Inquiry hears building approval submission for a private gaming room failed to mention a window allowing junket operator to receive cash from players
A senior casino manager has admitted “knowingly misleading” thegaming regulator about how gambling junkets operated inside a private high-roller wagering room at The Star Sydney.
“You were accepting that nowhere in the submission was there any reference to the cage in Salon 95, or a buy in desk in Salon 95,” counsel assisting Nicholas Condylis said.Asked if the submission was misleading, Stevens said: “It doesn’t detail that the junket operator was receiving cash from the players … that the junket operator subsequently used to buy in to the rebate program with us.
“It appeared as though the service desk was operating as an unlawful cage,” Adam Bell SC, who is leading the investigation, put to the witness.He conceded that the casino had “very little control” over what happened in Salon 95, agreeing that it was an “incredible” situation to occur in a casino in NSW.
He also denied trying to mislead the regulator by failing to disclose a casino “workaround” in relation to the CUP card at any time in 2013 or 2014, saying he “did not deliberately choose not to disclose anything to them”.
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