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<p>ZZUAngelita: Created page with &quot;&lt;br&gt;Crown refused to follow the Victorian gaming watchdog's advice to increase scrutiny on its use of junket groups for fear of losing cashed-up clientele, a royal commission...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>&lt;br&gt;Crown refused to follow the Victorian gaming watchdog's advice to increase scrutiny on its use of junket groups for fear of losing cashed-up clientele, a royal commission has heard.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The inquiry into whether Crown remains suitable to keep its licence for its Melbourne operations was on Tuesday told junket operators brought customers to the casino in exchange for a cut of their multi-million dollar losses.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Crown would be informed how much money the junkets had to play to with, but the groups' individual players were afforded a level of &quot;anonymity&quot;, counsel assisting Adrian Finanzio SC told the second day of public hearings.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Mr Finanzio said this exposed Crown to the risk of money laundering.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation in July 2018 recommended that Crown set up procedures to create more transparency around individual players' financial contributions to junket groups.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;But the one-year deadline to enact these changes, which Mr Finanzio described as &quot;necessary and obvious&quot;, passed without any substantive action taken.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Former Federal Court judge Raymond Finkelstein QC, who is overseeing the royal commission, asked VCGLR licence and management audit team head Jason Cremona why Crown resisted following the recommendation.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;I have views that if Crown were required to obtain information from junket players ... that could be reason for them not to gamble at the Melbourne casino and look elsewhere,&quot; Mr Cremona said.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;After hearing this, Mr Finkelstein said: &quot;It's the only reason - I believe so, yes.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Mr Cremona also said Crown threatened to call Victoria's gaming minister after the VCGLR probed its lack of response to the recommendation in the 2018 licence review.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;He told the hearing that by May 2019, less than two months out from the review's deadline, &quot;alarms bells were ringing fairly loudly&quot;.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The VCGLR that month wrote to Crown, expressing these concerns, only for a representative from the gaming giant to reference calling Victoria's gaming minister to &quot;complain&quot;.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Mr Cremona earlier told the hearing that he received no response from Crown until January 2019, when the James Packer-backed group said it had been discussing the matter with financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;But in a private meeting between AUSTRAC and the VCGLR in February 2019, it was revealed AUSTRAC discussions with Crown had been only &quot;brief&quot; and &quot;potentially unrelated&quot; to the anti-money laundering recommendation.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;When asked by Mr Finkelstein &quot;how many minutes&quot; it would take to enact the review's recommendation, Mr Cremona said &quot;a small amount of time&quot;.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The inquiry on Monday heard Crown lied to the VCGLR about what it knew of China's foreign casino crackdown after its own staff were arrested overseas.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The regulator looked into the arrests of 19 [http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/?q=Crown%20staff Crown staff] in China in 2016.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;All were charged with gambling promotion offences, and remain the subject of an ongoing class action against Crown.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The royal commission was set up by the Andrews Labor government after a NSW inquiry found Crown unsuitable to run its newly built casino in Sydney's Barangaroo.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;That inquiry found [http://www.britannica.com/search?query=Crown%20facilitated Crown facilitated] money laundering, partnered with junket operators with links to organised crime groups even after being made aware of these connections, and exposed staff to the risk of detention in China.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Other witnesses set to be questioned this week include Crown's head of financial crime and money laundering reporting, Nick Stokes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about the place and how to use live casino online ([https://cheapyogabelts.blogspot.com/ cheapyogabelts.blogspot.com]), you can call us at our web-page.</div>

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