If the Supreme Court decides to allow the Crown Resorts probe to continue, the next batch of scheduled witnesses will be critical to the inquiry outcome. Employees from both Crown and Melco will go before the authority to reveal insight into the companies’ inner workings.<\/p>\n
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Crown founder and former CEO James Packer, as well as Ho, could be called. The two billionaires are former business partners who separated in 2017 following numerous Crown employees being arrested in China and charged with gambling promotion offenses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Gambling is illegal everywhere in China other than its Special Administrative Region of Macau. It’s long been suspected that part of Crown’s business model is catering to wealthy Chinese citizens. But marketing gambling activities is illegal in the People’s Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Crown Resorts inquiry in New South Wales to determine whether the casino operator is suitable to hold a gaming license in the state has been suspended amid an ongoing court appeal. The NSW Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA) continued its probe into Crown this week with witness testimony regarding the company’s business practices. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":128388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69069,13592],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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