Drug deals, loan sharks, and criminals: What these inspectors saw inside Crown Casino | Four Corners
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2021
- The gambling watchdog was meant to keep Crown Casino crime free. Five former inspectors tell Four Corners how it failed spectacularly.
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Australia's biggest casino, Crown Melbourne, has attracted the rich and powerful from the day it opened its doors.
It's also been a magnet for organised crime.
Money laundering and criminal activity have seen Crown's operations in Australia put under the microscope in multiple inquiries, exposing years of illegal conduct.
Crown is supposed to be subject to strict rules and regulations, so where was the authority in charge of keeping Crown in check?
Industry insiders with decades of first-hand experience are speaking for the first time about how the regulator allowed crime to flourish under its nose.
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Shut the joint down,it does not add any value to the community whatsoever
100%. We need to ban gambling all together. Get rid of casinos and pokies. They destroy lives and destabilise society.
Nothing wrong with Casinos.......State governments issue licences and the present state labor government under Andrew's is the most corrupt since the days of Tommy Bolt. Regulation is for a reason in all industries.
@@dennissmith5138 while i agree,the temptation for some have sunken their lives and savings thru that place,destroyed families and communities
@@njclsx4252 Nothing wrong with Casinos......Andrew's state labor government with corruption is the issue turning a blind eye on criminal Chinese high rollers for election $$$$$$$ by his appointed gaming regulator.
were so lucky to have this show on the ABC.
We are lucky to have the ABC and it needs to be defended and orotectected.
@@emptyemptiness8372 the liberals are always trying to either influence ABC or defund it
@@andobatista4207 The sitting government is always trying to influence the ABC*
Fixed it for you.
@@mytwosense9135 yeah, but it's only the lnp that tries to defund it.
for all our governments flaws, at least we have independent government funded media
I love that Kennet allowed that monstrosity to be built, cut funding to mental health facilities, the turned around and worked with beyond blue to stop critics from calling him out.
The Crown Casinos should be *immediately shut down* and James Packer jailed for incitement of criminal activities, such as money laudering.
Lol, then the regulators have no jobs.
Why shut it down, the government should just confiscate it or force it's sale to a private operator. Take all the revenue, keep all the jobs, clean up the junk.
@@mattrobinson195 Hang on! So your argument placed in a slightly different context is essentially; Even if we have a solution to lower crime rates we’re going to have to ignore them as it might threaten Police jobs?????
Brendon O’Connell covered this bloke a good 12 months ago….
@@realmoa At the *VERY* least, the casino should be shut down and the place be operated simply as a hotel/motel.
Well done to the inspectors speaking out
Digesting a story of this magnitude, from Australia, really just hammers home that greed runs the world, in accordance with the wishes of the greedy.
I'm exhausted. I don't even believe we deserve to be visiting other planets - our house is a rotten mess.
Darwin NT casino
Agree where killing our own country we don't deserve a new planet to allow scientists to destroy that one also
Money always wins!
Everyone is greedy. Your point is moot.
@@TerminusEst1982bull💩🤡🖕
Handballing responsibilities. Stonewalling. Obfuscation. Who instructed the gaming inspectors to focus on liquor inspection? Who is the person giving instructions/orders? Who is really in charge of the Gaming Commission? It should be independent and not affected by politics.
Also can we just take a moment to appreciate the dogged Andrew Wilkie? He's been on the right side of this and so much else since the start. He seems to be one of the few pillars of credibility among our politicians along with folks like Jacqui Lambie. (Don't agree with everything she says but I know she means what she says)
Wilke is a bit of a maverick but his heart is in the right place, lambe is being honeyed by the likes of one nation and the parlmer United party.
Steve Cannane is an incredible journalist. Top notch work as always. Disappointing that money can just control politics and the government like a puppet…
James doughlas packers is innocent done nothing wrong his control by bad people woman and worker trust ed . For me to look james was close to him and I fallow him from the day I know him ..if I am married him maybe I am his wife..I love him I know from the button of my heart and believe everything about him and around him..
good on these brave people. of course crown are going to deny everything... the wrong people know where they all live
Australia has such a huge problem with gambling and this corruption is a big part of why
I don't think its a problem.......Its a problem when you have a corrupt Victorian Premier.
