Wan was arrested later that year on suspicion of the attempted car bombing of a local police chief. He was convicted of illegal gambling, loan sharking, and criminal association and sentenced to 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n
He was released in 2012 and reentered the junket business. In May 2015, he opened the Guoying VIP Club at L\u2019Arc Casino in Macau.<\/p>\n
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In December 2020, Wan was sanctioned by the US government. According to a statement from the Treasury Department at the time, he was still the head of the 14K. He had been spreading his criminal network across Southeast Asia and China\u2019s Belt and Road economic bloc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
As the licensing review begins in Queensland, Star Entertainment is still awaiting the outcome of a similar inquiry in New South Wales. Both were triggered by reports in the Australian media alleging Star wooed suspected criminals, foreign agents, and fraudsters to gamble at its casinos from at least 2014 to 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Star Entertainment\u2019s Queen\u2019s Wharf casino resort project in Brisbane, Queensland, is part-owned by a Hong Kong company with historical links to a notorious Triad boss. That\u2019s according to a report by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), which has linked the company, Chow Tai Fook, to the former leader of the 14K Triads, \u201cBroken Tooth\u201d Wan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":227909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69069],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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