{"id":31356,"date":"2022-07-01T05:57:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T08:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=31356"},"modified":"2022-07-01T13:02:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T16:02:25","slug":"south-australia-to-launch-independent-review-into-skycity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/south-australia-to-launch-independent-review-into-skycity","title":{"rendered":"South Australia to launch independent review into SkyCity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South Australia\u2019s Liquor and Gambling regulator has announced it is commissioning an independent review of Adelaide&#8217;s SkyCity casino to analyse if it is still suitable to hold its casino licence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.- The investigations into Australian casino operators\u00a0continue, and now it&#8217;s the turn of <strong>SkyCity<\/strong>. South Australia has announced an independent probe of the operator&#8217;s suitability to continue holding a casino licence in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation follows on the heels of public inquiries into first <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/ilga-crown-resorts-unsuitable-to-operate-barangaroo-casino\" target=\"_blank\">Crown Resorts<\/a> and most recently the Star Entertainment Group in other states. South Australia\u2019s Liquor and Gambling regulator has announced that the Honourable Brian Martin AO QC will lead the state&#8217;s investigation and report back to the liquor and gambling commissioner <strong>Dini Soulio<\/strong> by 1 February next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soulio\u00a0said the aim was to &#8220;ensure that the way that SkyCity operates demonstrates that the licensee is still suitable to hold the casino licence in South Australia.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said: &#8220;Commissions of Inquiry have been undertaken in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia into the casinos operating or proposing to operate in those states and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/queenslands-review-into-star-entertainment-to-start-in-july\" target=\"_blank\">a further inquiry is about to be commenced in Queensland<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SkyCity said it will fully cooperate with the review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year,\u00a0the financial crimes watchdog <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australian-casinos-investigated-over-aml-compliance\" target=\"_blank\">AUSTRAC<\/a>\u00a0also launched an investigation into Australia\u2019s three main casino operators \u2013\u00a0<strong>SkyCity, Star Entertainment Group <\/strong>and <strong>Crown Resorts<\/strong> \u2013 after it detected that their\u00a0<strong>counter-terrorism funding (CTF)<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>anti-money laundering (AML) programmes<\/strong>\u00a0were unsatisfactory.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AUSTRAC also started to investigate<strong>\u00a0a compliance assessment<\/strong>\u00a0about how SkyCity managed high-risk and politically exposed customers between July 2015 and June 2016 and between July 2018 and June 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SkyCity to appoint new non-executive directors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>SkyCity chair\u00a0<strong>Julian Cook<\/strong>\u00a0said the company was restructuring its board committee structure and intends to appoint Kate Hughes as chair of a new Risk and Compliance Committee expected to be established later this year.\u00a0The company also announced the appointment of Glenn Davis as non-executive director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cook said: \u201cKate and Glenn are experienced professionals and bring considerable expertise to the SkyCity Board\u00a0across a diverse range of sectors and industries. We are delighted that they have agreed to join the SkyCity Board.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Australia\u2019s Liquor and Gambling regulator has announced it is commissioning an independent review of Adelaide&#8217;s SkyCity casino to analyse if it is still suitable to hold its casino licence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":24747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156,158],"tags":[1137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31356"}],"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=31356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31362,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31356\/revisions\/31362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}