{"id":29518,"date":"2022-05-03T10:51:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T13:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=29518"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:03:30","slug":"ccc-hearing-on-ipi-casino-licence-postponed-to-may-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/ccc-hearing-on-ipi-casino-licence-postponed-to-may-24","title":{"rendered":"CCC hearing on IPI casino licence postponed to May 24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Commonwealth Casino Commission has postponed the hearing to decide the fate of the company\u2019s exclusive casino licence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Northern Mariana Islands.-\u00a0Andrew Yeom<\/strong>, CCC\u2019s executive director, has announced that the hearing to define whether Imperial Pacific International’s casino licence will be permanently revoked has been postponed until May 24. It was\u00a0initially scheduled for today (May 3)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October 2021, Yeom\u00a0filed five complaints<\/a>\u00a0against Imperial Pacific International seeking\u00a0to revoke its exclusive casino licence.<\/strong> The licence was suspended<\/a>\u00a0indefinitely as the operator failed to comply with regulatory orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commonwealth Casino Commission chairman Edward DeLeon Guerrero has asked the executive directors of the CCC and IPI to share a full list of all witnesses, evidence, and any other material that may be relevant to the hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNMI Court orders payment of legal fees for 7 workers who sued IPI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona <\/strong>has awarded $687,793.70 in legal fees to seven workers<\/a> who were employed by former IPI contractors and subcontractors, MCC International and Gold Mantis. The workers filed a lawsuit against the companies in December 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March 2019, amendment proceedings were filed against MCC International Saipan Ltd. Co. and IPI as defendants also added a forced labour charge under the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manglona stated: \u201cThe default judgment entered against IPI on May 26, 2021 shall be amended to reflect the amount of $5,430,595.58, plus $687,793.70 in attorneys\u2019 fees, plus post-judgment interest at the applicable federal rate on May 26, 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Commonwealth Casino Commission has postponed the hearing to decide the fate of the company\u2019s exclusive casino licence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19434,"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 Commonwealth Casino Commission has postponed the hearing to determine the permanent revocation of Imperial Pacific International's exclusive casino license in the Northern Mariana Islands until May 24. This follows the indefinite suspension of the license in October 2021 due to regulatory non-compliance. Concurrently, a CNMI Court has ordered IPI to pay significant legal fees and damages stemming from a forced labor lawsuit against its former contractors.","focusai_entities":"Commonwealth Casino Commission, Imperial Pacific International, Andrew Yeom, Edward DeLeon Guerrero, MCC International, Gold Mantis, Ramona V. Manglona, MCC International Saipan Ltd. Co.","focusai_location":"Northern Mariana Islands, CNMI","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IPI's Financial Viability?","query":"What is the current financial standing of Imperial Pacific International, and how might the accumulated legal judgments and potential license revocation impact its ability to meet outstanding obligations or attract new capital?"},{"label":"Regulatory Precedent?","query":"What precedent does the Commonwealth Casino Commission's handling of Imperial Pacific International's non-compliance and potential license revocation set for other operators within the jurisdiction or for future market entrants?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156],"tags":[14213,22674],"class_list":["post-29518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news","tag-imperial-pacific","tag-ipi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29518","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=29518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29524,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29518\/revisions\/29524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}