the South Stradbroke Island resort that were never delivered.

“I called my bank Scottish Pacific to confirm the transaction on February 13, which they did,” Mr Winmill said.

“I then released the staff to him, who were waiting at the marina.

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Jason Nicholls standing with one of his vessels of Tallship.

“However late last month my bank told me that the cardholder had disputed the transaction and it had been unauthorised.”

The money was then taken out of his account.

When he called Westpac, which held the cardholders’ account, he was told the cardholder was neither not Mr Nicholls.

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McLaren's Landing, just north of Tipplers on South Stradbroke Island.

A Westpac employee wrote to him that the “Cardholder did not authorise or participate in this transaction and therefore will be processing chargeback to your account”.

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Mr Winmill first started supplying hospitality staff to Mr Nicholls in December.

He said after reports in the Bulletin after cancelled Christmas parties, some of which his staff were due to work at, he contacted Mr Nicholls to express concern.

He said he was owed $13,000 at this point and was promised partial payments.

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OmniRecruit MD Darren Winmill. Picture: Jerad Williams

Mr Winmill said Mr Nicholls sent screenshots from his phone of pending transactions, but the money never arrived.

“I said there is a difference between having a cashflow problem, which I can help you with, and intentionally deceiving people.”

Mr Winmill said he asked for the credit card payment on February 13 after numerous bank transfers failed to come into his account.

He said Mr Nicholls currently owed him $24,000, which was a substantial amount for a small business employing 20 people.

“We pay our staff weekly, wages, superannuation, work cover, all of that,” he said.

“We are not a big corporation.”

Mr Nicholls declined to comment when contacted.