A building company linked to underworld figure Mick Gatto has been targeted in an online campaign by sub-contractors who say the company has ripped them off after they did work on apartment complexes.
Key points:
- The building company is accused of hiding money while refusing to pay workers
- The company told creditors it was struggling to pay debts because construction had been delayed on one of its sites
- Mick Gatto has invested heavily in an apartment complex being built by the company
The campaign includes a website that accuses the director of the builder, Imagebuild Group, of hiding money and assets while simultaneously refusing to pay tradesman and other sub-contractors.
The people responsible for the website are an IT specialist and an electrician who are allegedly owed more than $400,000 by Imagebuild Group, whose director is Brett Spits, and another company linked to the Spits family called SFOPPS.
The website says SFOPPS was placed into liquidation just prior to Christmas owing tradesmen millions of dollars, and that the director, Mr Spits’ mother, Theresa, was replaced by a “dummy” director shortly before liquidation.
ASIC records show the company was placed into liquidation in December, and that at the time, the director was…