{"id":18410,"date":"2021-05-28T15:37:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T15:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=18410"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:06:23","slug":"imperial-pacific-appeals-gaming-licence-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/imperial-pacific-appeals-gaming-licence-suspension","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Pacific appeals gaming licence suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Imperial Pacific International’s licence was suspended by the Commonwealth Casino Commission in April after the company admitted violating five regulatory orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Northern Mariana Islands.-\u00a0Imperial Pacific International\u2019s (IPI)\u00a0<\/strong>has appealed against the decision of the Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC) to order the indefinite suspension of\u00a0its gaming licence<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juan T. Lizama, IPI’s lawyer, filed the appeal, and the\u00a0CCC commissioners has agreed to make a technical amendment<\/strong>\u00a0to the order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Saipan Tribune newspaper, assistant attorney general Michael Ernest, counsel for CCC executive director Andrew Yeom, reported a\u00a0technical error in the CCC board\u2019s order against IPI<\/strong>. Ernest asked the board to reconsider the final order<\/strong>\u00a0in order to correct the error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Commonwealth Casino Commission board has also ordered\u00a0IPI to pay a penalty of US$6.6m<\/strong>, an annual casino exclusive licence fee of US$15.5m and\u00a0annual casino regulatory fees of US$3.1m<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ernest said the case is now with the Superior Court<\/strong>. He added that the commission probably does not have jurisdiction to further amend the order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: “I believe\u00a0there may be a motion that we can file in the Superior Court\u00a0<\/strong>to allow it to send it back down just for the technical correction.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC), Imperial Pacific International violated five orders\u00a0<\/strong>including a failure to pay\u00a0its US$3.1m annual regulatory fee\u00a0<\/strong>in 2020 and failure to\u00a0comply with an order to settle debts<\/strong>\u00a0with vendors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imperial Pacific International’s licence was suspended by the Commonwealth Casino Commission in April after the company admitted violating five regulatory orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Imperial Pacific International (IPI) has appealed the indefinite suspension of its gaming license by the Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC) in the Northern Mariana Islands. The suspension follows IPI's admitted violations of five regulatory orders, including unpaid fees and vendor debts, with the CCC also imposing significant penalties and outstanding fees. The case has now been escalated to the Superior Court, with a technical amendment to the original order being considered.","focusai_entities":"Imperial Pacific International, Commonwealth Casino Commission, Juan T. Lizama, Michael Ernest, Andrew Yeom, Saipan Tribune, Superior Court","focusai_location":"Northern Mariana Islands, Saipan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IPI's Financial Viability?","query":"What is the current financial standing of Imperial Pacific International, and how will the imposed penalties and ongoing legal costs impact its long-term operational viability and ability to attract future investment?"},{"label":"Regulatory Precedent?","query":"What precedent does the Commonwealth Casino Commission's indefinite license suspension and subsequent legal appeal set for future regulatory enforcement actions against other operators in the Northern Mariana Islands or similar jurisdictions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,439],"tags":[23908,14213],"class_list":["post-18410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-legal-news","tag-gaming-regulation","tag-imperial-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410","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=18410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18438,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410\/revisions\/18438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}