Chung Chak \u201cJohn\u201d Lee allegedly laundered money earned from drugs at Crown Resorts’ Melbourne property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Thailand.- A man suspected of money laundering at Crown Resorts<\/strong> Melbourne <\/strong>has been arrested in Thailand.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chung Chak \u201cJohn\u201d Lee<\/strong> is accused of participating in an organised crime group known as “The Company”<\/strong> which officials believe was responsible for 70 per cent of the methamphetamine entering Australia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lee allegedly directed a gambling tour business which partnered with Crown Resorts<\/strong> and used the company’s Melbourne casino to launder millions accumulated through the sale of drugs in 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Media outlets and the authorities learned of the alleged operations in 2019, <\/strong>leading to launch of the Bergin inquiry<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in New South Wales. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The New South Wales (NSW)\u00a0Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0will publish the final report<\/a><\/em><\/strong> from its inquiry by February 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chung Chak \u201cJohn\u201d Lee allegedly laundered money earned from drugs at Crown Resorts’ Melbourne property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The arrest of Chung Chak \u201cJohn\u201d Lee in Thailand, linked to alleged money laundering at Crown Resorts' Melbourne property via a gambling tour business, underscores critical governance and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance deficiencies. This development is a direct consequence of the 2019 revelations that prompted the New South Wales Bergin inquiry, whose final report is imminent.","focusai_entities":"Chung Chak \u201cJohn\u201d Lee, Crown Resorts, The Company, New South Wales Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority","focusai_location":"Thailand, Melbourne, New South Wales, Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Bergin Inquiry Mandates?","query":"What specific governance reforms will the Bergin inquiry mandate for Crown Resorts to retain its NSW license?"},{"label":"AML\/CTF Framework Impact?","query":"How will this arrest influence the ongoing regulatory assessments of other Australian casino operators' AML\/CTF frameworks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[14657,229,512],"class_list":["post-14303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-crown-resorts","tag-gambling","tag-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14303"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14323,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14303\/revisions\/14323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}