Records of Queensland One Homes destroyed by rain after computer server left in back of ute

THE director of collapsed Coast builder Queensland One Homes will be asked to appear before the Supreme Court for a public examination after company records were destroyed in a strange way.

Paul Travis Callender and Amber Patrice Callender. Photo: Facebook

THE director of collapsed Gold Coast builder Queensland One Homes will be asked to appear before the Supreme Court for a public examination about the destruction of company records.

Hard drives containing crucial financial records from were left in the back of a ute in the rain, where they became too wet to recover files from, creditors of the company have heard.

Liquidator Michael Caspaney also told creditors he’d received debt claims totalling almost $6 million from subcontractors and others, not the $3.4 million detailed by the company when it went into liquidation in July.

Through his lawyer, sole director Paul Callender unsuccessfully tried to unseat Mr Caspaney as liquidator at the meeting, but was outvoted.

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An Australian Australian Taxation Office representative attended the creditor’s meeting via phone.

Q1 Homes owes taxpayers more than $380,000 — more than twice what the company first claimed.

Empire Constructions Pty Ltd, the company directed by Mr Callender’s wife Amber Callender, is under investigation by the Queensland Building and Construction Commission and has referred allegations of illegal phoenix activities to ASIC.

Mr Caspaney told creditors those linked to Queensland One Homes would be subject to a public examination.

Under corporations law, a liquidator can subpoena people to appear in the Supreme Court to answer questions about a company collapse and they are legally required to attend.

Mr Caspaney told creditors he’d “faced difficulties” collecting records on Queensland One Homes.

Valarie Kargar, pictured with her son Patrick, had multiple defects in her Q1 Homes house. Picture: Jerad Williams

The minutes of the meeting said the liquidator had received the company’s server, which contained two hard drives, which had been left out in the back of a ute and been water damaged.

“Expert data recovery consultants advised that the two hard drives that were left in the server were only a part of a larger array of hard drives,” the minutes said.

“The advice was that without the other drives from the array, it would be impossible to recover any data. This suggests that the other hard drives were taken out of the server before it was placed into the utility.”

Mr Caspaney was told there were no backups available a backup of the server, which had been in use up to 11 days after the company went into liquidation on July 6.

Mr Callender’s brother Mark Callender, holding proxy votes on behalf of several creditors, moved to remove Mr Caspaney on the basis that his fees were too high — but he lost the vote.