A Danish disability assistance company exposed in a recent investigation now faces potential shutdown. Authorities have recommended revoking the firm's operating license after it failed to submit required financial documents for over a year.
The Social Services Supervision agency has moved to strip BPA Pro Team of its approval to operate. Officials determined the company is no longer financially solvent after reviewing a 13-page notification from October 9.
For more than 14 months, despite repeated reminders, the agency has not received the necessary financial statements and information from the company. This raises serious doubts about whether the firm's finances are stable enough to continue operations.
The company's director, John Hansen, was previously exposed for taking his taxpayer-funded assistance program on extended stays to Dubai against regulations. Investigations also revealed the firm had cheated both disability helpers and Odense Municipality.
Multiple municipalities have tried for years to warn the supervision agency about double billing, incorrect invoices, and missing financial reports. The supervision agency claimed it couldn't act on these warnings in a controversial interview.
As an approved BPA company, BPA Pro Team had permission to manage personal assistance schemes for disabled citizens nationwide. The company received funds from municipalities and was responsible for hiring and paying citizens' personal assistants.
Since 2020, BPA Pro Team has received over 200 million kroner from Danish municipalities to employ and pay disability helpers. Each year, companies must submit a consolidated, audited financial statement to the supervision agency.
Citizen-Controlled Personal Assistance (BPA) is a support scheme that allows citizens with extensive and permanent disabilities to live independent, ordinary lives. Municipalities grant BPA schemes to citizens, providing funds to hire personal assistants.
Citizens can choose to have a company manage their BPA scheme, handling employment, wages, and administration of helpers. This allows citizens to focus on daily life without handling employer responsibilities.
Companies must annually submit accounts showing that municipal funds went to disability helpers and that citizens received their entitled assistance.
Despite now being in October 2025, BPA Pro Team still hasn't delivered acceptable financial statements for either 2023 or 2024. The agency first requested the 2023 accounts in August last year.
Throughout 2025, despite repeated reminders, the agency hasn't received proper financial statements containing information about assets, liabilities, and results.
The challenges don't stop there. The supervision agency also requested documentation for nearly 1.5 million kroner that BPA Pro Team spent on "development costs" in 2023 and 2024.
BPA Pro Team refused to release this, claiming it was sensitive accounting material that could cause "competitive damage" if disclosed.
On October 9, the agency's patience ran out. BPA Pro Team was notified that its approval would be revoked because the agency "has repeatedly requested to receive audited accounts and other material for our supervision of BPA Pro Team ApS. This has still not happened."
A review of the process shows the Social Services Supervision agency spent 14 months unsuccessfully trying to get relevant information from BPA Pro Team. During this period, municipalities paid over 50 million kroner to John Hansen's company.
Supervision head Line Hessellund said the agency "has acted as quickly as possible." She explained that the law doesn't set a deadline for when BPA companies must submit annual accounts. They must be submitted when the account audit is completed.
"This timing can depend on factors like staggered financial years, auditor processing time, and the scheme itself," Hessellund said, "making it difficult for social supervision agencies to obtain audited accounts from BPA employer companies."
In September 2023, the supervision agency raised the question of how to handle missing annual accounts from BPA employer companies when it's impossible to know when the audit is finished.
The ministry responded that the agency could ask companies about expected audit completion and then remind them about accounts if not submitted "within reasonable time."
BPA Pro Team has now been offered a dialogue meeting with the supervision agency.
"We are obliged to enter into dialogue with the company when we become concerned about whether the company still meets the conditions that are a prerequisite for approval," Hessellund stated.
Attempts to get comments from John Hansen of BPA Pro Team were unsuccessful before publication deadline.
The company's refusal to provide basic financial transparency while continuing to receive public funds shows serious governance problems that ultimately hurt disabled citizens who depend on these services.