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A Supreme Court fight between siblings at the centre of a troubled NDIS provider has taken a fresh turn after a lawyer told the court he could not take instructions from a company’s acting director after learning of his overseas bankruptcy.
The proceedings were brought in December by Bila Counselling and Support Services on behalf of director Lenard Swanepoel-Trollip, against his sister Jennifer McAlpine, a former employee and current shareholder of the NDIS-funded disability provider.
The court developments come after this masthead revealed last week that Lenard and his husband Christiaan Swanepoel-Trollip were declared bankrupt in South Africa in 2017 after the collapse of their real estate business, and have since acted as directors and shareholders of several NDIS-related companies in Australia, which is not allowed under Australian law.
The directors were accused of moving client funds from trust accounts to other accounts, and the company entered liquidation before…
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