15/02/2026
An unregistered NDIS provider director allegedly siphoned $859,000 into Sportsbet, TAB and online lotteries.
2,782 separate transfers. Over nearly three years. From a company meant to support people with disabilities.
ASIC just charged Byson Turner, former director of Links Support and Consulting Services in WA, with eight counts of dishonestly using his position as a director. He also allegedly refused to show up for two separate ASIC examinations.
The maximum penalty? 15 years imprisonment.
Let that sit for a second.
Now here’s what should concern every provider, participant, and family in the NDIS:
Links Support operated as an unregistered provider. No audits. No Practice Standards compliance. No Commission oversight until ASIC stepped in and that was a corporate law investigation, not a quality and safeguards one.
This is exactly why the conversation around mandatory registration matters. Not because registration is a silver bullet, it isn’t. But because operating without ANY regulatory visibility creates the conditions for exactly this kind of exploitation.
The Commission’s Reform Roadmap has mandatory registration for SIL and Platform Providers targeted for mid-2026. But cases like this raise a harder question: what about every other unregistered support category where participant funds flow with minimal accountability?
Every dollar stolen from the NDIS is a dollar that didn’t reach someone who needed it. And every case like this gets weaponised to justify cutting participant plans punishing the people who were already the victims.
If you’re a provider doing the right thing, these stories should fuel your commitment to transparency, not just your outrage.
At Expressive Mind Therapy, while we are a small company, we chose registration and accountability from day one. Not because it’s easy. Because it’s the baseline. It’s for accountability and to safeguard those we seek to support in the disability space.
The regulator alleges destination accounts included Sportsbet, TABTouch and Oz Lotto
