He said there had been reports in the Hong Kong media about the organised crime connections of Suncity, including the CEO, Alvin Chau. “For all these reasons, organised crime has been involved in junkets for many years,” he said. The enforcement of gaming debts is illegal in China. Reports also alleged that Crown’s casinos were used to launder money.īromberg told the inquiry there was substantial work by academics which linked Macau’s junkets – organisations which bring high rollers to overseas casinos – to the triads.īromberg said that as well as organising travel, junket operators arranged prostitutes and narcotics for their clientele and also provided cross-border finance and enforced debts. Reports in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age last year alleged that Crown Resorts, part-owned by one of Australia’s richest men, James Packer, was using junkets backed by Asia’s most powerful organised crime syndicates as part of its program to attract Chinese high rollers to its casinos.
