Prince of NDIS

Описание: The man suspected of an NDIS fraud worth millions
Large sums of taxpayer money meant for some of the most vulnerable Australians have been flowing through companies linked to a man named Khawaja Moeen Haroon.

While his network has been under investigation for suspected fraud on the NDIS, some of those in his care have been left living in squalor.

This is how he built his network, and the human cost to those caught in its web.

One of Haroon’s first forays into the disability business was Crescent Community Care.

He became part-owner of the company at the same time he was driving taxis in 2018.

In 2021, his business card stated he was the company’s operations manager.
By then he was already on the radar of organisations helping people at risk of homelessness, including the Mental Health Legal Centre headed by Charlotte Jones.

Jones noticed he was seeking to persuade NDIS participants to move from supported residential services, which are state-regulated boarding houses, into his private share houses .

Greg confirmed to his support workers that he was promised endless cigarettes as well as good food if he made Haroon’s business his NDIS service provider

The investigation is understood to be probing the movement of more than $10 million in NDIS money to more than half a dozen Haroon-linked companies.

Investigators swooped in November, forcibly entering Haroon’s mansion in a pre-dawn raid that woke up neighbours and filled the quiet cul de sac where he lives with swarms of uniformed officers.

At the same time, they raided his office at a business hub in Point Cook.

Businesses continue to sign up clients
Complaints about Haroon’s companies have been flowing into agencies charged with safeguarding the NDIS — the NDIA and the NDIS Commission — since 2021.

The full-scale investigation by the Fraud Fusion Taskforce was up and running by mid-2023.

But despite the complaints and the investigation, the agencies have allowed scores of vulnerable people to keep signing up to Haroon’s companies.