NDIS bans ‘love doctor’ Moaz Ibrahim over serious breaches

NDIS provider Crescent and its cigar-chomping director have been permanently banned after investigators uncovered "serious and systemic" breaches affecting disabled clients.

NDIS provider Crescent has been banned from the scheme, as has the man behind it – cigar-chomping “love doctor” Moaz ‘Jay’ Ibrahim.

Crescent, which is connected to the disgraced Cocoon group, was suspended last month but will be permanently prohibited from providing services under the National Disability Insurance Scheme from September 12.

Crescent has been providing respite care and long-term homes for NDIS participants. Its website lists 13 properties in Victoria. This masthead understands about 50 disabled people are affected by the prohibition.

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission assistant commissioner Mahashini Krishna said Crescent’s “managing director Moaz Ibrahim, also known as Jay Ibrahim”, had been banned as well.

Crescent and its sole director, Moaz ‘Jay’ Ibrahim, have been banned by the NDIS.

Ms Krishna said the commission’s actions followed “an investigation into Crescent and related entities including Horizon SolSolutions Australia Pty Ltd, trading as Cocoon SDA Care.

That investigation “uncovered serious and systemic breaches of the NDIS code of conduct, including failure to provide supports and services in a safe and competent manner, failure to act with integrity, honesty and transparency, and unlawful breaches of participant privacy, among other violations”, she added.

“Other individuals and businesses linked to Crescent and Horizon continue to be monitored, and the NDIS Commission will take further action as appropriate,” Ms Krishna said.

The liquidator of Horizon – which has debts of $80 million – this week described Crescent as a “related party” in a report to creditors.

The two companies shared the same registered office in south Brisbane. After Horizon first ran into trouble with authorities earlier this year, it told some Cocoon clients it would be “transitioning their services” to Crescent. And Crescent’s sole shareholder is Horizon’s executive director, Sydney man Pranay Kumar.

Moaz ‘Jay’ Ibrahim describes himself as a “life architect” and “love doctor”. Picture: Instagram

In June, this masthead reported that an internal memo written by Mr Ibrahim said Crescent had been purchased by Disability Dynamics and that the new owner would “begin working with many of our existing participants under new service agreements”.

However, no paperwork has been filed with the corporate regulator to confirm that purchase.

Crescent was last month forced into receivership by its lender, BizCap.

Crescent’s receiver SV Partners was contacted for comment, as was Disability Dynamics owner Haris Memic and Crescent shareholder Mr Kumar.

Mr Ibrahim was repeatedly approached for comment.

In addition to running an NDIS provider, Mr Ibrahim describes himself as a “life architect” and “love doctor” on Facebook and LinkedIn.

As a life architect, he offers to take people on an “ultimate freedom journey” by teaching the “critical role of health in your success”, as well as “how to turn $10,000 into $1 million” and “magnetise your business desires”.

Originally published as NDIS bans ‘love doctor’ Moaz Ibrahim over serious breaches