{"id":50816,"date":"2017-05-22T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=50816"},"modified":"2017-05-22T16:45:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T23:45:27","slug":"korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean Gambler Charged with Laundering Dirty (and Smelly) Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a Korean high roller handed over AU$3.6 million ($2.7 million) at the VIP cage of the Star Casino in Brisbane, Australia, at the beginning of May, staff were almost certain something wasn\u2019t quite right. Something about the situation just smelled funny.<\/p>\n

\"Korean
Dirty Australian dollars: a gambler who turned up to a casino in Brisbane, Australia with $2.7 million in moldy cash was hauled in front of the courts this week. (Image: iStock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It turned out to be the AU$3.6 million, according to reports that was emanating a musty aroma, perhaps because it was covered in mold.<\/p>\n

This discovery led the staff to deduce it had not recently been withdrawn from a bank and was part of something more scandalous.<\/p>\n

Married father of two Byongsam Song, 43, was hauled in front of the courts this week, accused of attempting to launder dirty money, literally.<\/p>\n

Funny Money<\/b><\/h2>\n

According to documents filed by the Australian Federal Police to the Brisbane Supreme Court, the cash was vacuum-sealed, although casino staff noted that the rubber bands holding each $10,000 bundle of notes together were partially disintegrated.<\/p>\n

They also noted Song had transported the money to the casino in three large cardboard boxes and it was subsequently brought down to the casino floor from his room in \u201ccanvas bags.\u201d<\/p>\n

Song was officially charged with \u201cdealing with property reasonably suspected to be the proceeds of crime,\u201d a charge to which he is expected to plead not guilty.<\/p>\n

He claims that the cash was given to him by his boss, fellow Korean Wan Il Choi, 41, a Gold Coast millionaire, although he also told the police the cash had been brought to his room in suitcases by a man he had never met before named\u00a0Nicholas Losurdo.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, he told casino staff he had brought it with him from Korea.<\/p>\n

\n

Korean high roller Byongsam Song is accused of \u201cdealing with property reasonably suspected to be the proceeds of crime\u201d after presenting pungent money at an Australian casino.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Choi, who was in court as a witness, is also under suspicion, although no charges have been laid. Police said that the A$500,000 ($375,000) Choi deposited at the casino the previous day was also \u201csmelly, musty, with rubber bands that were disintegrating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Choi is in the the exports business, shipping meat products back to the mother country, and is understood to shortly be expanding into fish, according to a local press scoop. He also owns a cosmetics business in Korea, which is managed by Song.<\/p>\n

After hearing the character witness testimony from a \u201csenior Korean military officer,\u201d the judge released Song on A$200,000 bail, which was put up by Choi\u2019s wife, Eun Jung Jung, on the condition that he live with Choi and Jung at their home for the duration of his trial. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The case continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When a Korean high roller handed over AU$3.6 million ($2.7 million) at the VIP cage of the Star Casino in Brisbane, Australia, at the beginning of May, staff were almost certain something wasn\u2019t quite right. Something about the situation just smelled funny. It turned out to be the AU$3.6 million, according to reports that was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":50818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,21,10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nKorean Gambler Byongsam Song Charged with Laundering Dirty Money<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Korean high roller Byongsam Song is accused of \u201cdealing with property reasonably suspected to be the proceeds of crime\u201d after presenting money at casino.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Korean Gambler Byongsam Song Charged with Laundering Dirty Money\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Korean high roller Byongsam Song is accused of \u201cdealing with property reasonably suspected to be the proceeds of crime\u201d after presenting money at casino.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-05-23T00:00:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-05-22T23:45:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/452032535.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"612\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"459\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Casino.org Staff Writer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Casino.org Staff Writer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/\",\"name\":\"Korean Gambler Byongsam Song Charged with Laundering Dirty Money\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/452032535.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-05-23T00:00:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-05-22T23:45:27+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8c48bf89dc86da77b4d856c7b3b78d77\"},\"description\":\"Korean high roller Byongsam Song is accused of \u201cdealing with property reasonably suspected to be the proceeds of crime\u201d after presenting money at casino.\u00a0\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/452032535.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/452032535.jpg\",\"width\":612,\"height\":459,\"caption\":\"Dirty Australian dollars: a gambler who turned up to a casino in Brisbane, Australia with $2.7 million in moldy cash was hauled in front of the courts this week. (Image: iStock)\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Financial\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/financial\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Korean Gambler Charged with Laundering Dirty (and Smelly) Money\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Casino.org\",\"description\":\"Latest Casino and Gaming News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8c48bf89dc86da77b4d856c7b3b78d77\",\"name\":\"Casino.org Staff Writer\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0853bd574da5b217483afb1fbbee33a5?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0853bd574da5b217483afb1fbbee33a5?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Casino.org Staff Writer\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/author\/corg-staff-writer\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Korean Gambler Byongsam Song Charged with Laundering Dirty Money","description":"Korean high roller Byongsam Song is accused of \u201cdealing with property reasonably suspected to be the proceeds of crime\u201d after presenting money at casino.\u00a0","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Korean Gambler Byongsam Song Charged with Laundering Dirty Money","og_description":"Korean high roller Byongsam Song is accused of \u201cdealing with property reasonably suspected to be the proceeds of crime\u201d after presenting money at casino.\u00a0","og_url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/","og_site_name":"Casino.org","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews","article_published_time":"2017-05-23T00:00:03+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-05-22T23:45:27+00:00","og_image":[{"width":612,"height":459,"url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/452032535.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Casino.org Staff Writer","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Casino_Org","twitter_site":"@Casino_Org","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Casino.org Staff Writer","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/","name":"Korean Gambler Byongsam Song Charged with Laundering Dirty Money","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/452032535.jpg","datePublished":"2017-05-23T00:00:03+00:00","dateModified":"2017-05-22T23:45:27+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8c48bf89dc86da77b4d856c7b3b78d77"},"description":"Korean high roller Byongsam Song is accused of \u201cdealing with property reasonably suspected to be the proceeds of crime\u201d after presenting money at casino.\u00a0","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/452032535.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/452032535.jpg","width":612,"height":459,"caption":"Dirty Australian dollars: a gambler who turned up to a casino in Brisbane, Australia with $2.7 million in moldy cash was hauled in front of the courts this week. (Image: iStock)"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/korean-gambler-byongsam-song-charged-laundering-dirty-smelly-money\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Financial","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/financial\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Korean Gambler Charged with Laundering Dirty (and Smelly) Money"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/","name":"Casino.org","description":"Latest Casino and Gaming News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/8c48bf89dc86da77b4d856c7b3b78d77","name":"Casino.org Staff Writer","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0853bd574da5b217483afb1fbbee33a5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0853bd574da5b217483afb1fbbee33a5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Casino.org Staff Writer"},"url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/author\/corg-staff-writer\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}