A Victoria director has been disqualified from managing firms for three-and-a-half years because of her involvement within the failure of three firms, ASIC has reported.
Athina Bragiannis, also referred to as Tina Bragiannis, of Preston, VIC was the director of holding entity Rococo Hawthorn No 1 in addition to of property growth corporations Cleveland Lodge Developments and Bellbird Property Holdings from Feb. 10, 2012, to February 2018. These three firms entered liquidation between Oct. 4, 2017 and Feb. 9, 2018.
Bragiannis has been disqualified from managing firms till Feb. 11, 2027, after ASIC investigations discovered that she acted improperly and failed to satisfy her obligations as a director.
Based on the regulator, Bragiannis:
- enforced finance offers on behalf of Cleveland Lodge Developments to additional the pursuits of one other firm have been she was additionally the only director and shareholder
- enabled funds to be comprised of Cleveland Lodge Developments’ checking account to 2 firms the place she was additionally the only director and shareholder for items and providers that weren’t provided to Cleveland Lodge Developments
- failed to make sure that sufficient funds have been put other than the sale of property for a GST legal responsibility owing by Cleveland Lodge Developments to the Australian Taxation Workplace and to make sure that Cleveland Lodge Developments paid that legal responsibility
- failed to make sure that Cleveland Lodge Developments and Rococo Hawthorn No 1 saved written monetary data as legally required
- failed to forestall Cleveland Lodge Developments from incurring money owed when it was affordable to suspect that the corporate was bancrupt
- failed to make sure Rococo Hawthorn No 1 and Cleveland Lodge Developments complied with their statutory lodgment obligations to the ATO
- relied upon others to run the enterprise and monetary affairs of Cleveland Lodge Developments with out sufficient oversight
“On the time of ASIC’s resolution, the three firms owed a mixed complete of $8,684,516.52 to unsecured collectors, together with $7,902,469.35 to the ATO,” ASIC mentioned.
In handing down the choice, the company watchdog relied on supplementary stories filed by Cleveland Lodge Growth’s former liquidator Richard Rohrt of Kennedy Ryan Advisory and its present liquidator, Andrew MacNeill of SMB Advisory, and Rococo Hawthorn No 1’s liquidator, Rohrt.
To help Rohrt and Mr MacNeill to organize their stories for Cleveland Lodge Developments, ASIC granted an utility for funding from the Assetless Administration Fund.
Bragiannis has the precise to hunt a overview of ASIC’s resolution by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, the regulator mentioned in a press release.