Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs The company that has gone into administration controls only four of the Victorian Genius centres – at Newcomb, Mont Albert, Beaumaris and Reservoir – and another two that had not opened (at Eumemmerring and Cranbourne West).Other Genius centres in Melbourne – at Ashwood, Altona North and Taylors Lakes – are operated by other companies within the network of corporate interests controlled by Genius owner Darren Misquitta, whose current whereabouts is unknown.Genius staff, who were asked, say they have not seen the entrepreneur since mid-2024. He has not responded to multiple attempts by The Age to contact him. The head of the United Workers’ Union – which is suing Misquitta and three of his companies for more than $7 million in allegedly unpaid superannuation – says the businessman has “disappeared from the face of the Earth”.When The Age on Monday visited the Misquitta family home, a multimillion-dollar Toorak mansion owned by the businessman’s wife, the property was boarded-up and did not appear to be lived in.Residents of the exclusive suburb said they had not seen the entrepreneur or his family for some time.The company forced into administration, Vertical 4, was previously called Genius Learning, lists Misquitta as company director and secretary, and is registered to the Toorak Road address.LoadingLast month, creditors of another Misquitta-controlled childcare company called Horizontal 1 were advised by liquidator Paul Vartelas that he believed Misquitta, as company director, had breached his statutory obligations by allowing the company to accrue debts while already insolvent.“It is my view that the director breached his obligations … by allowing the company to trade while insolvent,” Vartelas wrote in a report to creditors that has also been lodged with the corporate regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.“My investigations … are currently ongoing.”
