Crown Casino Calls for Investigation of Leaked Video of Cash Brick

Video footage showing dozens of "bricks" of $50 and $100 bills (worth hundreds of thousands of dollars) being casually handed out of shopping bags in a room of high rollers at Melbourne's Crown Casino has sparked new calls for a royal commission into alleged crimes at the casino.

The footage, captured by Crown surveillance cameras, shows an unknown man handing over hundreds of thousands of dollars in Australian currency in Crown's Sun City Junket Room. He is waiting as he pulls money wrapped in a rubber band from a freezer shopping bag and appears to be talking to a friend or casino staff member while it is exchanged for expensive casino chips.Click here to investigate for a twist of intrigue and discovery!

Sun City is a Macau-based gambling tour company that brings wealthy Chinese gamblers to Australian casinos. Crown has a dedicated gaming room.

The video, leaked by three Victorian gambling inspectors who became whistleblowers, was released by Andrew Wilkie, an independent Clark MP who has repeatedly called for a royal commission of inquiry into casinos.

"People probably think that everything that goes on in the casinos is clean. 'I'm not sure what they're talking about,' one of the whistleblowers said in the big-annuaire.com. 'But in reality it's a mess.

The Crown's Sun City Room is designed specifically for people coming from overseas.

The Sun City Room faced closure by the Victorian Gaming and Liquor Control Commission in 2017 due to alleged ties to organized crime, but it is still open. According to the whistleblower, the casino's high rollers were never challenged by casino staff.

"Anyone can walk into a casino with a lot of money and launder it: ...... Nobody really cares.

They can do whatever they want." They can bring anyone into the casino and bring as much money as they want.

According to the whistleblower, the reduced presence of the Victoria State Police within the casino has allowed suspected criminals to launder money with impunity.

Wilkie is calling for the establishment of a royal commission against Crown, saying the footage follows previous allegations of money laundering, machine tampering, drug trafficking, and domestic violence at the casino. Crown is also accused of violating immigration laws by illegally bringing people into Australia to gamble.

Wilkie said, "For years we have been told about the shocking crimes that occurred at Crown, and now we have new footage to back up these claims.

'According to the inspector who provided these videos, countless large sums of money are regularly laundered at Crown. Crown can no longer claim that this is not happening. This leaked version was captured using Crown's own surveillance cameras."

Wilkie said that allegations of fraud at Crown can only occur and continue to occur if the casino is convinced that it has political cover and numerous agencies fail to do their jobs.

This crisis at the Crown is multi-national, multi-regional, and multi-agency." It represents a catastrophic failure by the major political parties, the Victorian Gambling and Liquor Control Commission, Victoria Police, the Australian Federal Police, the Border Force, and the Australian Centre for Trade Reporting and Analysis (Austrac)."

Wilkie attempted to establish a royal commission on the Crown in July this year, but it was rejected by both Labor and the Coalition. A motion presented to Parliament on Tuesday was also rejected by the House of Commons.

The video shows a faceless man with a shopping freezer bag unloading "bricks" of $50 and $100 bills bundled with rubber bands. A casino employee is shown taking the money and counting it in a machine. The cashier is shown calculating on a calculator and handing the man a large casino tip. The man leans casually against the counter and appears to be talking to a friend or casino staff member while the transaction is being processed.

At several points in the video, the surveillance camera swivels to reveal other transactions taking place and zooms in to focus on the money and chips on the counter.

'So much money, where did it come from?' says the whistleblower. 'If it was legal, why didn't they deposit it in a bank?

The whistleblower claims that the same gambler returned to the same room a few weeks later and deposited an even larger sum.

The whistleblower claims that such large amounts of cash deposited at the casino are either put into a bank account or exchanged for high-value chips, which are later cashed in: "So the funds are wiped out.

This happens every week. It's happening every week, and reports are being made about it, but it's still going on.

Wilkie also revealed an interview with a limousine driver at the Crown Casino, who claimed that high rollers are flown by private jet to Australia, bypass customs checks, and go straight to the casino. The high rollers are allegedly able to get illegal drugs, prostitutes, and basically anything else they demand.

No matter what they demand, the answer is "yes." No questions asked. There is no "no" for the Crown; they do whatever the VIPs ask them to do. Legal or illegal. It doesn't matter."

Crown is also willing to cover up illegal activities.

He says: "They're not worried about crime. They're not worried about crime." They want people to come to the casino, drink too much, take whatever drugs they want, and lose their money."

A Crown Casino spokesperson said the allegations are unfounded and that Crown Casino has complied with legal and regulatory requirements.

"Crown has a comprehensive anti-money laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CTF) program, which has been and continues to be subject to ongoing regulatory oversight by Austrac.

In accordance with its regulatory obligations, Crown proactively provides a variety of information, including reporting all transactions in excess of $10,000, directing offshore transfers, and reporting suspicious transactions of any amount."

Last year, Crown's sixth licensing review recommended that Crown conduct a "robust review (with outside assistance) of its relevant controls" to ensure that anti-money laundering risks are addressed.

A casino spokesperson said Crown will continue to work with the Victorian Gambling and Liquor Control Commission to address the recommendations from the sixth review.

Attorney General Christian Porter said the federal government has referred allegations involving Crown and federal agencies to the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity. Porter said ACLEI has the same powers as the Royal Commission, including the ability to hold hearings and compel evidence, and is the most appropriate body for any investigation.

Porter said ACLEI would inform other authorities if it found illegal activity during its investigations that had nothing to do with the federal agency.

Porter said, "ACLEI must pass that evidence on to the relevant state or federal law enforcement agency or to the prosecuting authorities."

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