Under new leadership, financial crimes watchdog AUSTRAC has renewed its money laundering focus on gaming venues, noting the “billions” it believes is fed into machines by criminals. Responsible for preventing, detecting and responding to criminal abuse of the financial system, AUSTRAC has worked with the gambling sector, notably pubs and clubs, for years, to help […]
Documents newly tabled in NSW parliament are driving calls for investigation into the role – or at least insufficient diligence – suspected regarding money laundering at major Sydney clubs and pubs. The documents were made public this month following a request by Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann. They reportedly quote the then director of ILGA (Independent
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The NSW government has criticised and plans to investigate the practise of venues getting a ‘heads up’ on pending random inspections, furthering the anti-gaming debate as Australians baulk at the cashless economy. Documents by the NSW regulator, Liquor and Gaming, were tabled in parliament following requests by Independent MP Alex Greenwich. L&G’s written statement noted
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Following accusations made by independent MP Alex Greenwich, the NSW Crime Commission is investigating claims Liquor & Gaming withheld information pertinent to its inquiry into money laundering in pubs and clubs. After a high-profile 10-month investigation, the Islington Report was published in October, suggesting billions of dollars was being gambled through poker machines by criminals,
Inner West Council is working on lobbying the NSW State Government to apply even stricter reform to poker machine gambling at all gaming venues. Greens Councillor Liz Atkins and Independent Councillor Pauline Lockie are tabling the motion this week for Inner West Council (IWC) to petition both the Premier and Opposition Leader to introduce major
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A damning report has been issued on The Star casino, branding it “unsuitable” to hold its licence in light of a litany of breaches and continued arrogance. The much-anticipated report comes only weeks after the government pushed through new laws in response to the recent Bergin inquiry into Crown casinos, establishing the new Independent Casino
News has broken that ILGA’s data monitoring system has identified hundreds of what are dubbed “suspect transactions” at pubs and clubs, including outside of the cities, potentially boding a major reality check for authorities and industry. The information from the Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA) has prompted the apparent realisation that criminal gangs are
The hospitality industry and Associations are again defending the role of pubs and clubs in society, in light of the latest round of naïve finger-pointing by click-bait media. According to Nine Entertainment (the merged Channel 9 and Fairfax Media) the pub and club industries are in the middle of a money-laundering “scandal”. Bolstering the argument
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