Crown Resorts<\/a> has heard from Timothy Bryant, a compliance officer at the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR), who spoke about the incident in which Crown execs were arrested in China in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBryant told the inquiry that the investigation of the incident “was particularly protracted because of Crown’s defensive position”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said he believed that in some interviews Crown Resorts had lied to him <\/strong>as to “what they were not aware of or were aware of.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nHe also said: \u201cCrown\u2019s risk management structure was inadequate<\/strong> to the extent that it failed to identify the risks associated with the operating environment in China.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt was also claimed that Crown Resorts did not give correct information to the VCGLR <\/strong>and delayed providing documents and some reports during the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAlthough the VCGLR <\/strong>has the power to refer people or companies who fail to properly comply with its document requests to the Victorian supreme court for prosecution<\/strong>, the regulator did not do so at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBryant said: “I think now it is something the commission would be considering <\/strong>as part of our final report and our final outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nVictoria\u2019s Royal Commission is chaired by former Federal Court judge Raymond Finkelstein<\/strong>. It expects to report back to the Victorian government by August 1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRoyal Commission receives written submissions on problem gambling at Crown<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Victoria\u2019s Royal Commission has received several written submissions accusing Crown Resorts of causing gambling addiction.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nAi Nguyen<\/strong>, a gambling counsellor at the Australian Vietnamese Women’s Association, said Crown Resorts’ 24\/7 operating hours<\/strong>, its rewards system and a weak self-exclusion programme <\/strong>failed to help people with gambling problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Victorian Arabic Social Services community support group <\/strong>also said that some of its clients who used the self-exclusion programme reported that the casino allowed them to enter areas they were meant to be barred from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Timothy Bryant, a compliance officer at the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR), said Crown Resorts lied to him about the arrest of 19 Crown executives in China in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Victoria's Royal Commission into Crown Resorts has heard testimony alleging the operator lied to the VCGLR during an investigation into the 2016 China arrests, citing inadequate risk management and delayed document provision. Concurrently, the Commission received submissions accusing Crown of facilitating problem gambling through its 24\/7 operations, rewards system, and ineffective self-exclusion program. The VCGLR is now considering potential prosecution following its initial inaction.","focusai_entities":"Timothy Bryant, Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR), Crown Resorts, Raymond Finkelstein, Ai Nguyen, Australian Vietnamese Women\u2019s Association, Victorian Arabic Social Services","focusai_location":"Victoria, Australia, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.98), compliance_legal (0.97), operator_casino (0.92), product_ux (0.75), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.96), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"VCGLR Enforcement Gaps?","query":"What specific governance framework deficiencies within the VCGLR allowed Crown Resorts' alleged non-compliance and delayed document provision to go unprosecuted at the time, and what reforms are being considered?"},{"label":"Crown's License Impact?","query":"Given the findings of the Royal Commission regarding alleged deceit and inadequate responsible gambling controls, what is the probability and potential scope of regulatory sanctions, including license conditions or revocation, for Crown Resorts' Victorian operations?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,157],"tags":[23825,14657],"class_list":["post-17938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-business-news","tag-crown-melbourne","tag-crown-resorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17938","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17938"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17966,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17938\/revisions\/17966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}