It was the kind of news that should have spelt big trouble for James Packer’s Crown casino empire.
In September 2014, Four Corners revealed Crown’s joint venture in Macau, Melco Crown, was bringing in high rollers from mainland China using junket operators with links to organised crime triad gangs notorious for laundering drug money and the proceeds of sex trafficking, as well as for violent debt collection.
The junket operators included Suncity, long identified by law enforcement agencies around the world as having Triad ties.
Four Corners revealed it was “not just running some of Melco Crown’s VIP rooms in Macau it’s bringing Chinese high rollers to James Packer’s Crown Casinos in Australia”.
The fallout from these bombshell revelat…
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