A gambling “whale” with underworld links has revealed how The Star gave him benefits worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to lure him to gamble in Queensland after he was banned from Sydney and Melbourne casinos. | EXCLUSIVE by ageinvestigates
The Star Gold Coast casino in Broadbeach, Queensland.
He said he was not the only big-time gambler enticed to Star’s Queensland casinos, despite bans in NSW and in Victoria, where he is self-excluded. “Every excluded player from Melbourne and Sydney has been up there. There are a lot of people in there who have done a lot worse than me,” he said. “We knew [the alleged mafia boss] was a good punter but was banned in Melbourne from gambling. So we would say to his friend, ‘can you get him to come to Queensland with you?’” the insider said.The revelations raise serious questions about Star’s conduct in Queensland, and the long-standing failure of the state’s police commissioners to use their powers to exclude high-risk gamblers. The Queensland Police have banned only two players, including Khoury, with both bans being issued this year.
Police sources, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to comment publicly, said the organisation most culpable for failing to oversee Star in Queensland was the state regulator, the Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation.“It’s a joke that one of the states most exposed to organised crime infiltration in casinos is holding off a public inquiry,” one police source said.
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