@@dennissmith5138 Exactly
Cue the SportsBet ad..
@@m0rthaus Ive set my youtube settings to no gambling ads yet I still get gambling ads. Ive threatened legal action but that hasn't changed a thing. You have to ask yourself who are the real criminals!!
Another fantastic and legitimate report from Four Corners 👏
Was a good story......about the first time they have spent taxpayers money properly since they became a branch of the ALP.
Perfect example of why lobbying should be eliminated.
Lobbying is the cancer of politics
Lobbying is just a dressed up word for "corruption" or "peddling influence" or "pay to play".
Wonderful expose of deregulation not only in Australia but worldwide over decades. The bit of regulation with regard to casinos, corporations, developers etc. is so watered down and can be manipulated at any time to favour these entities makes the prospect of any reigning in of these reckless and all consuming people at the top (in government etc.) virtually impossible.
all I can do is never go to crown, teach my children not to go there, vote out the politicians that allow this to happen
You'll have to vote either Greens or independents, Liberal and Labor are both sadly core to the enablement of Crown.
I've already seen this edition, no need to view it again. But what it *does* illustrate is an *utter weakness* of regulatory bodies in Australia, in *ALL INDUSTRIES* to do the jobs they were intended to do.
Whenever I hear 'Royal Commission' I know what the outcome will be. As always in government they never put a commission in place without knowing the outcome in advance.
thats why the government had to be dragged kicking and screaming to a royal commission into the banking sector , then not act upon ,findings , A huge example of why we need a Federal ICAC
There are three outcomes to every Royal Commission, 1, Barristers make stupid amounts of money, 2, No one is made to take responsibility and 3, absolutely nothing changes
A piss take, at the average Aussie's expense!
Must be a reason NSW sees Crown unfit to hold a gambling license...
NSW uncovered the corruption in Victoria.......Victoria is the major problem.
Organised crime? Involved in a casino? Well I never!
The LOVE of money" is the root of all sorts of injurious things.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"
"how did it come to this"? lol
It's a casino and a conservative state government ffs, that's how.
What did you expect?
Labor has been in Government in Victoria for 16 of the last 20 years. it doesn't matter which Major Party is in Government, they both have incredibly close ties with crown and have received millions of $ in political donations. Under the Andrews Government specially around 2018 it almost felt as though Crown was the Government, Dan Andrews was just a symbolic head of state who would do everything they were told.
@@Petreon360 Yes I agree but blaming the people who have to tiptoe through the mine field rather than those who laid the mines is dumb.
@@coal_man "far left progressive"? lol
You have no idea what either of those terms mean.
@@coal_man Go clean your room .....Adults are talking
@@coal_man Brilliant retort ....
"That's the police's responsibility"........how about reporting it to Police then?
Buck stops with Andrews.......corrupt.
Marijuana possession gets you into jail as it's considered a gateway drug and hence illegal- so you cannot decide what to do with your body. Yet pokies and casinos are fine even though they attract criminals and desperate people with too little to lose or addicted to gambling. I am all for personal rights and freedom to do what you wish with your money and body but this needs more effective regulation.
Mate that's how politics work. Sadly in every country but especially in Australia. Imagine you found gold/oil/coal in your backyard and wanted to dig it up. You or I would have no rights to it, we couldn't touch it. Someone like Gina or someone else would step in and take your house away. She can't do that you think, I own it, I paid for it, I was born here my ancestors lived here long before... Doesn't matter.
Sure it's yours now, but when you donate millions upon millions of dollars to the politicians making the laws, it's not long before the laws changed or an "exemption" given for someone to take it from you.
