{"id":34875,"date":"2022-10-27T16:36:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T19:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=34875"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:30:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:30:59","slug":"ipi-says-its-caught-up-with-payment-of-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/ipi-says-its-caught-up-with-payment-of-employees","title":{"rendered":"IPI says its caught up with payment of employees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>IPI has informed the Commonwealth Casino Commission that it&#8217;s now up to date with salary payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Northern Mariana Islands.- In its latest report to the Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC),&nbsp;<strong>Imperial Pacific International&nbsp;<\/strong>stated that it has paid all wages owed to its employees. The company currently has 10 employees, including six security guards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/ipi-now-has-only-seven-security-guards-in-saipan\" target=\"_blank\">some of the casino operator\u2019s security staff<\/a>&nbsp;stopped reporting for work due to payroll delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CCC has asked for Imperial Pacific International to be declared&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/ccc-wants-over-25m-from-ipi\" target=\"_blank\">not to have complied with a commission order<\/a>. It says the operator now owes $25.3m. The motion was filed by<strong>&nbsp;Keisha Blaise<\/strong>, assistant attorney general, who said the casino operator had failed to comply with the Commonwealth Casino Commission Order 2021-002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Mariana&#8217;s Variety, IPI has been \u201caggressively seeking investors to raise more capital, settle with creditors and CCC, and reopen as early as possible.&#8221; However, so far it has not been successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May, the company reported it had signed&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/imperial-pacific-claims-its-signed-a-deal-with-ih-group\" target=\"_blank\">a memorandum of agreement<\/a>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<strong>South Korea\u2019s IH Group<\/strong>&nbsp;to secure funding to help it reopen its casino in Garapan and pay some of its obligations, including payroll and outstanding payables to vendors. However, so far there has been no news regarding the agreement between the companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPI has informed the Commonwealth Casino Commission that it&#8217;s now up to date with salary payments.<\/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":"Imperial Pacific International (IPI) has informed the Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC) of settling all outstanding employee wages. Despite this, IPI faces a regulatory non-compliance motion from the CCC for failing to adhere to Order 2021-002, with $25.3 million owed, and its efforts to secure new investment for reopening its Garapan casino remain unconfirmed.","focusai_entities":"Imperial Pacific International, Commonwealth Casino Commission, Keisha Blaise, IH Group","focusai_location":"Northern Mariana Islands, Garapan, South Korea","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IPI's Reopening Viability?","query":"Given the ongoing regulatory non-compliance and unconfirmed funding, what is the realistic timeline and capital requirement for Imperial Pacific International to achieve operational reopening and satisfy all outstanding obligations?"},{"label":"CCC Enforcement Impact?","query":"What precedent does the Commonwealth Casino Commission's motion for non-compliance against IPI set for future regulatory enforcement actions within the Northern Mariana Islands' gaming jurisdiction?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,157],"tags":[24134],"class_list":["post-34875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-business-news","tag-imperial-pacific-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34875","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=34875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34905,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34875\/revisions\/34905"}],"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=34875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}