The NDIS watchdog is moving to ban rogue provider Cocoon SDA Care and its nominated director permanently, as a whistleblower calls for an inquiry into a “broken” system she says could be wasting billions of dollars of taxpayer funds.
An NDIS firm at the centre of an unfolding scandal was accused of wrongly charging more than $77,000 for services to three dead people.
For years Zaffar Khan has been able to grow his empire while moving from one cowboy company to the next. Now, the unscrupulous practices of NDIS firm Cocoon are being brought to light.
Federal authorities formed a preliminary view that a troubled disability firm at the centre of a probe needed to pay back money for claims that it had provided NDIS services to prisoners.
A disability provider earning $50m a year from the NDIS was sending out unchecked and untrained staff, a whistleblower alleged more than a year before the firm became the subject of a major investigation.
The former chief executive of a NDIS firm that is now at the centre of a federal investigation has released messages she sent to then-minister Bill Shorten alerting him to serious concerns in 2023.
A company linked to two men behind troubled disability care provider Cocoon SDA Care failed multiple NDIS accreditation audits four years ago.
Former Howard government minister Gary Hardgrave has severed ties with a troubled NDIS provider that he has long been associated with, following more than a week of revelations about the company’s operations.
Co-founded by a big-talking former bankrupt at the centre of prior consumer warnings, Zaffar Khan’s Cocoon SDA Care is everything the public does not need associated with the $48.5bn-a-year scheme.
NDIS provider Cocoon SDA Care offered staff secret extra bonuses for signing up clients with significant disabilities, in a program condemned for creating an incentive to pressure those needing support to act against their own best interests.
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