Aussie citizens have officially been charged<\/a> and are likely to spend the next six months in the gruesome Chinese prison system.<\/p>\nVIP manager Jason O’Connor is one of those three Crown employees. Reports have surfaced that Crown was routinely marketing their Australian casinos to Chinese nationals and organizing trips Down Under.<\/p>\n
Chinese law bars companies from marketing gambling games to its citizens. But that\u00a0was a risk Crown was apparently willing to take in order to grab the billions of VIP wagers no longer being placed in Macau.<\/p>\n
Crown hasn’t released any statement regarding the formal charging of three of its Australian employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Macau is in the midst of its third straight year of gaming revenue declines and will post yet another consecutive down year when 2016 is all said and done. China’s wishes to impede money moving out from its mainland through the special administrative gaming zone have been successful, and that’s forced many casino resorts in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":42199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,60,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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