Star may have broken NSW by allowing high-roller junket operator Suncity to run its own casino within Star’s harbourside property.
, breached anti-money laundering measures, may have evaded taxes and facilitated $900 million of banned gambling transactions through its controversial China UnionPay scheme.Ms Sharp submitted to the inquiry that Star could be in breach of the Unlawful Gambling Act 1998 because it helped Suncity run a “casino within a casino” by allowing Suncity staff to operate its own cage for high rollers to play a “game of chance”.
“It’s open to find that it was unlawful by dint of section 12.1A to assist in organising an unlawful game... in Salon 95 of baccarat because the promotion of the game was not by the casino operator,” Ms Sharp told the review. “There are some pathways by which it can be said that The Star ... contravened statutory provisions in permitting a pseudo cage to be operated not by it in Salon 95,” Ms Sharp said.Ms Sharp also rebutted Star’s claim that its UnionPay scheme did not involve “significantly elevated risk from a money laundering and counter-terrorism financing perspective”.
“The effect of that process, Mr Bell, is that the cheque gave the appearance that Mr Lee had obtained his money from the casino, when in fact the source of funds was a bank account in China, being the one linked to the China UnionPay card,” she said.
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