The WA Royal Commission has heard that Crown Perth breached lockdown rules by keeping its VIP room open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Australia.- A new headache has arrived for\u00a0Crown Resorts<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0Melissa Smith<\/strong>, director of casino operations for gaming machines at Crown Perth, jas admitted that the casino kept its high roller room open during a recent Covid-19 lockdown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to local media reports,\u00a0the VIP room operated between June 29 to July 3\u00a0<\/strong>while the state of Western Australia was under a lockdown imposed by the government. Smith told the WA Royal Commission\u00a0the main casino area was closed but that its Pearl Room remained open<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The government had stated at the time that\u00a0all gaming floors must temporarily shut <\/strong>and that the only exceptions could be those previously allowed by the WA Police. Smith was asked if Crown Perth had been allowed to keep its VIP room open but she was unable to demonstrate that to be the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0When the lockdown was declared,\u00a0Crown Perth issued a statement announcing that all gaming floors would be closed\u00a0<\/strong>and only restaurants, bars, banqueting and conference halls would remain open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the departures of Helen Coonan<\/a> and Xavier Walsh<\/a>, now Toni Korsanos has resigned as a Crown Resorts director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Through a press release,\u00a0the casino operator announced that Korsanos will step down\u00a0<\/strong>after the Annual General Meeting on October 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jane Halton, Crown\u2019s interim chairman<\/strong>, said: \u201cOn behalf of the Board, I would like to acknowledge and thank Mrs Korsanos for her valuable and significant contribution during her tenure as a Director of Crown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMrs Korsanos has provided stability and outstanding leadership and support to Crown as a Director and Chair of the People, Remuneration & Nomination and Audit & Corporate Governance committees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Korsanos joined Crown Resorts in 2018. Along with Jane Halton, she was one of only two directors who stuck through the operator\u2019s recent controversies and public inquires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The WA Royal Commission has heard that Crown Perth breached lockdown rules by keeping its VIP room open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Crown Perth admitted to the WA Royal Commission that its VIP Pearl Room remained operational during a state-mandated COVID-19 lockdown, contravening public health directives. Concurrently, Crown Resorts announced the resignation of director Toni Korsanos, adding to recent high-level executive departures amidst ongoing regulatory scrutiny. This incident further exacerbates governance concerns for the operator.","focusai_entities":"Crown Perth, Crown Resorts, Melissa Smith, WA Royal Commission, Toni Korsanos, Helen Coonan, Xavier Walsh, Jane Halton, WA Police","focusai_location":"Australia, Western Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Licensing Impact?","query":"What are the potential ramifications for Crown Perth's gaming license following the admission of operating a VIP room during a mandated lockdown, and how might this influence the WA Royal Commission's final recommendations?"},{"label":"Governance Frameworks?","query":"How will the continued executive turnover, including Toni Korsanos's resignation, impact Crown Resorts' ability to implement robust governance frameworks and restore regulatory confidence?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,28,158],"tags":[20215,23907],"class_list":["post-22890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-casino-news","category-slider-home","tag-crown-perth","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22890","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=22890"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22902,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22890\/revisions\/22902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Toni Korsanos resigns as Crown Resorts director<\/h2>\n\n\n\n