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Some of Australia’s biggest retailers, including Coles, Bunnings and Amazon, have been drawn into investigations into suspected foreign worker exploitation and a multimillion-dollar tax evasion scandal involving a booming bikie-linked security company and a shadow workforce of thousands of security guards.
The retail giants using MA Services Group’s security guards have joined its other clients – including the Australian Grand Prix Corporation, several AFL clubs and government agencies and departments – in scrambling to deal with their exposure to growing investigations into the company’s alleged malpractice.
Coles has become the first major player to move, announcing on Wednesday afternoon that it had launched an inquiry.
MA Services is part of a web of companies subject to separate investigations, including by the Tax Office and liquidators, over suspected involvement in a tax rort and worker exploitation scheme. Sources close to the liquidation are calling…