{"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":"2026-04-23T07:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:14:12","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,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"South Australia's Liquor and Gambling regulator has initiated an independent review into SkyCity Adelaide's suitability to retain its casino licence, led by the Honourable Brian Martin AO QC. This probe follows similar inquiries into Crown Resorts and Star Entertainment Group, and previous AUSTRAC investigations into SkyCity's AML\/CTF compliance. SkyCity is cooperating and restructuring its board, appointing new non-executive directors and establishing a Risk and Compliance Committee.","focusai_entities":"SkyCity, South Australia\u2019s Liquor and Gambling regulator, Honourable Brian Martin AO QC, Dini Soulio, Crown Resorts, Star Entertainment Group, AUSTRAC, Julian Cook, Kate Hughes, Glenn Davis","focusai_location":"South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, Queensland","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (1.0), payments_fraud_aml (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Suitability Criteria Details?","query":"What are the specific criteria for 'suitability' that the Honourable Brian Martin AO QC will assess, and how do they align with or diverge from findings in other state inquiries into casino operators?"},{"label":"AML\/CTF Remediation Actions?","query":"Beyond board restructuring, what concrete operational and technological enhancements is SkyCity implementing to address the identified AML\/CTF deficiencies and high-risk customer management failures?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156,158],"tags":[1137],"class_list":["post-31356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news","category-slider-home","tag-skycity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31356","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=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}]}}