Yea gambling almost took me out. I was so additicted a few years ago. Was out of control. The casinos everywere is all the same. Nz Thay just want our money even tho most ppl there are drug dealers or there ripping there family/work or someone close are getting ripped off of cash 4 them to be able to gamble. Had a big win early on in my gambling stint. Was a easy win. Made me worse. I chased the win and it was never guna happen to me again. But I went there every day and spent everything I had in my pocket. Gambling is shit and the casinos are jst a load of shit allowing drug dealers and ppl stealing from close ones. Sad but true. Thay rake in the $$$ so the government just sweep it under the carpet or do az lil az possible. All about that money.
@@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi Yes, sad but true. With unbridled capitalism and corruption every thing is for sale, even laws and the highest bidder will take it all, even the future of the coming generations. Sorry to hear your story.
@@sweirlsonsweirla547 I am glad you found the right way out of addiction. Hard to believe this is legal sometimes.
I've worked with Crown Perth a few years ago. Lasted all of 4 months. The sheer levels of bs, hypocrisy and dodgyness that I saw even in that short a time was gobsmacking.
I thought you were going to show the roast doves in the opening scene. Anyone remember that happening at the opening? For those who don't, Crown decided it was a good idea to release a heap of white doves at the same time they fired up the huge gas display out the front. Guess what happened.
:O
Really did that happen... I always loved those gas fire balls during winter, it really warms you up...
10 - 15 years of writing its own rules? yeah, everyone was getting a slice of this pie. how embarrassing
Ain't nobody going to mess with the Packers ........... no one .......
Except Ita.
Do they run Aus or something
@@whakaoriori9366 channel nine
You'd have to ask if after having reported say a drug deal or loan sharking to the casino (or your management) and being told it was a police matter, why you didn't just call the cops?
Money corrupts always .
Nice to see Obeid go down, though I dont expect Angus Taylor to be held to account anytime soon.
How has Catherine Myers, CEO of Liquor & Gambling Vic, kept her job? That’s the million dollar question. She’s the one person who has allowed all this to go on.
Money, bribery and corruption
She seems really dodgy. There’s so many of these lazy characters in politics who say “it’s not my issue”.
@@milld9345 According to her LinkedIn profile, she’s had the job for 9 years….when did Crown go bad?
If a company engages or tolerates all these criminal activity what exactly makes the politicians believe that company will pay fair share of taxes? Lol
Organised crime and money laundering a casino, who could've guessed?
It's the mission statement
"Organised crime and money laundering a casino, who could've guessed?" .. so clever, that's not the story. The story is that their is a gambling oversight department set up literally to ensure there's no organized crime and money laundering in the casino, and they have utterly failed - driven by their upper managements directives, intentionally, it seems.
Money and Power makes the world go round
Rich are always above the law
Only when state governments sleep with them.......Chairman Dan sleeps with them all $$$$$
This is a surprise how?
Crown Metropol when it opened had the best times there never gambled just had nice food swimming spa and massages
Are theyre nice escort/sex services catered there? Is it good?
Cancel the crown license immediately
this place looks awesome
The fish always rots from the head so true
Chairman Dan's head is as rotten as you can get.
$ 54 Billion dollars a year of takings from high rollers, that's an eye watering amount of money.
(of course they pay out a lot too)
I thought that too, but it's turnover not actual money spent. Still crazy either way.
As someone who worked in a federal government department that was an administrator and regulator, politics is an ever present policy - even if that policy over rides legislation. Our system is no less subsequent to corruption than any other when you have money telling politicians "We can help you get elected or we can help you look corrupt". As a consequence, corruption becomes a bedfellow, even if unintended.
You cant fix this issue with any political system on earth - You can only fix it with strong people and a smart electoral base. Good luck finding either.
@clubsnsw anything sound familiar here?
Ultimate culpability is ignored & not fully revealed or fully made to suffer, as is so common
This is why we need the ABC, and why Federal and State governments keep trying to cut their budget.
The ABC are fake news. However, for once. I’m glad they exposed Crown
Great idea hahaha... merge liquor and gaming
This is our last bit of inv journalism.. I'm surprised it didn't get stopped somehow to be honest
Agreed.
