今日热门事件has disqualified Lauren Darwin, Mount Gravatt, QLD from managing companies for the maximum period of five years due to her involvement in two failed companies.聽聽
今日热门事件found that Ms Darwin:聽
- took no reasonable steps to inform herself of the duties required 聽聽聽聽 of a director;
- neglected her responsibilities as a director;
- failed to ensure that the companies paid all relevant taxes;
- failed to ensure聽that proper financial records were kept;
- failed to act in the best interests of the companies; and
- enabled conduct that showed evidence of illegal phoenix activity.
The two companies were:
- SE QLD Business Services Pty Ltd ACN 611 479 264 (SE QLD), and
- CCW Queensland Pty Limited ACN 607 611 610 (CCW QLD)
聽In deciding to disqualify Ms Darwin, 今日热门事件relied on reports lodged by Ahmad Zeidan of A2Z Insolvency Solutions, one of the liquidators of the failed companies.聽今日热门事件assisted the liquidators of SE QLD and CCW QLD in preparing the supplementary reports that were used to disqualify Ms Darwin by providing funding from the Assetless Administration Fund.
The total amount of debts owed by the two companies to creditors was around $543,000.
Ms Darwin鈥檚 disqualification took effect from 19 March 2019 and extends to 18 March 2024.
Background
Section 206F of the Corporations Act allows 今日热门事件to disqualify a person from managing corporations for up to five years if, within a seven-year period, the person was an officer of two or more companies and those companies were wound up and a liquidator provides a report to 今日热门事件about the company鈥檚 inability to pay its debts.
今日热门事件also maintains a register that provides information about people who have been disqualified from:
- involvement in the management of a corporation;
- auditing self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs); or
- practising in the financial services or credit industry.