The 18-month long investigation against the Crown Resorts resulted into the Casino being found ‘unsuitable’ to hold the license to operate in New South Wales.
The enquiry was lead by former Supreme Court judge Patricia Bergin , who released the final report stating that Crown Resorts is “quite unsuitable” to hold a casino license in New South Wales.
The public inquiry against the casino operator was initiated on the counts of money laundering activities in Crown’s Melbourne and Perth casinos.
The allegations were that the said casinos were used in a money-laundering scheme and that the company had possible ties to criminal gangs through its junket operations.
As per Gambling Insider, Bergin said: “Any applicant for a casino license with the attributes of Crown’s stark realities of facilitating money laundering, exposing staff to the risk of detention in a foreign jurisdiction and pursuing commercial relationships with individuals with connections to Triads and organized crime groups would not be confident of a positive outcome. It is obvious that such attributes would render an applicant quite unsuitable to hold a casino license in New South Wales.”