Regardless of who wrote the report, in the end all junket regulations were repealed. 'There was a notification from, I believe, Mick Connolly to Nick Toyne requesting him to prepare an agenda paper for the commission, and the next handwritten note was from Nick to say that had been done,' Mr Radis said. Two days later another former inspector Leigh Radis, who currently holds the rather convoluted title of the department's manager of industry, regulation and education for liquor and gambling, said otherwise. On Tuesday, the inquiry heard from former regulator and casino inspector, Nick Toyne, who denied writing the report recommending the change, despite his name appearing as the paper's author. Then in 2010, upon a request from Crown, a recommendation to remove the rules was put to the GWC in a report. In 1999, quite strict junket regulations were enacted to limit risk. Junkets have long been rumoured to have links to criminal activity and money laundering, with evidence of that having taken place at both Crown Perth and Crown Melbourne revealed in the NSW Bergin Inquiry last year.Ī single-person police unit had been in place at the Perth casino, with its sole job being to assess the risks of junkets, but that was disbanded in the late 1990s. 'The casino has established a substantial junket trade which contributes significantly to casino revenue and subsequently to the amount of taxation paid to the state.'

The operator is the tour organiser and casinos around the world have become more and more competitive in their efforts to entice participants.Ī 1996 review of the Gaming and Wagering Commission Act stated: Much of the past week has been focused on the 2010 repeal of regulations that had required, in part, the GWC to approve all junket operators who wished to do business at Crown Perth.įor a quick bit of background, a junket is basically a tour group for high rollers. While those in the public and the media do not have access to all of the information and documents before the commission, from the evidence heard so far a few main themes have emerged. 'I've spent the last five weeks having enormous fun trawling through GWC agenda papers and if you believe that you believe in the tooth fairy,' the former WA Supreme Court judge said on Thursday. Hundreds of documents have been tendered as evidence, with the commission's chair, the Honourable Neville Owen (AO), best describing the process of wading through the sheer volume of pages in need of perusal.

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