{"id":110462,"date":"2019-07-28T16:29:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T23:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=110462"},"modified":"2019-07-28T16:34:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T23:34:17","slug":"former-crown-resorts-employee-speaks-out-about-china-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/former-crown-resorts-employee-speaks-out-about-china-imprisonment\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Crown Resorts Employee Speaks Out About 2017 China Imprisonment, Claims She Refused Hush Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

An ex-employee of Crown Resorts who was among those arrested and later imprisoned<\/a> in China in 2017 for illegally marketing gambling to Chinese citizens has broken her silence on her ordeal and the events that led up to it.<\/p>\n

\"Crown
Jenny Jiang is the first of 19 people arrested in China in 2016 for marketing Crown Resorts services to Chinese high rollers to speak out. She claims she was offered $60,000 by Crown for her silence. (Image: Nine Network)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jenny Jiang was among 19 of the Australian casino giant\u2019s employees and former employees who were detained in a series of raids across China in October 2016.<\/p>\n

Most were released after 10 months, but the incident severely embarrassed Crown.<\/p>\n

It forced the company to abandon a VIP marketing program in China that was generating billions in revenues for the company\u2019s Australian casinos.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Crown initiated significant corporate restructure and completely deserted its ambitions<\/a> for international expansion.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Jiang and her colleagues\u2019 efforts to attract wealthy Chinese whales to Crown properties generated $15 billion for the James Packer-controlled company \u2013 and that was just from two cities, Shanghai and Wuhan.<\/p>\n

Haunted by Incarceration <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Speaking to Australian current affairs program 60 Minutes<\/em>, Jiang described the illegal setup as a Wolf of Wall Street<\/em>-style operation, with huge bonuses and vacations to Las Vegas on offer for China-based staff who could lure high rollers to the Crown\u2019s VIP baccarat tables.<\/p>\n

But Jiang said she will always be haunted by the ten months she spent incarcerated among \u201cdrug dealers, pickpockets and prostitutes,\u201d in a state of perpetual fear, isolated from the outside world and not knowing how long her confinement would last.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a really horrible memory. The saddest thing is you couldn\u2019t reach out to your family. You couldn\u2019t hear your relatives\u2019 voice and you don\u2019t know how much they worry about you.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trailers for Saturday\u2019s 60 Minutes<\/em> program had been airing on the Nine Network all week, promising an unspecified expos\u00e9 that would be \u201ca story so important it can\u2019t be missed,\u201d which was \u201cset to rock the foundations of Australia.”<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the show, many Australians hit social media to suggest the trailers had been breathtaking in their hyperbole. But while the revelations contained in the broadcast ultimately failed to \u201crock\u201d Australia, they will heap further embarrassment on Crown Resorts.<\/p>\n

Much of the show focused on the company\u2019s business links with allegedly triad-linked Macau-based junket operations.<\/p>\n

Big Reveal?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

But the Asian-facing casino sector\u2019s relationship with the junkets is no secret. And while the junket industry was certainly once controlled by the triads, it’s unclear how much influence they have in Macau\u2019s more strictly regulated market today.<\/p>\n

60 Minutes<\/em> revealed that a triad conglomerate, which it referred to as \u201cThe Company,\u201d had its fingers in junket operations. According to one former police officer, the group is also responsible for up to 70 percent of all drugs trafficked into Australia over the past 20 years.<\/p>\n

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A massive criminal enterprise like The Company needs a massive money laundering operation to clean its drug money — and one such operative was Hong Kong-based junket operator Roy Moo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Moo was an authorised representative of the Ang Junket Group. The Ang Group helped bring Asian visitors to the Crown Casino Melbourne and Moo conducted financial transactions using a Crown Patrons Identity.<\/p>\n

In mid-2013, he was convicted of laundering hundreds of millions of The Company’s drug money through the Crown.<\/p>\n

By his own admission, the money was given to Moo because of his \u201ccontacts at Crown Casino, mutual trust,\u201d and because \u201cit was easier than using a bank.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crown Defends Itself<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Jiang told 60 Minutes<\/em> that several months after Moo’s conviction, Crown ramped up pressure on the China-based marketeers to find VIPs.<\/p>\n

This may have been a reaction to the Moo case, which was widely reported in Australian media at the time — a decision by Crown Resorts top brass to do its Chinese marketing \u201cin house\u201d rather than relying on the junkets.<\/p>\n

It may also have been a calculated strategy to mop up Chinese whales at a time when Beijing\u2019s \u201canti-corruption\u201d drive was scaring them away<\/a> from Macau.<\/p>\n

A Crown spokesperson told The Age<\/em> that the company does not \u201ccomment on its business operations with particular individuals or businesses,\u201d adding that it has a comprehensive anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing program in place, which is subject to regulatory supervision.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It also “refutes any suggestion that it knowingly exposed its staff to the risk of detention in China.”<\/p>\n

Jiang, who is the first of the 19 to speak publicly of her ordeal, claims otherwise.<\/p>\n

She says that on her release she was offered $60,000 by Crown for her silence but declined the hush money. She told 60 Minutes<\/em> she has withdrawn from friends and sometimes feels overcome by shame because of her imprisonment, and constantly apologizes to her husband for bringing the stigma on the family.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause you married me, you get a criminal wife. I felt really shamed about that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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