The fines are small on purpose, nobody would set a maximum 1 mill fine for a casino and believe it is enough to stop illegal or immoral activity. What complete joke. They think we're mugs ... and we are.
With all that was found, said and done, Crown Casino never lost their license.
It's not the casino It's MELBOURNE
Tonight’s episode brought to you by Star Casino and the NSW government.
And Jupiter's casino in Queensland
If not for NSW their would not have been a Royal Commission to uncover state labor's corruption......fantastic job by them.
Gladys done a good job forcing a Royal Commission onto the corrupt Andrews. Never seen him move so quick to call for a Royal Commission......
Crown Casino played the casino and resort dlc, now Tao Cheng and Brucie running the place
I only visit this casino because it's aesthetically pleasing to me. Our Tasmanian casinos are regular old boring buildings lol
Does he mean crown casino is biggest as a company or the Melbourne building in particular?
How did it come to this?
Um... Greed maybe?
But then again wtf do I know.
State labor under Chairman Dan.......was all there on four corners.
'gaming should be regulated federally' what a joke
Why isn't the AFP policing the VGCLR
How tje hell did they get away with this. I hope peopke went to jail
Ironic headline for this video, watchdog or lapdog? You can ask the same question of the Australian media including the ABC regarding Australian Government over the last 3 years...
2 years on ; what has changed ?
I just assumed that this is what all Casino's got up to 🤷♀️
I mean, what other purpose do they serve?
It's where organised crime plays with the government.
Seriously, international high rollers don't fly in to appreciate the garish carpet, tacky interior, glitzy stage shows and the employees squatting beside the dumpsters out in the back lane, having a ciggie!
Volume at max. Can't hear this. Might have been interesting. But can't hear it. Lol. Be well and prosper. ~Z~
Actions have consequences (normally) except when the players own the game.
Gotta have balls to talk so freely about it …
Outlaw all sorts of gambling.
The price of creating some jobs and generating tax is destroying many more lives, bringing corruption and money laundry and making a few animals very rich.
I personally have seen the horrible impact this human-made disaster has had on a few people close to me.
Muslims did the right thing by making it forbidden and worked for them. Why shouldn't we do the same?
Criminals+politicians = 💰 💰💰💰💰
Req all honest Australians to move to New Zealand
No good can come of a casino/gambling.
The Australian government deems Round Up as safe as table salt. This doesn't surprise me.
Public need to call an no confidence vote in the senate and it's entirety and switch the way our government operates from the very core as the system is collapsed and the political criminals that continue to disallow it's very Citizens from governing our government while we are held to standards and laws they seem to be immune from and demonstrate no accountability.. I love this land but hate this country and what it stands for... Shadows and lies in disguise
Hello from America! I truly love my Aussie brothers and sisters 💞 I've never been, but the videos of your beautiful country & lovely people make me wish to visit, TOMORROW 😘😘😘 Like you, I feel distressed about stories like this, no matter the subject matter! The East Timor story was a heartbreaking , unbelievable story💔 I pray that you and your beautiful family/country DON'T go the way of trump & his devoted ILK, trampling down LAWS & CIVIL RIGHTS ‼️ I LOVE YOU FOLKS. Take good care and God bless ❤️
This is just the way the world is
"Bad things happen when good people do nothing". the good people get sick of banging their head against a brick wall when those who could stop crime are the ones doing nothing. Who will vote for Daniel Andrews now?
Politician n business man n money.. What could go wrong!
Funny how the change happened during the short time of government with the coalition in power in Victoria.
Melbourne has been mafia heaven since 1985
Bad things happen when good people do nothing.... Priceless. They will never shut a casino down for money laundering... casinos make too much money for every one but the public.
Is that ow old house 🏡
Whatever became of Joan Kirner? Kerner?
Poor Joan got voted out in a landslide victory by Jeff Kennett after nearly sending Victoria into bankruptcy with experimental Socialist labor economics.......RIP Joan.
It came to this because government allowed it to come to this.
The Victorian liquor licence inspector don’t inspect country Victoria. What’s the difference
Why does this whole thing seem like a distraction from the big four's crimes?
Allowing money laundering for child sex trafficking rings and terrorist organisations to take place was rewarded with hundreds of billions in tax payers money last year .. nothing wrong with the Big 4 ask Scumo
revoke their licence, then laugh in their face when they come looking for the $200 million
is crown casino the same company as crown paint?
No, same company as Crown Jewels
Crown Lager .
Crown elevators
Crown forklifts
Dont think so mate
The Regulator - Name and Shame. Why do these people have the ability to hide? This is what’s wrong. Prosecution is required. Politicians are not above the law, or are they?
Is it now all hero’s weenie I stil sonic ashes suit
It's all about the money!! Packer Inc really runs Australia.
Lock em up
I think the whole money laundering in casinos is summed up in the revenue the Gov gets and their fear of losing such revenues, It would mean the Gov would have to come clean too and we all know that is not going to happen, ever...
Vancouver model
A regulator without teeth is nothing but a bark without the bite.
Kick backs, to all government parties
Chairman Dan $$$$$$ Lloyd's boy.
Close Crown Down
Not just the regulators, what about the big 4 auditors that give these slimeballs an air of credibility and honesty yet turn a blind eye to all their dodgy practices??? Same with the bank auditing, how can these banks be audited, given sign off and yet nobody picks up millions in illegal practices, money laundering, etc, etc?
It's time auditors were investigated.
Labor government , what do you expect?
ABC you should spend more of your time and the peoples money doing this sort of work.
The liberals don't allow for this kind of reporting crown donates to both major parties
@@haruhisuzumiya6650 Crown is a labor safe house in Victoria.......if not for NSW there is no Royal Commission.
@@dennissmith5138 interesting, but regardless, crown is no ally to either party, and people
@@haruhisuzumiya6650 Best you listen to Lloyd Williams and Daniel Andrews conversation on 4 Corners again.......criminal stuff.
@@haruhisuzumiya6650 Victorian Gaming under Daniel Andrews is corrupt......its all there.
when casions make political donations - its game over for cops ...its simple as that
👮♀️ love ❤️
To money launder at a casino the casino needs to be in on it, you cant just bring in dirty money and hope to walk away with some profits you have to know for a fact you will win - the other way it is laundered in a casino is directly through the casinos profits and into the casinos mob owner pockets
The casino takes a minor cut and then turns a blind eye. More importantly there's no regulators or if there were they turned a blind eye as well.
Both Labor & Liberal discust me they should carry the can, diong nothing about this.
Turf
Since the casino opened the community is being sucked dry of 💰 that used to be spent in the community and local businesses! Get rid of pokies and the casino and the government would be reaping the benefits by getting more tax, more jobs and less poverty they need to help with!
You can shut the casinos without pulling pokies from pubs and shafting them for no reason.
Gambling is part of Australian culture and they love a punt, doubt they will spend saturday afternoons doing gardening no time soon......Corrupt Victorian state labor gaming regulators are the problem.
@@sumbigdumkunt pubs and clubs make mega millions from pokies, which is sucked out of the pockets of the poor, lonely, old & addicted! Pubs are swimming in 💰 they got from the misery of their customers 😡
@@dennissmith5138 not necessarily, we don’t need the amount of pokies and casino games that we have, if we removed 50% that would correlate to mega millions staying in the wallets of the community and therefore being spent in small businesses and the like which would improve the community mega fold!!!
@@thearmchairjournalist566 clubs maybe but most local pubs that I go to aren’t swimming in money like Scroog McDuck. A lot of the money made goes into staffing these areas and making sure security is prim proper so people can’t steal from the machines and all sorts of stuff. They don’t pay for themselves in the first 2 years. For some pubs it’s a gamble to install them. Yes, pun intended.
But I also see what you mean. In really impoverished areas they should tone them down but at the same time, a gambling habit is better than a drug habit
I worked private security at this shit hole. Not "crown security". Independent contractor. Red carpet/ private events. The everyday running of this place is disgusting. It's good that stories are coming out. But it just the tip of the iceberg.